Sheldon Kennedy joins Bob to open the show (08/05/25)
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What is the purpose of today’s Oilers Now Battle of Alberta event and who is hosting it?
Hey, it's Bob Stoffer. I just wanted to let you know that you can listen to Oilers Now ad-free on Amazon Music, included with Prime. All right, welcome everybody. Bob Stafford joining you live from Red Deer, Alberta. We are at uh an event that uh we love every year. And you know, it's not really the Battle of Alberta, it's the battle for Alberta. And in this situation, every second year uh we have what's known as the Battle of Alberta Golf Tournament for the Central Alberta Children's Advocacy Center. We're at the uh Red Deer Hotel in Casino. And right off the gate, we'll tell you that Oilers Now is brought to you by our title sponsor, and that is for the sixth consecutive season, World of Spa. And we will also mention
That we are in the Play Alberta Broadcast Center, uh playAlberta.ca. When you play in Alberta, it stays in Alberta. And I want to mention at this time, uh right here, right now, that we're getting a lot of help. Special thanks to our engineer, Max Reed. Derek Scott is back at the 880 Chad Studios. Aiden Ganum helped put together the show, and we're gonna get right to what this event is about. As we are joined by Order of Canada recipient and uh former N. A. Jeller. He won a Memorial Cup in nineteen eighty nine, playing with the Swift Current Broncos, back for about his seventh or eighth appearance on our show over the last four or five years. We welcome back Sheldon Kennedy. Sheldon, how you doing? Pretty good.
How you doing, Bob? Good. Looking forward to it. Uh this is you know, it's uh amazing what's been accomplished here in central Alberta over the last eight to ten years and you've been a part of it. So maybe educate our listeners right now that might be driving around in oil country as to really what the Battle of Alberta, the concept is about and how it came to fruition and how it's benefited uh, you know, the Central Alberta Children's Advocacy Center.
Sure. Well, uh we had opened the Sheldon Kennedy Child Obviously Center in Calgary and uh I played with Terry Lowen who is one of the builders here uh in Swift Current and uh they had a ra uh terrible uh stretch of uh uh suicides, uh youth suicides in this in this city and this area and they needed a change and and uh so they tear reached out and they came down to visit the Sheldon Kennedy Center in Calgary and and they wanted to make a difference. And I said, well we we can do that. And so we modeled the which is you know in the the the building is the Sheldon Kennedy Center of Excellence here on the Sask Polytech grounds. The Child Advocacy Center spearheaded and and so it's basically a model around integrated practice.
What is the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Center and how did it originate?
When you look at systems when you look at people trying to reach out for care to get help. Um there's a lot of uh disconnects and what we wanted to do was to uh eliminate all the barriers and uh and and create that flow of connectivity uh for families or anybody needing help. We uh you know the Central Alberta's uh Child Obviously Center uh um encompasses ninety different communities in central Alberta. Um they would do uh pretty much all of the child abuse investigations, but we also have a sixteen bed long term treatment facility uh for those kids sixteen and under that uh uh the step up, step down facility um that are suffering from severe mental health issues. Um and uh you know that has huge success.
So you know what, it's it's not about reinventing the wheel, it's about putting some some good balance on it. and uh getting some good alignment and uh working together as a community to support those in need.
Sheldon Kennedy joining us live in Red Deer. Sheldon, here's the situation. This event is literally taken on a a bit of a life form of its own in terms of how successful it has been. This is the fourth one. It takes place every second year. Uh you and me have been at all four of these and I mean I wa I'll be honest with you, I was flabbergasted the first year just on the bid prices. They it pits basically fifteen Oilers alumni or Current Oilers members against fifteen Flames alumni.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the purpose of today’s Oilers Now Battle of Alberta event and who is hosting it?
0:00–2:48
2
What is the Sheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Center and how did it originate?
2:48–5:25
3
How does the Battle of Alberta golf tournament unite Oilers and Flames alumni for charity?
5:25–9:27
4
What impact has the Battle of Alberta had on Central Alberta children’s services and advocacy?
9:27–11:47
5
How much money has been raised for the Child Advocacy Center and what are this year’s fundraising goals?
11:47–14:37
6
What are the latest updates on the Edmonton Oilers and their plans for the upcoming season?
14:37–16:48
7
Why is goaltending a concern for the Oilers and what roster changes are being discussed?
16:48–19:33
8
What upcoming events, guests, and announcements follow the tournament today?
19:33–21:50