Spirit team members will wear special military style jerseys to be auctioned off in a live post game auction hosted by WSGW Radio Personality Art Lewis and sponsored by Bay City Elks Lodge 88.
MILITARY APPRECIATION: Bay City Elks Sponsor Spirit Hockey Event Nov. 7
Col. Roger Donlon Returns, Military Free at Game
October 27, 2015
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By: Dave Rogers
Spirit Hockey Military Appreciation Night, presented by Bay City Elks Lodge 88, will be held Saturday, Nov. 7 at the Dow Event Center.
All Veterans, active duty service personnel and reservists will receive a complimentary game ticket. Families and friends can purchase additional fund raiser tickets for the discounted rate of $13 with proceeds going to Elks 88 for local support of the military. Tickets are available at the Spirit Store, 5789 State St., Saginaw.
Spirit team members will wear special military style jerseys to be auctioned off in a live post game auction hosted by WSGW Radio Personality Art Lewis and sponsored by Bay City Elks Lodge 88.
Door open at 5 p.m. in the Bud Light Blue Line Club for holders of game tickets. The game begins at 7:05 p.m.
Col. Rogers H.C. Donlon, first Congressional Medal of Honor Winner in Vietnam, will speak and provide a special photo opportunity for a donation to a non-profit organization.
Another guest speaker will be Sgt. Doug Szczepanski, who on 15 Dept. 2005 on patrol in Baghdad, Iraq, was attacked and wounded by a suicide car bomber aiming to take his life.
For more information contact Dan Weigl at 989-497-7747 or e-mail at dweigl@saginawspirit.com.
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Dave Rogers is a former editorial writer for the Bay City Times and a widely read, respected journalist/writer in and around Bay City. (Contact Dave Via Email at carraroe@aol.com)
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