Just For The Fun Of It

McDougall Insurance Community Contest 2026

The Pete Petersen Basketball League have entered a submission in the McDougall Insurance Community Contest and we need your help to have a chance to win one of the prizes being awarded this year. The top three video vote getters will receive a $5000 prize for the highest number of votes, $3000 for second place and $2000 for third place.

Voting starts at 12:00 am Eastern Time May 23rd and goes until 11:59pm Eastern Time on May 31st. The winners will be announced on Monday June 2nd.

Our Video in the submissions is titled Pete Petersen Basketball League by Roland B. A copy of the video submitted is below.

Please share this post on your own networks if you believe in supporting this initiative to give us the broadest exposure we can to generate votes.

Here are the voting rules:
In order to vote you need to use Google Chrome or Fire Fox. Internet Explorer and Safari are not compatible with the platform.

During the public voting round, there will be a limit of one vote per person, per day. Evidence of fraudulent voting will result in the immediate elimination of the community group in the final round.

The monetary prizes will be awarded to the top 3 community projects at the conclusion of the public voting round in the form of a cheque.

Here is the link that you will need to use to cast votes and remember – votes can only be cast using Google Chrome or Firefox.

To vote you would visit the contest website

https://platform.votigo.com/fbcontests/profiletab/McDougallCommunityContest2026

Click View Entries
. Select the video you would like to vote for
. The website will ask for either a Facebook login or an email
. Each person is limited to one vote per day

Cut and paste the link below into Google Chrome or Firefox Browser to access the site – remember – Safari and Internet Explorer will let you view the entries but your vote will not count if you use them once voting starts.

https://platform.votigo.com/fbcontests/showentry/McDougallCommunityContest2026/3798419/3798419

Thanks for getting behind us,

Share this post on your networks to spread the word.

Roland

St. Francis of Assisi Catholic School is having a fund raising raffle this month is support of school activities, and we have been asked to let the league family know about it through the link below.
What a great way to give support to the school that does so much to support what we do for the community. While there is no direct benefit to the league, there is a benefit to the school that helps us all year.

https://www.rafflebox.ca/raffle/stfa

At registration last season there were a number of concerns raised about individuals doing bulk registrations of players. At the time, we as an executive of the league promised a complete review of the guideline that had been in place for many years and replace it with a firm policy to address the concerns raised. We have done that.

While we will allow persons that are not able to attend registration in person because of work commitments or personal circumstances to have another register their player, no individual may register more than 3 players on registration day effective immediately.

This new policy will be repeated as we start to roll out our answers to frequently asked questions in the months ahead. Roland

We have been asked to remind everyone that the nominations for the Kiwanis Amateur Sports Awards are open and will be closing soon. This year marks a return of the event that was a fixture on the Kingston Sports landscape for many years, acknowledging the achievements of amateur athletes and builders. Details for the event, and how to nominate individuals can be found on the posters below.

Please direct any questions you nay have about the process to the organizers of the event.

Please join us in supporting the St. Francis of Assisi Car Wash on Saturday May 16 from 10 until 3 at the school. This is a great chance for the league family to get behind the school that hosts us four nights a week as the grade 7/8 classrooms try and raise money for their year end trip. The classes also want to donate 25% of their net profits back to the league again this year so there is another reason for all of us to get behind this event. We will remind you again as we get closer to the date.

As celebrate National Volunteer Week in this, the International Year of the Volunteer, we want to talk the time to thank the many volunteers that over our 71 years of operation have made what we do for the children in our community possible. Without their commitment and belief in what we do, we would not be able to keep access to our sport affordable for all.

This week on our Facebook page, we will feature photos from the archives of current and past volunteers, starting today with some of the volunteers from last season.

Whenever you may have volunteered with the league, know that you made a difference, and your contributions will never be taken for granted.

Congratulations to Brad Woolnough and his family on winning the Raptor Tickets at the banquet for the game against Orlando March 29th! We just received this message from Brad “Just wanted to thank you for a great season!!!
I was the one who won the Raptor tickets
We had a great time and they were amazing seats!”

The Raptors won and the smile sums up the day nicely. Thank you Brad for sharing the experience.

Yesterday we received a very generous donation to our program from Matt Spooner and Sheila Devlin Spooner. We want to thank them for making a difference in the lives of our players and their families. Thank you for believing in what we do.

We are truly blessed to have the ongoing support from the businesses and people in the community that believe in what we do, and we will never take that belief for granted. Thank You!!

The Don “Pete” Petersen Memorial Golf Tournament is coming up on Friday June 26th at the Amherstview Golf Club. Details of how to enter this “Just For the Fun of It” event are in the poster below.

On Sunday March 1st we held our annual Awards Banquet at Our lady of Fatima Parish Hall to recognize special contributors and thank the community partners we have that help make the league happen every season. Our thanks to the many volunteers that assisted with the banquet set up, food distribution, ticket sales and clean up after.