How These Teams Helped Build Communities through Hockey

The holidays are a time when communities come together and helping make their neighbourhood a better place. Many OMHA teams gave back to their communities through ways like food drives and donations. The OMHA is so proud of the efforts of all of our teams for knowing the values of respect and community.

Here are some of the submissions we have received over the last few weeks.

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Creating Awareness

Way to go Oilers in recognizing #FaceOffForMentalHealth weekend in Petrolia!@StClairChild @HometownHockey @hometownhockey_ @RonMacLeanHTH pic.twitter.com/VMGVKFpdDd
— PMHA (Official) (@PMHA_oilers) November 20, 2017

East Lambton Eagles & Strathroy go green for mental health #FaceOffForMentalHealth @HometownHockey @SickNotWeak @OHLHockey @kidsmentalhlth pic.twitter.com/7TgklDObMw
— St Clair Child &YS (@StClairChild) November 4, 2017

Food Drives

A big THANK YOU to the Caledon Rep Minor Hockey Association for hosting their 'Hawks for Hunger' food drive & donating almost 6,900 pounds of food to help feed Caledon families! Thanks to all the teams and the 250+ people who visited us at @CaledonExchange #Community #GivingBack pic.twitter.com/2eOUG3xnCU
— Caledon Community S. (@CaledonCS) November 18, 2017

Huge THANK YOU to the #Orangeville Tyke 2 Flyers for filling the toy sleigh in our lobby this afternoon! Your generosity will help many families in our community this Christmas!! Thanks for being #CommunityFocused !!! @WayneKalinski pic.twitter.com/SX5hXKxfnc
— Orangeville Police (@OrangevillePS) December 10, 2017

The @egeagles2009 brought in over 500lbs of food today. Great job! We like to help others in need by giving. #goeaglesgo #nevergiveupness #egmha #omha #team #donation

A post shared by East Gwillimbury Eagles (@egeagles2009) on Nov 26, 2017 at 12:50pm PST

Milton Atom AE White food drive for Food4kids.ca was a great success this weekend!! @MMHA_ON @MiltonOnSports @HometownHockey #givingbacktothecommunity pic.twitter.com/D5ZfVCjHU2
— Mark Gelinas (@GelinasMark) November 20, 2017

The Winterhawks ended up donating over $3100 to Food4Kids and also made a donation to Breast Cancer with the proceeds of a 50/50.

The Whitby Wildcats Minor Atom AA boys donated over 22 boxes of food for families in need in Durham Region. They discovered the holiday spirit by collecting non-perishable food items at each of their hockey practices in November and December. They happily delivered their collection to the firehall and received a tour. The boys were able to reflect on the importance of giving during the holiday season.

Here is our group having fun and spreading Christmas spirit https://t.co/KiBNucTeG6
— Central Ont Wolves (@COWmidgetAAA) December 15, 2017

The team is ready to deliver what they collected in November for the @Kaw_FoodShare food drive. Thanks to all that helped to pull this together and support a great initiative from these young men. @AAAMinorPetes @HometownHockey pic.twitter.com/IFoeIh8XJt
— Minor Bantam 2017/18 (@AAA_Petes_2004) December 21, 2017

Minor Bantam AAA do their share to support Brampton food drive @GOGB_Brampton #kidsfeedingkids pic.twitter.com/Sd8TU0xrfr
— Julianne Greenwood (@jugreenwood25) November 13, 2017

Gifts for the Holidays

Thank you to all the families of the #AtomAA #ClaringtonToros @NewsClarington @HometownHockey @NewsClarington @snapdClarington for donating 29 boxes this year! @shoeboxcanada pic.twitter.com/uT5BbVmH05
— Chrissy Allenby (@ChristineAllenb) December 12, 2017

In Remembrance

A special ceremony for @lasalle_sabres Nick Dyer tonight at Vollmer Centre. Dyer passed away earlier this year after a car accident. His #77 is now officially retired #cklw pic.twitter.com/VJ82TFZf7M
— Zander Broeckel (@zbroeckel800) December 8, 2017