Kosior Family Needs Your Help to Get to London
Dodge and the Canadian Hockey Leauge want to say thank you and celebrate the commitment and dedication made by 700 billet families across Canada that help raise over 1,000 CHL players each year. To that end, the league and car-maker started a new contest to recognize the top billet families among the WHL, OHL and QMJHL.
This year, one of our own Regina billet families have passed into the semi-finals of the Dodge Family All-Stars Contest. Wayne and Joanne Kosior, along with their son Landon, are the billets of Pats defenceman Griffin Mumby who is in his second year playing in the WHL. The Kosiors started billeting five years ago with the hope an older “billet brother” could be a good role model for then six year old Landon. You can read their story at the Dodge Family All-Stars Contest website.
At this stage of the contest, the Kosior family needs the help of Pats fans everywhere to help them move to the finals. Cast your vote for them to help them become the finalist from the WHL and win a trip to the 2014 MasterCard Memorial Cup in London, Ontario. If Wayne, Joanne and Landon win the whole thing, they’ll bring home a new Dodge Caravan!
There’s a bonus to fans for voting as well as a lucky fan could win Pats Season Tickets for the 2014-15 Regular Season.
Vote Here: http://dodgefamilyallstars.com/billet-families#400
CTV Feature on the Kosior Family: http://regina.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=302846
More information about billeting players:
Billeting is a vital and often overlooked aspect of the Canadian Hockey League (CHL) experience. As a Billet, special people open their homes and hearts to our players to provide a healthy, happy nurturing environment. The success of a good match impacts the player on and off the ice even long after his playing days in the CHL are over.
Each team carefully evaluates Billet applications and take their utmost care to ensure the players are placed in environments that are conducive to care, understanding and safety.
Teams ask that Billets treat players like any other member of their family. It is important that he respects the rules of his host family and the host family respects the rules of the hockey club. The values and principles for success that are essential to become a member of the CHL team will be demanded at the rink, in the home, in the community and in school. (from dodgefamilyallstars.com)
