It was a telephone call seven years ago that changed the course of Mark Gage’s life. A friend who volunteered for a hockey program called to ask if Mark would help with a hockey practice - one of the other volunteers was sick. With no background information, armed...
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HEROS International 2018
The countries of Ireland and Northern Ireland are filled with many wonders and each have a rich cultural heritage that people around the world identify with. It also has a tumultuous and violent past that saw the country split into two factions that has left cultural,...
HEROS Player Profile – Nicholas Wilson
Friendships, opportunities, and motivation – that is what HEROS Hockey means to Nicholas Wilson. He is a successful young man with a story that’s inspiring to many. His single mother raised both him and his sister while trying to make ends meet with the little they...
HEROS Volunteer Profile – Tony Wray
Tony Wray’s day job may be as a Speech Pathologist for the Toronto District School Board, but his positive impact reaches well beyond the classroom. Tony began his journey with HEROS in 2009 as an extra set of hands on the ice to help with the program. He hadn’t set...
Announcing Super HEROS
“I’m a HERO, I’m a hockey player, I belong.” This is the Super HEROS mantra, the newest program from HEROS Hockey located in Calgary. Super HEROS provides a safe, welcoming, and inclusive environment to youth with cognitive challenges, including Autism and Down...
Hockey In The Harbour Fundraising Gala
Join us in supporting HEROS at our gala fundraising dinner following our second annual HEROS participants ball hockey event and harbour tour. What: Fundraising dinner and HEROS ball hockey event When: 5:30 pm, Wednesday, September 19th, 2018 Where: Pipeshop and...
Sven Scores for HEROS
Sven Baertschi has been an Ambassador for HEROS dating back to the start of his NHL career in Calgary, and more recently with the Vancouver Canucks. Sven has spent lots of time on the ice with HEROS participants, provided autographed items for year end awards, hosted...
The true meaning of resiliency
The HEROS program (Hockey Education Reaching Out Society) is an initiative that launched in Vancouver, Canada in 2000 and has since expanded across the country. HEROS has engaged over 7200 boys and girls in 20 programs in 9 cities. HEROS is a program that helps...
Celebrating Canadians
Canada Day is a day for Canadians to plunk down on sidewalks and watch the parades. It's a day to acknowledge all those before us who have worked to give us such an incredible quality of life. But Canada Day is also an opportunity for us to celebrate the people that...
From Mentee to Mentor: A HEROS Success Story
The HEROS program (Hockey Reaching Out Society) is an incredible cross-Canada initiative supporting youth in at-risk neighbourhoods, but it is about so much more than just hockey. HEROS is about more than the skills and the drills and the ‘on-ice’ moments. While...