Police, fire rivals unite to benefit Humboldt
LETHBRIDGE – Cst. Spencer Hodgson of Lethbridge Police and Lethbridge firefighter Phil Marischuk were texting each other, discussing the Humboldt tragedy.
The result of that conversation is Badges United, a charity hockey game to benefit the Humboldt Broncos Sunday, April 22 at the ENMAX Centre. All proceeds raised will go to support the Saskatchewan junior-A team following the crash of their team bus April 6, which claimed 16 lives.
“We want to make sure that we have them well in our hearts,” Hodgson explained. “We see tragedy far too much in our jobs, and we know that our hearts ache right now for that community. We know that we’ve got a local part to this as well, with the Boulet family, and we want to make sure that they know that we have their – in our world it’s called their “six” – we want to make sure that they know that we have that.”
Hodgson played junior-B hockey with the Kootenay International Junior Hockey League’s Grand Forks Border Bruins. He remembers the many bus trips, in occasionally hazardous conditions.