When local hockey player Noah Harrison’s grandmother recently passed away it hit him very hard.
But it didn’t take him long to come up with a way to cherish her memory.
Noah, with the help of a few friends, set up a hockey net and a lot of pucks – taking 1,300 shots, or one shot for every dollar pledged, in Rosemary Harrison’s memory, so $1,300 in pledges was raised for the Heart and Stroke Foundation.
Noah split last hockey season between the Fundy Thunder of the Nova Scotia Minor Midget Hockey League, the Cumberland Blues of the Nova Scotia Junior Hockey League and the Halifax McDonald’s Macs of the Nova Scotia Major Midget Hockey League.
Shooting 22 pucks at a time, it took him several hours to complete the task of shooting the 1,300 shots at once and left him with numerous blisters and some very sore hands – something that would require a trip to the hospital the following day to have them wrapped in gauze. While he thinks she is probably looking down at him with pride at what he accomplished in her memory, he joked that she’s also thinking he was a little nuts for doing it.
Despite the pain he experienced, Noah’s already looking ahead to doing it again next year.
Way to go Noah keep up the great work, your Grandmother would be proud!
-Ian
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