Well in just a few days the World Junior Hockey Championships open in Saskatoon. Canada's first game will be on December 26 up against Latvia. I decided to volunteer for the games and was chosen to work on the media committee. This kind of takes me back some thirty years to my old days as a play by play announcer with Prince George, Regina and Brandon.
Officially I am listed as a media liason person and the funny thing is no one really knows what that means and what all the work will entail. I will be working with TSN, ESPN and the Fan Radio Network at the games but there is many more than that coming as far as media is concerned. In fact I think I heard that there was something like 450 accredited media people coming to these games. It is a huge event that takes work from a lot of people to pull it off.
Included in that of course is all the foreign media including Russia, Sweden, Finland and others. It should be an interesting time and I am looking forward to it.
I am fortunate as I only have two shifts while Jennifer is here, home from Ottawa, and then the rest of my shifts including four days in a row come after New Years Day when she will return to University. Her visit will be much too short this year but it is good to have her back home and have all of us together again. So glad that Tim is working in Saskatoon and not in Edmonton anymore. It is nice to be able to see him on a regular basis.
So its Christmas first, then the hockey championships and what should be an interesting time.
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