The Burnaby lacrosse community will get a warm and fuzzy feeling this season following a donation of socks to the Burnaby Task Force on Homelessness.
Burnaby Minor lacrosse purchased more than 600 pairs of custom-made sport socks to compliment the team uniforms from Your City Sports, a supplier of athletic foot coverings that in turn donates a pair back to a homeless charity in that community for every item sold.
“It’s a community thing,” said Burnaby Minor Lacrosse Club secretary Debbie Heard. “We wanted socks and this was a good thing to do because it’s good for two sides.”
The Burnaby Lakers junior and senior teams also partnered with the minor association in the purchase of the socks.
The association will make the presentation to the local homeless task force at the club’s annual Deschner Days season-opening lacrosse tournament at the Bill Copeland Sports Complex at around noon on Saturday.
“This was something the executive felt very strongly about … so anything we could do to help our own community was a huge plus,” Heard said in a release.
Every season, the Burnaby Minor lacrosse club kicks the season off with Deschner Days weekend, an event that features exhibition box lacrosse games for all the association teams, with a club-wide celebration.
The weekend begins on Saturday with a pancake breakfast from 9 a.m. until noon hosted by the Burnaby Lions Club – championed by Marg Deschner, the wido of the late Frank Deschner, who was a longtime Burnaby lacrosse volunteer and the namesake of the event.
A parade around the hardwood floor of the Bill Copeland Sports Centre will showcase all the Burnaby teams follows the breakfast.
Presentations, including the B.C. Lacrosse banner to the Burnaby club as last season’s association of the year, will also be made.
At this time, the donation of 600 pairs of socks to the Burnaby Task Force on Homeless will be made.
A representative from the task force and Your City Sports will be in attendance to accept the club’s donation.
Your City Sports was conceived in 2013 and has donated more than 13,000 pairs of socks to various charities in the Lower Mainland in the past year.
You can learn more about these organizations at www.burnabylacrosse.com, www.burnabyhomelesstaskforce.org and www.yourcitysports.com
