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Let the games begin
The 2014 David Thompson Secondary School/RCMP Rotary Challenge Cup starts this week.
This challenge is taken seriously by the RCMP and for the last three years the RCMP failed to bring home the cup to the detachment where it belongs.
We lost the cup in the best of three losing 3-2 in the final game against the Bruins last year. Some changes had to be made after the loss. This year we requested Cpl. Grant Simpson, our goaltender, to work closer with his son Blake and take some lessons from him. Like Roberto Luongo, Grant is great in the regular season but tends to choke in the playoffs.
As you can see from the photographs we decided to do some off-season training. I just finished 15 reps of 600 pounds bench press and needed spotters at the end. I informed the members that any steroids seized can be taken under the direction of our first aid expert, Cst. Harper.
As you can see from the photograph, they seem to be working for Michaud. Cst. Myers was advised to work on his cardio endurance and has put in a great deal of time on the running board. A total of $5,000 was spent to build a gym at the detachment and the officer’s time at Tim Hortons with the exception of myself has been restricted.
I was able to contact staffing and made a request for a quality floor hockey type officer and happy to report that a new constable from Regina will be in the line-up in early March. We have also granted Raven (Rockies) Special Constable status and he will be included in our line-up.
Students may whine at this but I have authority to designate Special Constable status to individuals. Our scouts have reported that the quality of students capable of playing floor hockey this year at DTSS is not as strong as in previous years. The report actually states “pretty pathetic.”
We have prepared and we are determined to bring the cup home. In fact, we are arranging to have the cup presented to us at the DTSS graduation ceremonies so they can hang their heads in shame in front of their parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and siblings.
Yours in Floor Hockey…
S/Sgt. Marko Shehovac
