Page 12 - Sports Energy News, Cornwall, Issue No 141

12 Issue 141 October 2024
Elliot Lefebvre, Fundraising for Canadian
Cancer Society
By Christine Ouellet play the game he loves since then.”
Elliot continues, “When I decided
efending the net to defend to do this challenge, also I thought
Dlives, Elliot Lefebvre, a about friends whose moms and
10-year-old from Char-Lan Minor grandmas have had to miss seeing
Hockey Association, has set his them play hockey because of cancer.
goals for this fall, and they go There is also a little boy who goes
beyond making the Rep team. to my school that would love to
Hockey is Elliot’s favourite play hockey, but he can’t right now
sport, and he loves every minute because of his cancer treatments.”
of being in the crease. He says, “ With all of those things on his
When I heard about the October mind, it fueled his passion to start
Saves Goalie challenge, I knew it his fundraising campaign.
would be something I should do.
Every time I walk into the Long Every October the goalie nation
Sault arena I think about Parker, a gathers to make a difference in the
boy my age who I used to always fight to end cancer. They turn stopped
play against. He was diagnosed pucks into powerful lifesaving
with cancer and hasn’t been able to weapons through fundraising efforts
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that directly support the Canadian
Cancer Society. To emphasize his
support for the cause, Elliot has
begun taping his stick with pink tape
and writing the names of people he
cares about who are battling cancer
on his goalie stick.
Throughout October, there will
be posters up in the arena at his
games dedicating his saves in
honour of the people he cares about
who are battling cancer. Elliot
has raised an incredible $725 as
of this writing, and his goal is to
raise as much as he can to help
people with cancer stay out of the
Photo Submitted hospital and stay in our arenas.
The challenge ends November 10,
2024. For further information go
to: fundraisemyway.cancer.ca .
Bob Hardy Completes the
Great Raisin River Foot
Race in 40:29 Minutes
Photo by Jeff Poissant