Riverside putting out call for gently used hockey equipment
Over the years Prince Albert’s Riverside Public School has been putting together their own hockey team as part of extra-curricular activities for students in grades five to eight.
Matt Pelerine, a mentor at the school, said the program does a combination of things including taking the students to check out Carlton Comprehensive High School’s hockey program.
“Primarily we’ll go up and work with the grade nine/ten program at Carlton. Once a week we’ll go up and practice with them and [Riverside students] will run through the same drills the nines/tens will do. Ideally it sets it up that when they graduate from [Riverside] and if they move on to Carlton they can participate in the hockey program there,” he said.
Pelerine said they like to start students in the program around grade five or six so students get familiar with the program and being on the ice.