Burnaby Now April 13 2018

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JERSEYS FOR HUMBOLDT: HOCKEY STUDENTS PAY TRIBUTE TO BRONCOS

When words fail, jerseys speak Cornelia Naylor

cnaylor@burnabynow.com

Hockey players in the Burnaby school district were among thousands of Canadians across the country who donned jerseys Thursday to show support for the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash. The Humboldt Broncos junior hockey team was headed to Nipawin, Sask. for a playoff game on April 6, when the team bus collided with a semi-truck at a remote intersection. Sixteen passengers have died and 13 others were injured. #JerseysforHumboldt, an initiative started by a group of B.C. hockey parents, saw people across Canada wear hockey jerseys to school and work Thursday in support of the community. “It’s just a sense of solidarity and that sense of brotherhood,” said Maco Balkovec, director of an elite hockey academy based at Burnaby Central Secondary and coach of its midget prep team. “We’re all competing against each other, but we’re all in this really together, and I think it’s a good example of community coming together and people supporting other people in good times and bad.” All three teams in the Grade8-to-12 academy came to school wearing their academy jerseys, joining many other students and staff across the district who wore hockey jerseys of all kinds. Balkovec said the tragedy has Continued on page 8

SOLIDARITY:

Above, members of a Burnaby school district hockey academy whose teams play out of the Burnaby Winter Club taped the words “Broncos” and “Humboldt” onto the backs of their jerseys Thursday to show support for the victims of the Humboldt Broncos bus crash last Friday. At right, members of all three hockey academy teams pose in their jerseys in front of Burnaby Central Secondary . PHOTOS CORNELIA NAYLOR

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