A few of the charitable activities during the 17th Anniversary Season included the 5th Annual “Golden Spike” Golf Scramble, 2nd Annual “Pink in the
Rink” weekend, 17th Annual Teddy Bear Toss, special jersey auctions, Inaugural Relay At The Rink , as well as the donation of tickets, merchandise and memorabilia. In October the Nailers held the 2nd annual “Pink in the Rink” weekend to benefit local breast cancer patients. The Nailers presented a check for over $6,000 raised from the event to the local organization Ohio Valley Awareness Inc. to use for cancer patients in the Ohio Valley. OV Awareness Inc. uses the funds to provide boxed lunches to chemotherapy patients at the infusion center at The Cancer Center at OVMC. The organization is also purchasing three laptop computers for patients to use while receiving treatment. The Nailers have donated over $15,000 to Ohio Valley Awareness Inc. over the past two seasons. In March the Nailers teamed up with their local McDonalds owners and the Ronald McDonald House of Morgantown, West Virginia for a day of bowling. The event took place at three local bowling lanes in Wheeling, WV (Elm Grove lanes), St. Clairsville, OH (St. Clair Lanes) and Steubenville, OH (All-Star Lanes) and helped raise over $5,000 for the Ronald McDonald House. Nailers players along with McDonalds employees knocked down pins for charity a day of fun. A small list of the organizations that benefited from the Nailers donations include the Northern Panhandle Head Start, Mountain State Parents Child & Adolescent Network, Wheeling Soup Kitchen, WV Youth Advocate Programs, Special Olympics, Northwood Health Systems, Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Ohio Valley, Laughlin Memorial Chapel, Children’s Home of Wheeling, House of the Carpenter, St. Alphonsus Youth Center and many more. The Nailers players, as well as the Nailers mascots Spike and WesBanco Buck, made their presence felt in the community, as they made more than 108 appearances at numerous elementary schools, hospitals and community events and more during 2008-09. This tradition will continue in the off season as Spike and Buck will be all over the Ohio Valley this summer greeting fans. The Nailers extend a special thank you to their fans for helping to support the team’s charitable causes.
2009-10 Wheeling Nailers season ticket packages are on sale now starting at JUST $200 per seat. Kids season tickets as low as $180 per seat. For more information call the Nailers office at 304-234-4625 or online at www.wheelingnailers.com.