Oceania Hockey Federation Continental Improvement Officer Gill Gemming introduced his OHF Life Membership Badge and certificates to Kaluwin, who was surrounded by his household who wearing ceremonial apparel to rejoice Kaluwin’s achievements in addition to Independence Day.
Gill listed his achievements to the massive crowd, particularly noting that the substitute floor that the ceremony came about on was a becoming location to have the ceremony as this was a real legacy that Kaluwin achieved for hockey. It was his dream to have a full water floor and residential for hockey and he achieved this in 2015 by being a part of the Pacific Video games Amenities Committee guaranteeing {that a} hockey turf was construct and a magnifient pavilion. Kaluwin and his household enterprise was a key sponsor that supported many hockey athletes and officers to attend tournaments in Australia, Fiji, New Zealand, and Vanuatu. Kaluwin, final main contribution was to guide partnering with OHF to ascertain the Hook in4 Well being program and the appoint of three fulltime employees. His hockey legacy is continuous along with his son Andrew, appointed to teach the PNG Ladies’s crew whereas son Michael will handle the PNG Males’s crew at this 12 months’s Pacific Video games. Kaluwin and Theresa, his spouse, are having fun with watching the subsequent technology play hockey.
Kaluwin, with grandson Jacob, who was performs membership hockey within the males’s competiton watched collectively the opening day of the Independence Competitors.
Ray Lapun, the newly elected PNGHF President additionally paid tribute to Kaluwin and his mentoring and encouragement to most of the crowd that ateended. Items have been introduced on behalf of PNGHF and Associations. Members of the family additionally acknowledged Kaluwin.
After the formal shows the gang was entertained by fantastic dancing and this was adopted by the finals of the three day competitors held to rejoice Independence Da.y
