‘There’s way too many:’ Hats fundraiser for paralyzed Broncos player takes off
AIRDRIE, Alta. — A couple who offered to help with a promotion to fundraise for a paralyzed hockey player soon found themselves wearing too many hats.
Jason and Sue Bissonnette were making baseball caps to make money to help with the costs of Ryan Straschnitzki’s rehabilitation, but they couldn’t keep up when thousands of requests started rolling in.
“I thought maybe there will be a couple of hundred hats and we’ll do our part,” said Jason Bissonnette. “We’ll be part of a few grand or something, but of course that didn’t exactly work out that way.
“We’re now over 3,600 hats that have been ordered.”