CARP – Good deeds deserve pizza – and the mayor delivered yesterday evening (March 17) as part of a city event to celebrate the West Carleton Warriors and their amazing achievements.

It was a St. Patrick’s Day party where the main colours were black and gold instead of the usual green at the W. Erskine Johnston Arena as Mayor Jim Watson and Coun. Eli El-Chantiry brought Carp Pizza for the team, coaches, parents and celebrants to honour the Warriors peewee A team for winning the Chevy Good Deeds Cup and earning $100,000 for West Carleton Disaster Relief.

While the mayor was unable to attend the Good Deeds Cup surprise presentation, West Carleton Online was. But Mayor Watson wanted to ensure he personally congratulated the team for winning a huge cash prize for their community.

Before pizza though the team had a little work to do. uOttawa Gee Gees assistant coach Brent Sullivan, a Carp native, put the team through its paces during an uptempo guest-coached practice. While the Warriors are well known for their off the ice exploits, the team still has playoffs on the go and faces Carleton Place this week in the league consolation finals.

But after practice, it was time to party. The team gathered upstairs in the West Carleton Amateur Sports Club to be honoured by the mayor for their achievement.

“You’ve got hockey involved, you’re giving back to the community, you’ve got the weather and you’ve got a small-town sense of responsibility to help a neighbour,” he told the team. “You see that in rural Ottawa, where people to that extra mile to help.”

Along with pizza, each player and coach was awarded with a certificate and a puck with a City of Ottawa logo secured to the surface.

While the 2018-2019 season gears down, the Warriors still have some big off-ice plans. The Warriors have scheduled May 25 for a spring clean up in Dunrobin. One that will be badly needed as the first winter following the Sept. 21 tornado recedes. The peewee team hopes all Warrior teams of all age groups, their families and supporters will come out help clean up the community.

“On top of manpower, we will need some people with chainsaws, trucks and trailers and we will need safety gear for volunteers,” the team wrote on their Facebook event page.