For years the WorldB次元官网网址檚 Largest Hockey Stick has loomed over the entrance to the Cowichan Community CentreB次元官网网址檚 arena doors. If plans in Lockport Illinois proceed, however, the WorldB次元官网网址檚 Largest Hockey Stick in Cowichan, will become, just a really big hockey stick.

A proposal is brewing to construct a 250-foot-long hockey stick outside a recently approved ice arena dome in the small city near Chicago. The size of their stick outdoes DuncanB次元官网网址檚 Big Stick by a good 45 feet, which would oust CowichanB次元官网网址檚 stick B次元官网网址� made in Penticton of Douglas Fir and a remnant of Expo B次元官网网址�86 that the community fought hard to have relocated here in 1988 B次元官网网址� as the record-holder.

B次元官网网址淭he StickB次元官网网址� was authenticated in the 2010 Guinness Book of Records, and is represented in the Resource Centre, part of the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto, says a CVRD information sheet.

B次元官网网址淲hile the CVRD is not in a position to comment on the Lockport proposal, they would like to highlight the current WorldB次元官网网址檚 Largest Hockey Stick and Puck at the Cowichan Community Centre has been a community icon and supported nationally since coming to Cowichan in 1988,B次元官网网址� said CVRD spokesperson Kris Schumacher.B次元官网网址漈his community asset would not have been possible without the hard work and dedication of community members and has been a factor in the regionB次元官网网址檚 overall economic development over the years.B次元官网网址�

According to oldtimers, it was a 20-year battle to get CowichanB次元官网网址檚 Big Stick recognized as the WorldB次元官网网址檚 Largest. Prior to it earning the official record, a 71-foot stick in Minnesota was considered the biggest.

Dick Drew was part of the committee formed to acquire the landmark, along with Bhagwan Mayer, Len Goodman, Karl Schutz and Ron Austen B次元官网网址� who all worked tirelessly first to secure the WorldB次元官网网址檚 Largest Hockey Stick and Puck for the Cowichan Valley after Expo B次元官网网址�86 and then to move it to Duncan in August of 1987. It was dedicated on May 21, 1988, two years to the day after Expo B次元官网网址�86 opened.

In 2019 the Big Stick saw a lighting upgrade to allow for colours and patterns within its 665 LED light display. Various light schemes are used to acknowledge events at the Cowichan Community Centre like Cowichan Capitals games, as well as holidays, and awareness days throughout each year.

Most recently, CowichanB次元官网网址檚 Big Stick was in the news last year for housing a rather pesky woodpecker. A plastic owl now sits atop one of the stickB次元官网网址檚 supports to dissuade any other potential residents.

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