Marcus, Ethan and Alexander Angelone
ETHAN’S BIG HEART A 12-YEAR-OLD RAISES $2,500 FOR MSH’S COVID-19 RELIEF FUND WITH A T-SHIRT HE DESIGNED | BY VAWN HIMMELSBACH
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iving back to the community isn’t just for corporations — or grown-ups. Ethan Angelone was inspired to fundraise for MSH’s COVID-19 Relief Fund, raising close to $2,500 by designing and selling t-shirts. Ethan is 12 years old, however that didn’t stop him from coming up with an idea, spreading the word about his fundraiser and even learning how to use a spreadsheet (with a little help from his parents, Sylvia and Julian). “It was really fun, actually,” says Ethan. “I liked using the spreadsheet, I liked seeing how much people cared about the fundraiser and I liked going around to people’s houses and delivering the t-shirts. My teacher even ordered one.” He came up with the idea to fundraise while his family was sitting around the dinner table, talking about 6
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how so many other families were struggling during the pandemic. Yet, Ethan and his two brothers were “eating like kings,” so he started to think about how he could make a difference. Ethan’s first thought was a bake sale, “then I realized how messy it would get.” He landed on the idea of
selling t-shirts and immediately set to designing a logo — a heart with a heartbeat running through it. “I wanted it to be for everybody,” he says, “so I drew a home [inside the heart], because everybody is staying home.” The Angelones then contacted a family friend, Jim Paras from the T-shirt Gang, who produced the Stay Safe Stay Home t-shirts at cost. Ethan decided that all money raised would go toward MSH’s COVID-19 Relief Fund. His dad Julian, a builder and founder of Angelone Homes, is an event sponsor and supporter of the MSH Foundation. Ethan and his brothers were all born at MSH and his family lives in the community, only five kilometres from the hospital. “We were talking to our children about how we wish we could help other people more during this time and thinking about who to donate to,” says Sylvia.
