The second annual “Pink the Rink” fundraiser is approaching. On Nov. 4, it will be no ordinary hockey game against Colorado School of Mines. The intramural club hockey team is hosting a fundraiser with all proceeds going to Saint Mary’s Cancer Survivorship Program. The hockey stands will be filled with pink shirts and jerseys to show support.
Before the actual face-off, there will be a fundraiser Thursday, Nov. 2 at Warehouse25sixty-five. Three local bands will be performing including Fox and the Hound, Will Whalen and Bicycle Annie from 8-11 p.m.
“The event will be for us to collect donations, spread the word about Pink the Rink…an event we created to sell t-shirts and raffle tickets,” Manager of Club Sports Reese Kegans said.
The raffle is for the pink jerseys the players will be wearing during Pink the Rink.
Kegans also said volunteers from Saint Mary’s, where all proceeds from the fundraiser are directed to, will commute students from CMU to Warehouse25sixty-five. Once there, students can get a bite to eat as well as meet and greet with the hockey team. “PAC is going to be pushing our event, so it will be more of a night for kids to come in, drop donations [and] buy t-shirts,” Kegans said.
The Glacier Ice Arena will have a section wrapped pink for cancer patients and survivors including a wheelchair accessible area to watch the game.
“We do a nice honorary puck drop before the game starts,” Kegans said.
Last year, the puck drop included two cancer survivors and Grand Junction Mayor Rick Taggart.
Various sponsors are involved with the fundraiser: Pavilion Imaging, SCI Construction, US Bank and Club Sports.
The only concern about the event is space, “…we can only fit a thousand people in Glacier Ice Arena for capacity reasons. After that we have to have people stand outside the arena and look through the glass,” Kegans said.
