Toronto hockey community sending 18 tonnes of gear to indigenous communities – CBC

Northern communities are ‘all about hockey’ but need the gear so kids can play, donor says

Jan 05, 2017

That giant pile of hockey equipment you’re looking at? Here’s what’s in it:

• 18 tonnes of miscellaneous gear
• 5,000 jerseys
• 1,000 pairs of skates

That’s a lot of gear. And the Etobicoke group that plans to donate all of it to indigenous communities in northern Ontario say they hope it will make a lot of kids very happy.

Anyway you put it, it’s a lot of hockey gear — and it’s going to make a lot of kids, very happy.

Gerald Lue, a member of the Etobicoke Rotary Club, came up with the idea after visiting Fort Hope, Ont., a community some 500 kilometres north of Thunder Bay.

Read More: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/hockey-gear-donation-1.3922503