It’s hard to imagine the Carlo Cattarello Arena without Brenda Torresan being there for up to a hundred hours a week during hockey season. But the minor hockey volunteer for the past 40 years is retiring from her volunteer job as convener of the initiation program.
The 70-year-old says she jumped on board, when Hockey Canada brought it in.
“Having a figure skating background, I could certainly help the kids learn how to skate before they could do anything else,” she recalls. “And that’s still the case, except that for five years now, I have not had my skates on.”
She says she’ll still help, if PMHA will have her.
“I’ll do the hockey swaps. I’ll help to mentor the programming, etc. and when they need me, they can just call on me.”
Torresan says she’ll continue to be the billet coordinator for the Timmins Rock, work with different groups with which she’s involved, and just “have time for Brenda”.
Here’s our interview: