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It is believed that no Canadian has officiated an NBA game, but Calgary's Michael Weiland is determined to be the one. Read more. . .

From ABOA President Perry Stothart:

A message from President Perry Stothart:

Good morning,

I would like to take this opportunity to remind the boards of the honorary life member program that we have with the ABOA, which forms a part of our AGM. You may recall the encouragement we expressed at the fall clinic to emphasize the honorary life membership status. We want to again encourage each of you to discuss with you various executives and appropriate individuals to identify ABOA members past or present deserving of honorary recognition.

According to the ABOA bylaws: there are 3 methods for nomination of an honorary life member:

1. By the ABOA, with 5 days notice given to the membership before the the AGM.

2. By his/her local board, a board member present at the AGM may put forth the nominee's name provided the board rep has a copy of the minutes of a local board meeting where the nominee was selected.

3. By any ABOA member at the AGM, provided 5 others in attendance second the nomination.

IN EACH CASE ABOVE: the nomination must be supported by a UNANIMOUS vote of all in attendance at the AGM, which will then result in honorary life member status for the individual.

In the case that you have a nomination but cannot have a board representative present for the AGM please submit the nomination to me no later than Monday April 26. That will allow us proper time/consideration to review the name in advance of the AGM. (as per #1 above)

Thank you for your attention.

Regards,
Perry

Red Deer Lodge - 4311 - 49th Avenue
Sunday May 2

Cabinet Meeting
12:00 - 2:00 pm (we will NOT be providing lunch)

AGM
2:00 - 4:00 pm

Elections - Interpreter (currently Morgan Munroe) and Director at Large (currently Marc Yagos)

Other details to follow in the near future.

MHBOA official Richard (Dick) Schear was featured in a recent article in the Bow Island Commentator:

"Local finishes 41st year reffing
Twenty-nine years as a teacher, 15 years (and counting) In Registered Education Savings Plans sales, and 41 years (and also counting) in refereeing basketball (jr. high, high school and college) and football adds up to one busy life for Redcliff’s Richard Schear." Read more . . .

If you know the official in this photo, you are really, really old. Click here for the answer.

National and Provincial Appointments have been finalized. Check out the Appointments tab for more info.

See the Camps subpage in the Education tab for more info on the Prairie Dog Officials Camp.

EBOA VP Leo Mangano sends along the following article from the Edmonton Examiner. Read more. . .

The Olympic Torch made an appearance at Red Deer College during the women's basketball game. Some of our officials got to hold the torch. Read more.

This year, the EBOA is joining the fight against Cancer. To show our support both on and off the Court, all EBOA Officials and other basketball officiating boards throughout the Province of Alberta, will be donning Fox40 Pink Whistles for all games during the week of February 1-7, 2010. Read more and view the EBOA Media Release.

ABOA Interpreter Morgan Munroe today released a copy of the 2009 CABO FIBA Exam, the Answer Key and an Analysis of the Ten Most Difficult Questions. Click here to access these documents.

ABOA Webmaster Ken Runquist models the new ABOA uniform which may be adopted soon. Click here for a look.

ABOA officials Wayne Zack, Wayne Ayling, Kathy Ross, and Linda Duinker went up to Whitehorse and put on Clinics for their officials, and for teams from across the North from Nunavit, Yukon, NWT and Alaska. Click here for photos.