Friday, December 13, 2019 3 Brooklin Town Crier The Whitby Minor Pee Wee AA Blue hockey team, all but two of whom live in Brooklin, collected over 155 pairs of new socks recently for the children of Durham region. They've donated them to Socks Brooklin, a local chapter of an organization that provides socks to the homeless and needy. The organization, which began just five years ago with the motto "Warming hearts by warming toes," has over 20 such chapters throughout eastern Ontario. According to its web site sockswarminghearts.com, every month more than 800,000 Canadians rely on food banks, and socks are one of the most needed and least donated items to these facilities. "Socks are more than an article of clothing to those who have so little," it states. "They offer warmth, health, a symbol that someone is looking out for them, ownership, and pride. Socks make the forgotten poor feel wanted and loved again." Team members: Willem Serviss, Jake Lannegar, Noah Murray, Matt Tavares, Ethan Freshwater, Liam Hoben, Lucas Burley, Mikah Fryer-Wilson, Caleb Ryan, Ryan Marsh, Terry McDonnell, Ronan Miller, Brady Westlake, Ryker Babcock, Griffin Jannes, Michael Costanza and Christian Luciano Hockey Players Donate To Socks Brooklin