Members of the Nanaimo Clippers Hockey Club are trading in their suits for overalls to help seniors with their lawns during COVID-19.
The club will be offering lawn services, like mowing or weeding, at no cost for seniors and front line workers in the Nanaimo area.
This is not the first initiative taken by the team during the pandemic. The hockey organization has been quite active since the end of their season, implementing programs for children like Teaching Tuesdays, Thankful Thursdays and Easter Deliveries.
“We’ve done a lot for our younger fans,” said team governor and general manager Tali Campbell, “Then we realized the majority of our fan base is a senior demographic, and I thought, ‘what can we do?'”
So Campbell and coaching staff will be lending a helping hand, or lawnmower, to anyone in need of lawn maintenance who cannot do it themselves.
“We are offering this to seniors, front line workers and anyone who isn’t able to mow their lawn right now.” Campbell added “we offer this type of stuff because the only way we will get through this, is helping one another.”
It’s a community effort, as the hardware store Lowes has donated a lawnmower to the team to help with this initiative.
Rebecca Lawrence
