Todd and Christie Jenkins, founders of the Inland Empire’s first sled hockey program, are hoping to receive a major financial boost. In an e-mail, they relayed the following:

The
Southern California Sled Hockey Association is currently in the running
for a Pepsi Refresh grant in the amount of $25,000. If we get the
grant, it will provide enough funds to purchase new sleds, sticks,
safety gear and ice time for the whole program for a full season. In
order to get the funding we have to be in the top ten by October 31st.

What we need people to do is vote via the Pepsi Refresh website. There are three ways to vote:

1) Log on to http://www.refresheverything.com/sledhockey
and click “Vote for this idea”. The first time someone votes, they will
be asked to fill out a quick form for a free account, just to verify
that this is a real person and not a “robot” making proxy votes. Pepsi
does not send spam, and there is a box to check to opt out of future
mailings. After that, we just need people to log on and vote once per
day.

2) Instead (or in addition), people
can send votes via text message. Text 102873 to 73774 (Pepsi) once per
day. There is no sign-up here, and again no spam.

3) On Facebook, go to http://apps.facebook.com/pepsirefresh and do a search for “sled hockey” (we are the only program that will come up). This, too, is no-sign-up and no-spam.