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A1 Erin Fuchs Leah Bragg Shai Rockabar 306-741-5160 306-741-2622 306-741-4963 Erin Fuchs Royal LePage Formula 1 Leah Bragg Royal LePage Formula 1 Shai Rockabar REALTOR® ® Erin Fuchs REALTOR Leah Bragg REALTOR® Shai Rockabar Real Estate Thursday, July 12, 2018 swbooster.com Serving Southwest Saskatchewan HELPING YOU IS WHAT WE DO™ 41309809 306-773-7527 • royallepage.ca/formula1 COMMUNITY Headed to the Hall of Fame STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER Shaunavon’s Hayley Wickenheiser, accompanied by friends and family, was inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame on July 7 in Swift Current. The 2018 Saskatch- rent coach Larry Johnson, ute to the 16 people who lost Hicke, Hayley Wickenheiser ated in 2012. The Saskatch- ewan Hockey Hall of Fame and Swift Current volun- their lives in that crash, as Builder: John Kelly Lovering ewan Hockey Hall of Fame is induction banquet on July teer extraordinaire Dennis well as the four Swift Current Official: Lyle Wilhelm located in the northwest cor- 7 was an incredible celebra- Loeppky. Broncos who died in the 1986 Grassroots: Larry Johnson, ner of the Innovation Credit tion of hockey in the province The induction banquet also crash, would be honoured Dennis Loeppky Union iplex in Swift Current. with a decidedly Southwest paid tribute to the victims of with bricks on the Founders Team: 1987-88 Notre Dame A feature story on Dennis flavour. the Humboldt Broncos bus Wall of Fame. Hounds. Loeppky can be found on page Among the inductees were crash and it was announced The full list of 2018 The 2018 Class marked 2. Read future editions of the Shaunavon’s Hayley Wicken- that a large donation would inductees were: the seventh induction class Southwest Booster for features heiser, long-time Swift Cur- allow the SHHOF to pay trib- Players: Ron Delorme, Bill since the SHHOF was cre- on Johnson and Wickenheiser A2 SOUTHWEST BOOSTERX THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018 2 COMMUNITY 2 Loeppky inducted into the THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018 Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame STEVEN MAH SOUTHWEST BOOSTER For over 50 years Dennis Loeppky was a xture at Swift Current Broncos games at the Innovation Credit Union iplex. It is only tting that he will now be honoured in two di erent hall of fames in the same contact us building, after he was inducted into the Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame on • Phone: 306-773-9321 Saturday. • Fax: 306-773-9136 “It’s pretty heart-warming I guess,” • 30 4th Avenue NW said Loeppky’s nephew, Rob Myers. “It Swift Current, SK, S9H 0T5 is very deserving. He spent a lot of time in there, not only with the Broncos, but • www.swbooster.com the Legionnaires and minor hockey, old- timers hockey. He spent a lot of hours in advertising sales that rink.” “He was just a very personable guy, Kara Stephanson, very happy-go-lucky, not a mean bone in his body. Just a great, great man,” said STEVEN MAH/SOUTHWEST BOOSTER sales manager, 306-770-2223 Don Hornung, who spent 10 seasons in The family of the late Dennis Loeppky, including wife Barb (second from left) and [email protected] the box with Loeppky. daughter Denise (second from right), were on hand to accept his induction into the “He volunteered for a lot of things. Saskatchewan Hockey Hall of Fame on July 7. Melissa Richardson, sales, He was always involved in whatever he 306-770-2226 could lend a hand with,” said Myers, who community builder [email protected] noted that Loeppky’s contributions ex- category.” tended to the Swift Current Ag & Ex and Myers worked with Jerry Butterworth, sales, the Soap Box Races. “ e list just goes on his uncle Dennis in the 306-770-2227 and on and on with where he would lend penalty box for 24 years [email protected] a hand if a hand needed to be lended.” after getting his start “He just loved people and liked being during the 1993 WHL newsroom out there with everybody. He just wanted championship season. to be around people and help wherever “I was just at a Bron- Scott Anderson, editor, he could,” added Hornung. cos game one night and 306-770-2224 [email protected] Loeppky was inducted into the SHHOF they were short a guy in the Grassroots category after a life- in the penalty box. He Steven Mah, sports reporter, time of service, which began in 1967 at grabbed me to go swing 306-770-2225 the brand new Centennial Civic Centre the penalty gate that [email protected] selling programs. night and the rest is “Dennis volunteered for the Broncos history. 25 years later I commercial print for 50 years running the scoreboard and am still doing it.” the penalty box for most of those years,” e penalty box area Kara Stephanson, explained Swift Current Broncos Dir- in the Western Hockey 306-770-2223, ector of Business Operations Dianne League has been known [email protected] Sletten. “He managed that area for us, to get a little bit out of so found all the workers, trained them control at times. classi eds and scheduled them. Having someone “He wasn’t a small that takes that on for the organization guy at one time either. Classifi eds 1-306-773-9321 is huge. It was one less thing to have to He would take the bull worry about on game nights.” by the horns too. ere Fax: 306-773-9136 Loeppky passed away in April of 2017. was times where the classifi [email protected] “It means a lot to the family to have other guys running the Dennis Loeppky Dennis inducted into the Saskatchewan box, they couldn’t do circulation Hockey Hall of Fame,” said his wife Barb. much either. He would take the bull by odd time you had to give him a little 306-773-9321 “Dennis’s life revolved around hockey, the horns when it needed to be,” said slap on the leg and say ‘Dennis start the as did ours. Everything including family Myers. clock,’ laughed Hornung. “He was just a regional functions, appointments, and birthdays “Dennis liked to people watch and the great, great all-around guy.” managers were scheduled around hockey games. Michael J. Hertz, Senior Vice He was extremely proud of his involve- President & Group Publisher ment with hockey and it showed in all other aspects of his life as well as ours.” “It is an honour and privilege for my dad to be recognized for something he loved doing so much,” added his daugh- ter Denise. Funded by the Government of Canada “Dennis was a character,” noted Sletten. “He liked to tease the girls in the BRING YOUR VINTAGE store and always came in with a smile. TRACTORS, CARS, TRUCKS, His annual baking of a huge carrot cake AND STATIONARY ENGINES! Klassen for the o ce at the start of the hockey season was something we looked for- SUNDAY, JULY 22nd Autobody Ltd. ward to. He would do anything he could Expert collision repair, paint to help the Broncos and volunteered for 1:00-5:00pm and bodywork service many of our events as well, selling tickets Call Hank the Hitman Mail Registration Number: 005950104 or helped wherever he was needed.” Loeppky was inducted into the Swift He’ll straighten you out! Current Broncos Hall of Fame in Octo- The Southwest Booster is ber of 2017 during a pregame ceremony. published by Swift Current “He is missed very much,” said Sletten. 306.773.5901 Holdings Ltd. Partnership, an affi liated company to ALTA “We were proud to induct him into our Newspaper Group LP Hall of Fame this past year as the rst volunteer to be recognized and are Kinetic Exhibition Park honoured to sponsor him into the Sas- www.klassenautobody.com katchewan Hockey Hall of Fame in the Dennis 306-778-6354 Cliff 306-773-8470 730 CHEADLE ST. W•SWIFT CURRENT A3 SOUTHWEST BOOSTERX THURSDAY, JULY 12, 2018 3 Summer Reading Club launches at the Swift Current Library An excited group of children The program runs for the two to five. This story-time pro- A special event will be held August 2 - LEGO and StikBot noisily settled in for an after- next six Thursday’s until Au- gram includes books, rhyme,s July 19 when the Saskatchewan Stop-Motion Animation. noon of activities at the July gust 16 at the Library starting finger plays, crafts and puppet Science Centre will present August 9 - LED Butterfly 5 launch of the TD Summer at 2 p.m. shows. GO! Science. This afternoon Lanterns. Reading Club at the Swift Cur- The TD Summer Reading For the older set, the Maker is geared towards children in August 16 - Read to a Don- rent Library. Club is aimed at children aged Kids’ Club meets at 2 p.m. on Kindergarten to Grade 6, and key, and play with Sphero Bots. 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