Cranbrook citizens show team spirit by replacing missing hockey funds

The Cranbrook Friendship hockey team will leave for Japan on April 23 after the community stepped up to raise money when funds for the trip went missing.
Citizens of Cranbrook demonstrated their team spirit Saturday, donating more than $25,000 to send a kids’ hockey team to a tournament in Japan after the money designated for the trip disappeared.
A dozen days before they were set to depart, the Cranbrook Friendship hockey team discovered a “trusted volunteer” had allegedly mis