Involved with the Nipawin Hawks since it started, Marj Moisan was given a SaskEnergy Volunteer Champion Award at a home game just before the puck hit the ice.
“I just want to say thanks to SaskEnergy, to the electors for choosing me as their candidate and to thank all of the many volunteers and the fans,” she said just before receiving the award Feb. 17. “To me, this award belongs to all of them because when I have called for their help, they’ve been there to help make things easier with the projects they’ve worked on with me, they’ve been so obliging.”
It was those other volunteers that came to Moisan’s mind when she found out she was to receive the award.
“I guess what went through my mind is that over the years, that I’ve been involved, I’ve actually been a very fortunate girl in that I have received some very nice awards. Is there not somebody out there that maybe deserved it more than I did at this time?”
Moisan’s interest in hockey began when she was dating her husband, Ernie.
“Before I was ever married, Ernie played senior hockey and when we started going together, my love for hockey started to grow and we’ve been hockey people all of our lives. Without hockey, we’d be lost.”
The pair were involved in Nipawin’s Junior B hockey team for a few years and then got involved with the Junior A Hawks when they formed in the 1985-86 season.
Moisan has served as the team’s secretary and is ready to help with various projects and with organizing volunteers. She’s heavily involved with the Hawks Radio Auction, which has been around for 25 years.
“That’s a project I totally love,” she said.
Moisan has also been honoured for her volunteer efforts, receiving a special jersey from the team and recognized by the entire Saskatchewan Junion Hockey League for her work.
“We love to come to the games and support our boys,” she said. “We’ve learned to know a lot of them.”
The volunteer said she was pleased with how the team has been playing this year.
“It’s been an awesome year. Just to watch the way they’ve been playing, you just know their hearts are in it.”
She added the team has their off days, but they can’t win them all. If they did, they’d forget why they were even there.
There is one volunteer that Moisan will single out.
“Most of all, I’m grateful for my number one Hawk, which is my husband, because without him, I don’t know where I’d be.”
He will listen to her complain, help her keep cool when it becomes stressful and help out with all of the projects she’s involved with.
Along with Moisan’s award, Nipawin KidSport was presented with a $2,655 donation. After that presentation, Roughrider linebacker Henoc Muamba dropped the puck.
