Bring Socks to the Canucks vs Flames game, February 12

VANCOUVER -- Bring a pair of white sports socks with you to the Canucks game against the Calgary Flames on Saturday, February 12 and help out a good cause – Sox in the City.

On game night, volunteers from the West End/Coal Harbour Community Policing Centre and members from the Vancouver Police Department will be collecting donations of socks to benefit the homeless on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside.

You can make your socks donation at the Community Corner kiosk, located in Section 111, on the main concourse of Rogers Arena.

At last year’s Sox in the City night, generous Canucks’ fans donated more than 400 pairs of socks to the annual cause.

The socks will be used by staff at the LifeSkills Centre on Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside. The centre is a first point of contact into the neighbourhood’s health and service programs for many of the homeless people on the Downtown Eastside. The drop-in centre offers basic health care as well as safe refuge for the homeless.

Dry warm feet are a must as the wet winter weather arrives in Vancouver. Nowhere is this need greater than in the Downtown Eastside where many people have infected lesions on their feet and toes, caused by walking as many as 20 miles every day in ill-fitting shoes and without socks.

VCH is responsible for the delivery of $2.9 billion in community, hospital and residential care to more than one million people in communities, including Richmond, Vancouver, the North Shore, Sunshine Coast, Sea to Sky corridor, Powell River, Bella Bella and Bella Coola.

MEDIA CONTACT:

Trudi Beutel
Public Affairs Officer
Vancouver Coastal Health
Phone: 604-708-5282
Cell: 604-812-1847
Trudi.Beutel@vch.ca