(PALMERSTON, ON) – Members of the Wellington County Ontario Provincial Police (OPP) participated in the 2nd Annual – Kate McNally Memorial MADD (Mothers Against Drunk Driving) hockey game on February 18, 2014. The event took place at the Palmerston and District Community Centre with a puck drop at 7:00 p.m. followed by a chuck the puck competition, door prizes and static displays.
Members from the three Detachments in Wellington County made up the OPP team which took on the highly skilled male and female students from the Norwell District Secondary School. The players were cheered on by excited fans which consisted of fellow classmates, parents, officers as well as local residents, fire fighters and dignitaries. The game was officiated by Scott Driscoll, a National Hockey League Linesman and P/C Steve Smith, a School Resource Officer at the Centre Wellington High School in Fergus.
The event, which was held in honour of Kate McNally, a former Norwell District Secondary School student that was killed four years ago by a driver that was drinking, raised $1269.25 in support of MADD Wellington County.
The Wellington County OPP along with MADD Wellington County, Kate’s family and friends and students from the Norwell District Secondary School would like to thank everyone that contributed to making the event a huge success for a second year in a row.