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Good afternoon everyone, 

Earlier today, the province announced that effective immediately, there are new restrictions on out-of-province travel for children age 11 and younger for the purpose of participating in sports, arts, culture events.

Children age 11 and younger are also restricted from entering Nova Scotia for these activities.

Individuals, businesses and organizations in Nova Scotia cannot host sports games, competitions and tournaments that include children 11 and younger from outside the province as participants. They also cannot participate in these types of events outside Nova Scotia.

These restrictions will remain in place until at least early January and will be re-evaluated then.

Children can continue to travel to attend these types of events as spectators. They can continue to travel for regular practices, lessons and rehearsals, which is lower risk because they are interacting with the same group all the time.

All other travel restrictions remain in place. They are detailed here.

To read the complete release from the province, please click here.

These measures are in place to ensure that we can continue to keep playing. Thank you all for your hard work and continued support.

Sincerely,

Amy Walsh
Executive Director
Hockey Nova Scotia

Arnie Farrell
President
Hockey Nova Scotia

Garreth MacDonald
Communications & Special Events Director
Hockey Nova Scotia
259 Commodore Drive
Dartmouth, NS, B3B 0M1
902.454.9400
hockeynovascotia.ca

We are excited to kick of our first Coach Development Session of the 20221-2022 season.  This session is open to all Dartmouth Whaler coaches.

Please note if you are attending you must register at the below link

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Good Afternoon

Just a quick note to inform everyone that we have received notification that we will be losing Rink A at the RBC center as of November 28th. We have just received the below notification this morning and we will be working hard with HRM, Nustadia/ RBC Centre, our executives and other rinks to see if there is a possibility to relocate teams to help us absorb all of our ice times.

Please know we are aware andwe are being diligent in figuring it all out.  As for now, plan to have your teams on the ice for their regular times up to and including Sunday November 28th, 2021.

We will have more discussions this coming weekend and once we know more, we will send out an update.

Thank you for your patience.

Dartmouth Whalers Board

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Excerpt from HRM Parks & Recreation November 26^th Email 

Due to the emergency need to address homelessness in HRM, Regional Council authorized the CAO to implement a range of emergency shelter accommodations. Persons have been housed at the Gray arena on an emergency basis since mid-September resulting in all dry floor bookings, including lacrosse and ball hockey being cancelled.  The municipality is procuring modular units to provide accommodations for those individuals currently being housed in the Gray. Unexpected delays pushed out the expected date to have these modular units ready beyond the initially anticipated date.

To accommodate a winter season for lacrosse and other dry floor sports, and with the continued use of the Gray arena as an emergency shelter, the municipality is removing one pad of ice (Pad A) from the RBC 4-pad effective midnight November 28th. Dry-floor rentals will commence December 6^th. There are 26 ice pads in the municipality. The Gray arena is typically the only year-round dry-floor arena in Halifax. To ensure as complete a season for lacrosse as possible and to reduce potential for further disruption, bookings will be rescheduled through to the end of the winter season (March 31, 2022).

Recognizing this will have an impact across all arenas and user groups we ask for patience and understanding from everyone as staff adjust bookings. We will aim to relocate and reschedule as many bookings as possible, with a priority on youth bookings however some ice bookings may not be able to be rescheduled and will be cancelled.

To register click here  JUNIOR COACH REGISTRATION

With the deadline of November 30th for full payment of registration, there have been a lot of questions regarding players balance owing or questions regarding payments made/ charged to credit cards and payments remaining.  This can be viewed by parents by logging back into the system at the below website link and the "HOW TO" document posted below

https://account.spordle.com/auth/HCR

How to view Players balance owing <-Click here

1If you have any questions regarding balance or payments, please reach out to either:
Registrar Registrar@whalers.org
Treasurer treasurer@whalers.org

U9 Development Sessions- starting Nov 16th