Bringing socks to the Canucks vs Stars Game January 21

VANCOUVER -- Bring a pair of white sports socks with you to the Canucks versus Stars game on January 21 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 GM Place.

The socks will be used by health care staff at Vancouver Coastal Health’s Health Contact Centre. The centre, located at Main and Hastings streets, is a first point of contact into Vancouver Coastal Health’s programs and services for many of the homeless people on the Downtown Eastside. The drop-in centre offers basic health care as well as safe refuge.

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 no socks.

The Health Contact Centre is a first point of contact into Vancouver Coastal Health’s programs and services for many of the homeless people on the Downtown Eastside. The drop-in centre, located just off the corner of Main and Hastings, offers basic health care as well as safe refuge. One of the most important foot-care needs is a pair of clean, dry 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.

For media enquiries, contact:

Vancouver Coastal Health
Trudi Beutel, Public Affairs Officer
Tel: 604-812-1847