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Hall of Fame News: Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame Annual Report – 2015-16 ift.tt/28Nh4rv On Wednesday June 15 2016 at the Basketball Manitoba Annual General Meeting the following report was presented and accepted by the membership. It is shared below as information for all of our honoured members and friends.MANITOBA BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM ANNUAL REPORT This was another eventful year for the Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum (MBHOFM). The opening and continued development of our new site in the Duckworth Centre at the University of Winnipeg has been a huge success. The following were the highlights : the new site was officially opened on April 21 2015 and at the same time we announced our 2015 Hall of Fame inductees from the opening date to April 29 2016 we recorded 18163 visitors ; this is a huge increase over our past numbers our 15th induction dinner was held on Saturday October 3 2015 at the Victoria Inn where Earnest Bell Terry Garrow and Erin Soroko-Drazic (players) Coleen Dufresne Hymie Fox Maureen Orchard and Ralph Watts (builders) and the 1975 1976 & 1978 Lord Selkirk Royals Varsity Girls and the 1977 1978 1979 & 1981 Lord Selkirk Royals Varsity Boys (teams) were inducted at the dinner a new record was set with 276 in attendance the continued inventory of our holdings labeling and recording more photographs the development and display of a photo array of action or game photos 29 in total the replacement of the drawers under the five display cabinets giving us much more storage space and raising the cabinets for easier viewing we continued to get great support in our on-going fundraising campaign with our honoured members and friends through the National Sports Trust Fund (NSTF) we were successful in our application for a grant from Western Economic Diversification Canada 150 Community Infrastructure Program in the amount of $4000.00 we continued as a Level 1 Museum by the Community Museum Grants Program which results in financial support of $1350.00 we added two new members to our volunteer organizing committee with Carol Ploen-Hosegood and Ken Opalko officially joining us Our MBHOFM is open every day during the year with the exception of statutory holidays. It is open from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. daily. For 2016 the following are planned : the continued development of our Hall of Fame and Museum site to continue the video interviews of all honoured members 4 new TV video monitors (two as replacements and two new) In conclusion we need to mention the tremendous on-going support we get from the University of Winnipeg. Manitoba is the only province in Canada that has a permanent home for a Basketball Hall of Fame and Museum and ours would not exist without this support and the support of our extended basketball community through Basketball Manitoba. Respectfully submitted by Ross Wedlake Chair MBHOFM Source: Manitoba Basketball Hall of Fame ift.tt/28MlhrV Hall of Fame Headlines
