Nov. 22, 2005
Contact: Joe Carr at 581-3571

BENEFIT BOTTLE DRIVE AT SUNDAY HOCKEY GAME

ORONO -- Thanks to the initiative of a UMaine student, Black Bear hockey fans will have the opportunity to donate to a worthy cause when they arrive at the Sunday University of Maine hockey game against Vermont.

"Fans with Cans," the brainchild of UMaine student Drew Borkovitz, will raise money for the social service agency Youth AIDS.

"This is a great cause," Borkovitz says.  "I know that hockey fans have a lot of enthusiasm, and I hope they'll apply it to helping us raise money for Youth AIDS."

Borkovitz and other students he's recruited, many of whom are fellow residence hall Resident Assistants (RA's), will collect returnable cans and bottles outside Alfond Arena before the game, which starts at 2 p.m.  Students from UMaine's Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternity and Peer Educators group are also involved.  The UMaine Deans of Students office has donated hot chocolate, to be distributed as a token of appreciation to those who contribute.