As you will see, GMHA Registration for 2012-13 hockey season is now available. All three of my kids are now registered!!!! Simply go to www.georginahockey.com and click on the link to the left “2012/2013 Registration” and follow the cues to register your son/daughter for the upcoming hockey season. Registration is $600 per player and $345 for hockey school players. If you have any questions about the process please contact Katera Mahussier, GMHA Administrator, mahussier@rogers.com

Why Did Registration go up?

We increased registration by $20 per player this year. We are introducting a fundraising inititative this year whereby once your account is paid in full you will receive a Quick Pizza Coupon Booklet. These booklets sell for $20 each and are redeemable at either the Keswick or Sutton location. The booklets have coupons for free pizzas among other discounts and are valid from June 2012-September 2013. If you have three players registered like myself, you will receive three coupon booklets once your registration is paid in full.

Each season we see an increase in our ice rental cost. This is one of the biggest expenses GMHA has over the season. We saw a 3% increase in January 2012 and will see an additional 3% in January 2013. Our goal is to keep hockey affordable to all in Georgina; but we also must ensure that we are collecting enough registration money to cover our expenses, especially when we see increases mid-season. The Quick Pizza booklets are one fundraising initiative and we will be looking at more throughout the year.

Why do I need to Register now?

We must get players registered now so that we can order our jerseys for REP and HL by early July. If we don’t have a good estimate of how many kids are going to be playing in a given division; we may not order enough jerseys!! Surprisingly, these jerseys do not just “appear” in September!!!!

Secondly, most REP teams are looking at going into an early bird tournament in early September. For this to happen you need an approved roster from OMHA. We must have all the players registered before we send the roster to OMHA for approval and you can imagine that we are not the only centre doing this. Register now.

If I register in July and pay in July do I pay the late fee?

Yes you will pay the late fee!! As per above, we must know our registration numbers by June 30 so that jerseys can be ordered, sponsors for those jerseys secured and ice times scheduled. Not knowing this costs us money and therefore will cost late registrants money.

When do I need to Pay?

Register your player by June 30 and pay by July 31 and you will pay $600.

Register after June 30 and you pay the $100 late fee; pay after July 31 and you pay the $100 late fee (so that makes your registration $700). No excuses, explanations etc. will change this; it applies to both REP and House League players. It is in our POLICY.

You can pay by credit card when you register through the Hockey Canada Website. (I do not believe you can go back to the website at a later date to pay via credit card) However, if you don’t want to pay by credit card now, you can meet up with Katera at the GMHA office and she will charge your card for you. Still, you need to do this prior to July 31 or your registration goes up. Credit Cards are always preferred but you can also pay by Cheque (made out to Georgina Minor Hockey Association)or Cash. Cheques can be dropped in the door at the GMHA office. DO NOT DROP CASH at the GMHA office. Arrange to meet with Katera if you choose to pay cash.

All NSF cheques are subject to a fee and once one NSF cheque has been given, the parent must pay by CASH or CREDIT CARD. No further cheques will be accepted. Players will be removed from their teams for practices/games if their registration is not paid.

Hockey School

Hockey school registration is $345 and that gives you two hours of ice time per week, one hour Saturday and one hour Sunday (some cancellations will occur throughout the season). We would like to have as many hockey school players registered early so that we can order the jerseys (first names on back) and also know how much ice we need to schedule for. Last year we had one of our highest enrollments to date with 145 kids!!!! In order to give the program the necessary resources, we need to know how many to plan for. Hockey School is not subject to the $100 late fee and we will accept registration up until late November. However, if everyone registers late we may not have enough instructors ready or ice available to make the program the best it can be.

Please go to our Links section to register for the 2012-2013 season

Note to all Team Pages Administrators

In order to make the setup a little easier this year, I have changed the names on all of the previous AA and AE teams and moved them “up” a year. Minors are changed to Majors, and the divisions are upgraded if applicable. If you need to have a new admininstrator assigned for a team and cannot do it yourselves, just let me know who it is and I’ll get it set up for you.

Note that Novice teams will have to be set up from scratch, as I can’t move the Select teams over to the AA and AE divisions. This is the only year you’ll have to do that though.

Minor Midget Teams from last year have been designated as “old”. The administrators for the Midget AE and Midget AA teams this year can decide whether they’d like to use the old Minor or old Major teams (which are still there) as their starting point for getting the new teams in order.

Thank you all, and a reminder that the use of Team Pages is mandatory. Please at least have your roster and parents in there so that they will receive announcements (like this) throughout the year.

Thanks all!!

Good Evening,

As you may or may not be aware, the Town of Georgina is now moving forward with our next phase in becoming a tobacco free community.

As directed by mayor and council, we are investigating the possibility of expanding our current no-smoking by-law to include all entrances and properties of Town facilities.

This change in the by-law could potentially affect locations such as; Georgina Ice Palace, Sutton Arena, Youth Centres, Civic Centre Town Halls, Public Libraries and all other Town owned/ operated facilities.

We ask that you follow the link provided below to complete a brief survey to share your thoughts and suggestions.

Link: http://website.georgina.local/

Thank you in advance for your time and input.