Dear Editor:
To hockey parents who attended the Atom’s game Saturday, Jan. 17, I’m a grandparent of one of the nine-year-old players. (On that day) some adults displayed behaviour that the nine-year-old child would find themselves in trouble for.
Yes, one of our parents brought an air horn to the game with the intention of celebrating our team’s success in getting a goal — not to offend or upset any child and in this case some moms from the North Shore team.
This was a kids’ game. We had a rough start to our season and in other rinks over the Lower Mainland, music and horns were blasted when the teams beating us scored.
Our horn-honking parent is simply celebrating our girls’ successes, nothing more. The kids think it’s fun. Simple as that.
But we’ll be the bigger person here and apologize for upsetting the parents.
Taking a ridiculous argument out to a parking lot in front of young children to the point of saying (you’re) going to call police and to get off “your” property is a splendid example for young kids.
Pat Keating
Pitt Meadows
