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Congratulations Jack Ambrosino |
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The North York Knights would like to congratulate Jack
Ambrosino as he competes this weekend in the Canadian
Tire NHL Junior Skills National Championship.
Jack
entered a contest sponsored by the Canadian Tire Hockey
School and won a chance to compete in this Canadian Tire
sponsored event. Jack will be competing against 10
finalists in the Atom division. Jack will also
enjoy the NHL skills competition as well as the NHL All
Star game.
From everyone at the North York Knights
- GOOD LUCK JACK! |
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Message from the President of the North York Knights
Hockey Association - Mike Wren |
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Potential City of Toronto Work
Stoppage - Arenas
As everyone who follows the local news will be aware,
the City and its outside union workers, represented by
Local 416, will be without a contract as of Sunday,
February 5th, 2012. As of that date the City will
be in a position to initiate a lockout of its outside
workers and the Union will be in a position to strike.
The City workers represented by Local 416 include the
maintenance staff at all of the City owned arenas at
which the Knights house league and Select games and
practices take place. In addition to operating the
Zambonis and maintaining the ice condition the City
workers are also responsible for operating and
maintaining the refrigeration plants at each arena.
The latest reports would indicate that the City and the
Union are still 'at the table' speaking with one another
and that some progress is being made, and that it
appears likely that a strike or lock out would not
actually commence next Monday, but rather perhaps
several weeks after that date. The fact remains,
however, that in the event of a lock out or strike, the
arenas may or may not remain open and operated by City
management and that accordingly all of the Knights' ice
permits after February 5th may be in jeopardy until a
new contract settlement is negotiated. The NYHL
and GTHL are working on various contingency plans in the
event a lockout or strike occurs. The GTHL
released a
statement on the issue last week.
The Knights will do our best to
disseminate information as it is made available to us,
both by way of emails to our convenors (and through them
to your children's coaches) and by updates posted to
this website. For the present we
would ask that all convenors, coaches and parents check
your emails regularly for announcements (and also follow
the story in local media, which may well receive
information on the negotiations in advance of GTHL).
The Knights remain committed to delivering our hockey
programs with as little disruption to our families as
possible and we will do whatever we can to cooperate
with both the City and its outside workers to achieve
that objective. |
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