There will be a very fun and unique event at the Lakehead Thunderwolves mens hockey game this Saturday, November 15th between the Wolves and the York Lions. Saturdays game will see the first-ever Kidney Foundations Whoopee Cushion Night!
Wolves fans can buy Whoopee cushions at the door for only $2 and be a part of the action during the third period when the Gardens faithful will try to make the loudest bang ever heard at the Fort William Gardens; by all simultaneously sitting on their Whoopee cushions!
All proceeds support the local Kidney Foundation office and those living with kidney disease in the Thunder Bay area!
It is only fitting that the first-ever Kidney Foundations Whoopee Cushion Night in Thunder Bay takes place at a Wolves hockey game because the Whoopee Cushion is a Canadian tradition as proud as, well. Hockey! The Whoopee Cushion was invented in Toronto in 1930 by the JEM Rubber Company by employees who were experimenting with scrap sheets of rubber.
As far as can be ascertained on Google; the Canadian Simultaneous Whoopee Cushion Sit record of 2,873 was set on Sep. 25, 2004 at Wilfrid Laurier University for The Kidney Foundation at a Golden Hawks homecoming football game against the McMaster Marauders.
Approximately 6,000 sitters let it rip at a Kitchener Rangers OHL game for The Kidney Foundation but as the sitters werent registered; it perhaps didnt qualify as the Canadian or World record. From these two massive attempts; it could be postulated that Kitchener-Waterloo is a world capital of Whoopee; and a proud supporter of The Kidney Foundation.
The official World mark was set when 5,983 participants cut loose in Atlanta, Georgia on October 6, 2005.
So, come on out and support The Kidney Foundation this Saturday night and lets all show the people in Kitchener-Waterloo and the world that Thunder Bay can Whoopee with the best and continue this proud Canadian tradition in support of The Kidney Foundation.