Saturday night's snowstorm may have depressed attendance at the AHL Manchester Monarch's game to which Proctor folk had 270 tickets, but the Toys For Tots drive still yielded $10,000, and Bob Livingston and his team are feeling great. I was detained by Security at the front door because of my camera, and was allowed to proceed only after promising I wouldn't compete with the professional photographers shooting hockey action.
I still got loads of pix, because ice hockey is only a fraction of the action, if you know what I'm sayin'.
Nobody had any problem with me documenting the players' behavior once the whistle stopped play, which was often.
Bob was able to recount several inspirational stories this morning is assembly. Southwest Airlines employees--with little to do at Manchester Airport--dashed over to Verizon Wireless Center to collect toys and donations in place of Proctor students who were prohibited from traveling.
Every player on the Monarchs had shopped for toys, and Bob was escorted into their locker room for the surprise. Cable TV carried the game nationally, and the presidents of other AHL teams are talking about contributing, too. This is the kind of photo they didn't want me to take:
