Six Calgary Hitmen gamers hit the ice to boost funds for the Alberta Kids’s Hospital Neurosurgery Division, impressed by a really charitable little woman.
At solely two years previous, Tallyn Spring began elevating cash for the hospital.
This yr, for her eighth birthday, she put collectively a skating occasion with six Calgary Hitmen gamers to help the trigger.
“I form of needed like my skating to get larger this yr in my and so I needed to ask my mates if his brother and a few of his staff may come this yr,” Tallyn mentioned.
It began when her older sister Lette was identified with cerebral palsy and epilepsy and wanted mind surgical procedure.
This impressed Tallyn to assist others like her sister, creating consciousness and elevating funds for mind problems.
“So she took $100 out of her piggy financial institution and took that over to the Kids’s Hospital and from there it form of continued to develop,” mother Amy mentioned. “Her fourth birthday, she requested for no birthday presents, she simply needed cash to offer to Dr. Hader for him to proceed along with his epilepsy neurosurgery analysis and to assist him so they may proceed serving to her older sister who was preparing for her second mind surgical procedure.”
“For these households it’s a extremely lengthy and arduous highway to go down — watching your little one undergo that is by no means, by no means simple,” she added.
For the final three years, Tallyn and her household have hosted public skating occasions on her birthday.
Amy says they’ve raised $12,000 in six years and the aim for this yr is to boost $5,000 extra.
Tallyn is bringing in recruits to spice up publicity.
“My mates’ brother is a Hitmen participant and so I requested him if he may ask his mother if his brother can include a number of the different gamers,” she mentioned. “So this yr I’m doing skating with the Hitmen however the Hitmen are on the ice at the very same time as us so we will skate with the Hitmen.”
On Sunday, household, mates and the group obtained collectively to skate with six gamers of the Calgary junior staff.
Earlier than the occasion even began, Tallyn had reached her aim — elevating $5,356 {dollars}.
She has created a Fb web page referred to as ‘Siblings of Neurosurgery’ and is constant to work on elevating extra funds.
