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Atom Broncos use grant money for team and community

The Humboldt Atom South Raging Broncos received a big boost for this season as they were the recipients of $1,000 through the Scotiabank Community Hockey Sponsorship Program.
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The Humboldt Atom South Raging Broncos were the recipients of $1,000 from the Humboldt Scotiabank as part of their Scotiabank Community Hockey Sponsorship Program. The Broncos intend to use some of the money for some programming for the team but have pledged to use the money to sponsor a family through the Kinettes Adopt A Family Program. Pictured (L to R) Back Row: Back row Lee Gross, Kevin Brooks and Ryan Nordick. Middle Row: George Armstrong, Brady Holtvogt, Culyer Brooks, Abigail Martin, Jackson Miller, James Armstrong, Bruce Green and Mason Bunko. Front Row: Tristan Nordick, Callum Molsberry, Jadyn Cardinal, Ian Stock and Jordice Molsberry. photo courtesy of Lorrie Bunko

The Humboldt Atom South Raging Broncos received a big boost for this season as they were the recipients of $1,000 through the Scotiabank Community Hockey Sponsorship Program.

Scotiabank provides the scholarship to a team or hockey association at each of the more than 1,000 branches across the country, with the Broncos being awarded the scholarship after winning a draw that featured each of the teams that opened an account with the Humboldt Scotiabank.

Humboldt Scotiabank Small Business Advisor, Lee Gross, says that the scholarship is an important way for Scotiabank to build connections with people through hockey.

“You see Scotiabank’s ads around NHL games all the time and that’s one of the areas that they’ve really been trying to focus… so it’s really important for Scotiabank just in general to connect with people through hockey and through community hockey especially and it’s just one of the ways we’re trying to give back to the community.”

Broncos team manager, Lorrie Bunko, says the team was really happy to receive the scholarship and says their plans for the money is to use it to provide additional programming for the kids, but they are still working through the specifics of exactly what programming they are going to provide.

The team has also pledged to use a portion of the money to benefit the Kinettes Adopt A Family Program, which was great to see, says Gross.

“That’s the whole reason we do it so that these kids that are on these hockey teams can grow as people and seeing them give back to other people in the community… will help them grow a lot too.”

Bunko says there were a number of organizations that the team could choose from but they ultimately settled on the Adopt A Family Program because it was a good way to show the players that there are children and families who are less fortunate than themselves.

“It shows the kids about community involvement, raising awareness about other people’s needs in the community and that we all have to help one another out, like Scotiabank helped their team out the kids are now going to be able to turn around and help out somebody else. So it’s good to instill that in kids, especially when they’re younger.”

The team is not going to stop at just donating to the Adopt A Family Program, says Bunko, who notes that they are also planning to have the kids spend the winter shoveling people’s driveways.

“We have a lot of people who can’t get out to shovel their driveways and we want the kids to do some manual volunteer work and become snow angels and do a good deed and put smiles on people’s faces.”

Bunko would like to thank the Scotiabank for providing them with the funding, saying the team is very appreciative of the grant and they are very appreciative that Scotiabank recognizes community hockey.