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52 | September 12, 2019 | The Northbrook tower sports
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Northbrook Hockey holds event to
help need-based hockey families
Michal Dwojak, Sports Editor
Chance played a role
in Jim Cloud becoming
involved with Northbrook
Hockey’s 15th Annual
Northbrook Hockey
Scholarship Classic.
The avid golfer
couldn’t pass up an opportunity
to golf another
round last October and
didn’t know much about
the event when he decided
to join the group
for a chilly round of golf.
What he didn’t expect he
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would become a part of
the hockey organization’s
annual way of keeping
hockey in the lives of
those who can’t afford
the sport. Now, before the
2019 version of the event,
Cloud put him organizing
skills to use as he’s
helped prepare the event
for something he believes
is important.
“Hockey is not inexpensive
to play between
the fees and the equipment
and the travel,”
Cloud said. “There are
people in the are who
need a little help.”
This year’s version of
the event will take place
Sept. 20 at Sportsman’s
Country Club with lunch,
contests and an auction
set to take place for a fun
day. There are different
prizes that contestants
can win, but at the end of
the day, Cloud and rest of
the Northbrook Hockey
organization know the
fun will be worth the benefits
of the Friday.
All the money raised
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will go to need-based
families who need help to
continue playing hockey.
There are over 250 skaters
involved with the
organization and while
the amount of families
who are impacted by the
money raised changes
each year based on the
total raised, the results
remain the same for Brad
Walker, president of the
Northbrook Bluehawks,
who’s been involved with
the event for as long as he
could remember.
“It’s great,” Walker
said of the event. “Kids
go down the ice and fall
in love with the sport and
maybe the expense can’t
match up with what’s going
on in their personal
lives. To be able to help
them continue to love the
sport and hang out with
their friends, it’s means
a ton to the Northbrook
hockey league, to the
families and the kids that
are able to continue it.”
Registration starts at
11:45 a.m. for the fourperson
scramble where
the entry fee will be $100
per person. The shotgun
contest will start at 12:45
p.m. An auction will follow
the golf starting at
approximately 5:15 p.m.
This year’s auction includes
a different variety
of prizes, including
a 2016 Heisman football,
suite for a Chicago
Wolves hockey game,
golf foursome at Sunset
Ridge Country Club, Chicago
Cubs Jon Lester’s
baseball glove, a suite for
two for a Chicago Blackhawks
game, a “Day as
a Page” with State Representative
John Carroll
in Springfield, four
Northbrook and North Shore area golfers will get a
chance to support members of the Northbrook Hockey
community with their annual golf outing and auction.
Photo submitted
Cubs tickets for a game
in 2020, a signed Lester
baseball, Greg Maddux
and Dick Butkus autographs
for more.
Those interested in
more information of the
event can visit northbrookbluehawks.org/golf
and reach cloud at jimcloud46@gmail.com
and
(616) 822-3553.
While Cloud has enjoyed
the process of organizing
the event, the benefits
outweigh everything
else. What started as a
way to get out for another
round of golf turned into
an important day for not
only the families Northbrook
Hockey will be
helping, but also all those
who have helped out to
make all of those dreams
a reality.
“It’s huge,” Cloud said.
“This is an area that typically
you would think
people could afford this
easily but there are families
through divorce, loss
of job can’t afford it. The
demand is there.”