British Columbian athletes “hand” out warmth
Posted Feb 13, 2011 07:21:24 AM.
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Sometimes sports isn’t about who wins and loses, it’s about the lessons we learn.
British Columbian athletes competing in the 2011 Canada Games proved sports can be used for so much more yesterday, when they took the time to make a heart-warming gesture to Halifax children.
The team provided several boxes full of mittens and other winter clothing as part of an athlete-led project dubbed “Hands Across the Country.”
The project was inspired in part by the red mittens with Canadian flags on them that became famous during the 2010 Olympic Winter Games in Vancouver.
The team said the gesture “demonstrates the social responsibility and mobilizes the goodwill that Team BC members feel as participants in a national event.”
Some of the items were distributed to homeless shelters in the communities where the 340 athletes, coaches and mission staff reside.
Several more boxes of clothing were packed up and brought to Nova Scotia for donation to Halifax-area boys and girls clubs.
