Jennifer Bailey\/The News-Gazette<\/a><\/p>\n\u00a0<\/p>\n
DANVILLE \u2014 Danville Iron junior hockey team owner and head coach Bo Cheesman said they chose to come to Danville and intentionally selected Friday\u2019s date for an official team community introduction because it was Danville\u2019s anniversary.<\/p>\n
Danville was founded on April 10, 1827.<\/p>\n
Hockey fans and supporters, Danville Mayor Rickey Williams Jr., state Rep. Brandun Schweizer and others were on hand for the press conference at the David S. Palmer Arena.<\/p>\n
Williams said the city has had hockey teams on and off for decades, but unfortunately for the last five to seven years, \u201cwe\u2019ve had some turmoil in this area. We\u2019ve had teams come and we\u2019ve had teams go. We\u2019ve had owners who treated their teams terribly and we\u2019ve had owners that were great. We\u2019ve had successes and we\u2019ve had failures.\u201d<\/p>\n
He remembers having the Danville Wings junior hockey team in the same vein as the Iron. He said he and the community is \u201cthrilled\u201d and \u201cexcited\u201d to have the team come to Danville<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Cheesman has a good reputation,\u201d Williams said. \u201cTheir success is our success. We want to integrate the players into this community.\u201d<\/p>\n
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