CAPER SCRAPER
O’Neill brothers win contest to name Dominion’s new Olympia
Boys win contest to name new ice cleaner.
Good news proved to be good medicine for a young boy.
On Monday, Keegan O’Neill, 11, and his brother Jordan, 7, learned they were the winners of the Mickey’s Original Six Hockey Society contest to name the new Olympia destined for Dominion Arena.
The winning name is the Caper Scraper.
“I just jumped out of my chair,” said Keegan, who has been battling a cold, of his reaction to the news. “It did make me feel better.”
Brother Jordan O’Neill, 7, was also excited by the news.
“I was just jumping all around when I found out.”
Keegan, a Grade 6 student at Oceanview Education Centre, isn’t sure what he will do with his share of the prize, but Jordan, a Grade 2 student at St. Anne’s Elementary School, says he needs new knee pads for hockey.
The boys will receive a $100
gift certificate from Bay Bye Sports and a $300 cash prize from the hockey society, Dominion Arena and Glace Bay Minor Hockey.
Mickey McNeil of the society organized the contest to name the new $100,000 Olympia destined for the Dominion Arena. Children were invited to fill out a ballot which included a sketch of the Olympia to colour.
The O’Neill boys participate in Glace Bay Minor Hockey. Keegan is a member of the peewee AAA Miners and Jordan is on the novice advanced Blue team.
The boys mother Kerry O’Neill suggested they enter the contest and the brothers decided to work together.
It was Jordan who came up with the name Caper Scraper while he and his brother were at the rink.
“I was just thinking it should be something to do with Cape Breton and that’s where I got ‘Caper’ from,” said Jordan. “Then I was thinking of what an (Olympia) does, it scrapes the ice.”
McNeil said they are pleased with the response having received more than 200 entries. A group of judges selected the winning name.
McNeil said the O’Neill boys are at the rink on a regular basis.
“They are here so often I sometimes ask if they are after my job.”
McNeil expects the new Olympia to arrive in the next month or two and when it does, the boys will have their picture taken on it and the photo will be placed in the arena lobby.
A plaque with the name Caper Scraper will be placed on the front on the Olympia.