High River is in the running to be the next Hockeyville!

The announcement came during the Hockey Night in Canada broadcast Saturday, March 17, and High River along with Lafleche, Saskatchewan, Lucan, Ontario and Huntingdon, Quebec are all up for the $250,000 prize.

Local organizer, Melissa Pryor says "Wow!"

"It's surreal! I can hardly even believe it. All along I knew in my gut that we had this. But to see our name up on the screen, it was pretty cool!"

An excited bunch of Leprechauns celebrate High River being named to the final four for Kraft Hockeyville Saturday night at the High River Boston Pizza.

Voting goes Friday, March 30, starting at 10 a.m. and runs through to Saturday, March 31, at 6:30 p.m. our time with the winner being announced at 9 o'clock that night.

Go to: krafthockeyville.ca to register to vote.

You can vote as many times as you like.

 

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