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Curling Jamaica Secretary General Andrew Walker, a recreational curler who once won the Monday night house league at his home club, said finding other Jamaican curlers was “a lightbulb moment” for him.

It’s a survival tool borne of decades spent overcoming its past as a de facto six-team house league dominated by white Canadian men.

But putting kids through hockey is still an involved process; even in recreational, or “house league” hockey played only at local rinks, registration fees are typically beyond $1,000 — and growing with each step up the elite level ladder.

The Jr. PGA League season just completed, but ARV, Allendale and other course compete in a Fall season house league for kids.

Forest wrote that Levi’s perseverance, hard work and positive attitude were rewarded when he laced up his skates, pulled on his number 35 jersey, and jumped back on the ice as a forward for the U14 House League White team.