Northwest Junior Hockey League making donations to the High Level Fire Department and the High Level Victim Services Unit. Photo Credit: Town of High Level

By Shane Clausing

NWJHL giving back

Northwest Junior Hockey League teams giving back to High Level

Feb 13, 2020 | 2:09 PM

The Northwest Junior Hockey League and its teams are giving back to the town of High Level.

This past September, the league organized exhibition games and hockey camps in the community. It’s something the league does annually across the Peace Region to get some buzz going just before the season begins.

However, this year was more unique than others. Many residents of the town had just finished a whirlwind summer that saw the town’s residents forced to leave their homes due to raging wildfires that were in the area and coming towards the town.

While the fires didn’t hit the town, many people in the surrounding area were affected.

The Sundown Oilfield Sexsmith Vipers, County of Grande Prairie JDA Kings, North Peace Navigators and the Fairview Flyers in conjunction with the NWJHL and it’s other teams got together and wanted to give back and help the community.

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“Back in September, we were in High Level to do an exhibition series. We had four teams from the Northwest Junior Hockey League come up there,” said Kelly Wilson, the President and General Manager of the Sundown Oilfield Services Sexsmith Vipers.

Between the four teams up in the town, the coaches would run hockey camps for players in the area. 100 kids were signed up and registered in the camps.

“What happened was we had some money left over and our whole intent was to give whatever money that was left over back to the community,” said Wilson.

Together the teams and league was able to raise $5000. $2500 would be donated to the High Level Fire Department and $2500 would be donated to the High Level Victim Services Unit.

The president of the league is from the High Level area and wanted to do something to help.

“Me and the president were chatting one day about possibly doing something for the community that had all the fires. So that’s kind of where it came from,” said Wilson.

The league is hoping that they’ll be able to do more good deeds like this in the coming years.