Get your Rider tickets and support the
Oasis Centre
By By Matthew Liebenberg
June 9,2010
Heritage Funeral Home Director Basil Forsberg (at left) presents the tickets for
the Rider ticket auction to Norm Rudock of CJNE - The Storm radio station on
June 1.
It is time again to show Rider pride and at the same time help out the Nipawin Oasis
Centre with the Rider ticket auction.
Local Rider fans can now bid on tickets to attend one of their team's home games.
Bidding takes place through CJNE - The Storm radio station.
This is the third year that the Rider ticket auction will take place. As before, the tickets
are donated by Heritage Funeral Home.
"They are auctioned off all year long for Roughrider games and all the proceeds go to
Oasis," Heritage Funeral Home Director Basil Forsberg said.
Forsberg was at the CJNE office on Tuesday, June 1, to present the tickets to Norm
Rudock.
The Roughriders will be playing 10 home games this season, and a pair of tickets is up
for auction for each game. Successful bidders will also receive a parking pass.
Rudock, who attended Rider games last year after successfully bidding on tickets, said
the seats are well located on the 40-yard line behind the home bench.
"You're close enough to the field to still hear the players yelling," he said.
Forsberg is a proud Rider fan and also a team shareholder. He said that people in the
United States, even in the southern states, would talk to him about the Riders when they
learn that he is from Saskatchewan.
Single-game tickets have been selling fast since going on sale on June 1. Tickets for the
Labour Day game on Sept. 5 against the Winnipeg Blue Bombers sold out in the first 16
minutes.
Ticket sales for the regular season opener on July 1 against Montreal and for the July 17
game against Edmonton were also going fast, with only a limited amount of tickets
remaining. The Riders will start their pre-season at Mosaic Stadium on June 13 against
the B.C. Lions.
At the rate single-game ticket sales are going, the local Rider ticket auction will soon be
the only option for fans to get to a game.
"Bid whatever you can to get your tickets," Forsberg said.
Residents can also show their Rider pride this Friday, as the Town of Nipawin has
declared June 11 as Riderville Day.
Everyone can wear their Rider gear and join the longest cheerleading line, starting at
Central Park Elementary School at 12:15 p.m.