major events, The Big Spring Auction & Gala. We sold out the Cunard Centre downtown and had over 700 people for dinner. We raised over $120,000 – which is huge. I’m very passionate about that kind of thing. We’re constantly giving away products to silent auctions and fundraisers.” “The other organization we’ve committed to working with in December 2016 is the MS Society of Canada – Atlantic Division,” Kevin explains. “We were at the MS Walk in May and realized we could create a hook to donate more. We’re still in the planning stages with them but it might be a special shirt we design and donate money to the Atlantic Division based on its sales. That’s a pretty special one. It’s close to home, I guess. I actually have MS myself. I was diagnosed in 2008, right in the heart of my curling - right when we were kind of at the top of our game. I’m still super competitive, but it slows me down a little bit. The driving force behind this company, for me, has been the fact that I don’t want to slow down; I want to keep going and that’s why I push myself every single day. What we’ve done, I think, in the last year- and-a-half is pretty amazing. Building our web presence. Selling more than 7,500 units. Shipping products to the U.S.,
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