Hockey gamers in Chestermere are taking to the ice Saturday to play a consecutive 262-hour-long recreation to interrupt their report and lift funds for the Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital.
Forty gamers have to return collectively a number of instances since 2012 to each break the Guinness World File and lift almost $4 million.
“This previous yr has made all of us a lot extra conscious of the truth that to battle viruses and life-threatening illnesses, we want the most effective healthcare assets and the most effective science,” stated Alex Halat, the lead occasion organizer.
“We want children didn’t get most cancers. However they do they usually want us. And we expect Calgary/Chestermere and the encompassing space is able to make this the most important fundraiser but.”
Hockey Marathon says the funds are meant for the Alberta Youngsters’s Hospital Basis’s Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Experimental and Novel Therapies EXcellence (PHOENIX) program.
It’s an initiative geared toward offering kids with new most cancers remedies and cures with out “long-lasting uncomfortable side effects.”
As of Saturday, almost $467,000 has been raised.
The puck drops Saturday at 7 p.m. on the Chestermere Recreation Heart and can proceed till April 16.
Opening ceremonies begin at 6:15 p.m.
