http://www.refalberta.ca/index.htmlHot News!enkenrunquist@mac.comCopyright 2009 Ken Runquist2010-06-07T14:41:23-06:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 Mon, 07 Jun 2010 14:41:47 -0600kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-06-07T14:41:23-06:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/972f2f5d8729dbd86b5d48121817c58a-33.html#unique-entry-id-33http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/972f2f5d8729dbd86b5d48121817c58a-33.html#unique-entry-id-33Officials Needed For Alberta Summer Games To Be Hosted In Peace River July 22 - 25

Basketball is in the latter half of the Games so players, coaches & officials will arrive in the Peace Region by late afternoon Thursday July 22. The final games are Sunday morning followed by Closing Ceremonies with departure by early afternoon Sunday.

Level of competition: U15 girls and boys

Travel arrangements: Car pooling compensation: 3+ people/vehicle $0.40/km, 2 people/vehicle $0.35/km, 1 person/vehicle $0.30/km. Some travel will be coordinated by ABOA, as necessary.

All meals will be provided.

Accommodations: all refs will be put up in hotels in Peace River.

We have spots for 17 or 18 referees and 2 or 3 A/Es....total 20 registrations.

Technical package will be sent to ABOA and fwd to all officials by Basketball Alberta once all are registered...after June 23rd.

There are no game fees for any officials selected to Alberta or Canada Games by policy. All officials will receive a long sleeve dry fit shirt and a provincial evaluation.

To Apply: Officials will be selected by their local boards who must have their nominations into ABOA through Jake Steinbrenner at zebra1@ocii.com by Thursday, June 17th. Each local board can nominate 1 official to each of the girls & boys competitions and ABOA will make the final selections with heavy priority to representation from all regions. Peace River & GPBOA as hosts can nominate 2 each.
This is a high intensity level of competition so please nominate officials who are able to handle a certain amount of pressure. In the future this will be limited to, in all likelihood, only NOCP Level 2 officials.

Basketball Alberta must have the names by Friday June 18th. Robyn Oldham at BA would like all the hard copy registrations and rosters sent to her and she will fwd on. Online registrations are the responsibility of the participating officials once selected....Jake will advise on those procedures.]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-04-23T20:29:49-06:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/4d2b998438b329e607c4f578bc496884-32.html#unique-entry-id-32http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/4d2b998438b329e607c4f578bc496884-32.html#unique-entry-id-32
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
]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-04-20T21:47:59-06:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/2f3759d25b248f5bd9ccac292bf0a2a8-31.html#unique-entry-id-31http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/2f3759d25b248f5bd9ccac292bf0a2a8-31.html#unique-entry-id-31Red 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.]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-03-27T13:01:42-06:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/bfe34cbac20e5ba519f6d5a188f0e955-30.html#unique-entry-id-30http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/bfe34cbac20e5ba519f6d5a188f0e955-30.html#unique-entry-id-30MHBOA 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 . . .

]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-02-18T19:01:27-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/9430cd0494cb8126f8e23399ce87cd90-29.html#unique-entry-id-29http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/9430cd0494cb8126f8e23399ce87cd90-29.html#unique-entry-id-29

This is a photo of former EBOA official Larry Nowack. Larry was recognized with the CABO Wink Willox Award in 2007 for excellence in officiating and contributions to the Association. Click on the photo for a larger view. Photo courtesy of Facebook photos of Pat McDonald, long-time coach in Grande Prairie.]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-02-15T19:18:34-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/7a980b6d52a3548391192d88c09edead-28.html#unique-entry-id-28http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/7a980b6d52a3548391192d88c09edead-28.html#unique-entry-id-28Edmonton Examiner:

“The Edmonton Basketball Officials Association (EOBA) presented a $4,600 cheque to the Canadian Cancer Society during halftime of the Tri-Prov tournament
men’s championship game Saturday night at Harry Ainlay school, culminating a heartening program that ran from Feb. 1 to 7.”

Read the rest of the story by downloading a PDF copy here.

]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-01-28T13:41:56-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/d7220bf62ce3ab61b65fd898ea7fd8cf-27.html#unique-entry-id-27http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/d7220bf62ce3ab61b65fd898ea7fd8cf-27.html#unique-entry-id-27The Olympic Torch mad an appearance at the Red Deer College women’s basketball game on January 16th. CABOA officials Josh Carothers, Veronica Den Oudsten and Keith Acheson are pictured below with the torch. The second photo shows ABOA Observer Ken Wamsley, who coincidentally carried the torch at the original Olympic Games in Athens. Click on the photos for a larger view.

]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-01-20T21:10:07-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/f32d8f423dc3dd087ae90476db7435da-26.html#unique-entry-id-26http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/f32d8f423dc3dd087ae90476db7435da-26.html#unique-entry-id-26EBOA 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.

This initiative, through the purchase of Pink Whistles, has raised just over $3,000 for the Canadian Cancer Society.

To further spread the word of this Fundraiser, we encourage all EBOA Members to pass along the attached Media Release to your Friends and Family asking them to join the Fight.

The Canadian Cancer Society has provided the EBOA with a convenient Team Page web-link to make it easy for anyone to contribute to the Fight, no matter how big or small the contribution may be.

The web-link is: http://convio.cancer.ca/goto/EBOAvsCANCER

EBOA Executive Board

Stephane Labonne Karen Lasuik
Leo Mangano Susan Yackabowski
John Byrne Gil Desmarais
Gary Nahornick Franco Panizzon
Kent Heine Ed Harasem

With the initiative of the Edmonton Basketball Officials Association (EBOA) and the support of the Alberta Basketball Officials Association (ABOA), this campaign will champion the efforts of over 415 basketball referees in high school & post-secondary gyms throughout Alberta the first week of February. Additionally, the Bears & Pandas games Jan 29 & 30 will also be venues to support and create awareness for Reach For A Cure. All in all this will reach a lot of gyms in cities & towns from Medicine Hat to La Crete & Ft. McMurray and many places in between.

You may also join the effort to match the $3000 raised by donating through the web-link below but that is not the primary purpose here. Many of you already give so this is just to generate further awareness.

Click here to view the EBOA Media Release.
]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-01-16T19:43:33-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/9b4a9a8daee1ad53b567453d55778eb1-25.html#unique-entry-id-25http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/9b4a9a8daee1ad53b567453d55778eb1-25.html#unique-entry-id-25Morgan 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.]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-01-01T16:22:15-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/a086d478bfc2a9d2a243f8a96e95ef77-24.html#unique-entry-id-24http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/a086d478bfc2a9d2a243f8a96e95ef77-24.html#unique-entry-id-24Click here for photos.]]>kenrunquist@mac.comNone2010-01-01T18:51:00-07:00http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/a95861731da6eb4d128dca55d0dfb800-23.html#unique-entry-id-23http://www.refalberta.ca/public/blog_2010_files/a95861731da6eb4d128dca55d0dfb800-23.html#unique-entry-id-23

Retired ABOA official Ken Runquist models the proposed new ABOA uniform in a recent game in Maui. Ken’s comments: the new look is very comfortable and breathes well but I’m not sure how it will play in Peace River in the middle of January”. It looks like we will have to stay with the black and white stripes.

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