Tuesday - Oct. 1, 2024 - Chilliwack to keep city name on hockey arena

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Good morning!

It’s almost time for our feline visitor to head back to my brother-in-law’s house. He has been a good cat for this past month, tolerating the (remarkably few) tail-pulling incidents and demanding cuddles (in excessive amounts).

As I write this, he is lying on the windowsill in my office, getting cat hair over numerous unimportant papers. As I said before, it is nice to have a cat. I hope this orange boy comes back to visit again, and is equally as well-behaved.

–Grace

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Chilliwack to keep city name on hockey arena

Chilliwack will pay $77,000 to keep its name on the local hockey arena for the next year.

In 2019, the City of Chilliwack entered into a partnership with the Chilliwack Chiefs, taking over sponsorship of what was then Prospera Centre, and renaming it the Chilliwack Coliseum. The renamed Coliseum was a callback to the earlier Chilliwack Coliseum, which operated as a recreation centre where the Chilliwack Cultural Centre sits today. That first ice arena opened in 1958 and saw its last hockey game in 2004. Prospera Centre, next door on Hodgins, opened in June of the following year.

The Chiefs and the city signed a private-public partnership in 2003 to build and run the arena, but the deal did not include naming rights for the facility. Instead, Prospera Credit Union agreed to a 10-year sponsorship and naming deal. That agreement was extended by five years. In 2018, with that agreement having expired, the name was switched to the Chilliwack Coliseum, with the city providing funding for new signage and other services. (The building is technically owned by the Chilliwack Chiefs, but the city is slowly buying it from the team by paying off its mortgage. The city won’t own the building until the public-private partnership ends in 2028.)

With the 2019 sponsorship agreement ending this year, the city is signing a new one-year agreement with the team; according to a city spokesperson, there have been “many changes in the hockey marketplace, such as the BCHL leaving the Hockey Canada system last year,” and the city decided a one-year agreement would work best as a result. The new one-year agreement will include in-kind contributions to the area, like grass-cutting and snow-removal, as well as $20,000 towards the building’s repair expense fund.

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