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HWBC JUNE NEWS

Being the start of summer, there is not much hockey news to put forth.  Continue to gather signatures on our petition drive to have the legislature work on a new arena.

June's general meeting will be held at Hartford21, third floor.  We are moving the time to 7:30p.m. as we have something a little special planned.  Kevin Massicotte, who has been working on the documentary Bleeding Green, is going to screen a preview following the business portion of our meeting.  This is an edited version, with new material and as I understand it is a little under a half hour in length.

New Arena in Ct. will ressurect Hartford Whaler franchise.

FROM THE MAY NEWS LETTER FROM THE HARTFORD WHALERS BOOSTER CLUB, sign the petition at

http://www.whalerwatch.com

Dear Fellow Hockey Fans and Club Members:

Now that the regular season is over and we are enjoying the playoffs, it is time to bring you up to date on the new arena, what the Club has been doing, etc...

If you didn't get a chance to see the Face the State program a couple weeks ago, please know that things are happening in the process of getting a new arena for the State of Connecticut in Hartford.  Mayor Perez has appointed a task force to look into corporate support, and they are hard at work going out into the corporate community to validate that there is corporate support for a new arena in Hartford.  Speaker Amann has proceeded to seek corporate support from the Fairfield County area where he resides.  Larry Gottesdiener is continuing his efforts to locate a portable NHL team to move into the new building.  Our part continues to be the gathering of signatures on our "new arena" petition to give to the State legislature - by January 2009 - in time for that legislative session when they begin serious discussion on a new arena.  It would be great if we could present our legislators in excess of 25-30,000 signatures.