River Town Times - January 8, 2020

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Admirals raise $6,100 for “Brave Brock” By Ron Giofu The town’s Jr. C hockey club has its share of fans and showed Dec. 29 they are also fans of a local boy battling cancer. The Integrity Amherstburg Admirals hosted “Brave Brock Night” prior to their game with the Wallaceburg Thunderhawks at the Libro Centre. The hockey club’s efforts saw approximately $6,100 be raised with proceeds to benefit ten-year-old Brock Hasson, an Amherstburg Public School student who is once again battling Embryonal Rhabdomyosarcoma. It is the third time he has battled the rare form of cancer in his young life. The Admirals worked with partners including the Windsor Police Service – Amherstburg Detachment, Integrity Tool and Mold, General Amherst High School, Amherstburg Buick GMC, the Windsor Spitfires and the Thunderhawks to help raise the funds. Brock’s older brother Liam dropped the puck for the ceremonial faceoff prior to the game. Admirals co-owner Wes Ewer said there were “a million reasons” the team put on the event, adding co-owners Matt Fox and Gaspare Spada immediately got on board with the idea when he brought it to them. He noted he saw how the community was pulling together for Brock and his family and wanted to assist as well. Ewer noted he organizes a charity hockey game with friends every holiday season and that proceeds this year went to the Hasson family. From that, the idea was hatched to also include the Admirals as part of the fundraising efforts. That charity game raised $900 of the $6,100 total. “We decided to do this for Brock,” said Ewer, adding the town donated an hour of ice time for the public skate before the game and Integrity Tool and Mold stepped up with a $1,500 donation. Officers with the Windsor Police Service – Amherstburg Detachment donated $440, Proto Plastics kicked in $1,000 while other businesses and groups donated

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Liam Hasson, older brother of Brock Hasson, drops the puck between Wallaceburg captain Jake Vancoillie (left) and Admirals captain Broden Meloche (right) as part of “Brave Brock Night” Dec. 29. The Admirals and their community partners raised $6,100 to aid Brock, who is battling cancer for the third time in his young life. in-kind items as well. “It’s cool to see everyone step up and help out,” said Ewer. “It’s great to see what a small community can do when it works together.” Donations were made at the public skate, which saw the Admirals players, their mascot “Addy” and the Spitfires’ mascot “Bomber” take part. Rally towels were sold and a pre-game ceremony was

held with Liam arriving at centre ice in a Camaro provided by Amherstburg Buick GMC. The Windsor Police Service – Amherstburg Detachment also had their vehicles on the ice for the opening ceremony as well, a ceremony observed by Brock himself as he was streamed live inside the arena from his hospital bed in London.

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