Like fellow O’Leary Elementary School students who guessed the Toronto Maple Leafs would win the Stanley Cup, Grade 5 student Olivia Dumville already knows she’s not going to win the school’s Stanley Cup lottery.
But Dumville is fine with that; the Maple Leafs fan knows the one dollar she spent for her guess is going to a good cause.
For several years now, the school’s physical education teacher, Jonathon McAvinn, has conducted a free lottery, giving each class a chance to predict the Stanley Cup champion, with the winning class getting a pizza party and an extra phys ed period.
That prize is still available, but for the individual students who guess the cup-winning team.
McAvinn said he decided to give students an opportunity to submit their individual guesses, at a dollar a guess, with all the money the lottery raised being sent in support of families of the highway tragedy in Saskatchewan that claimed the lives of 16 people on the Humboldt Broncos team bus.
“We talked about the tragedy and how important it is to help,” McAvinn said.
Along with the $200 the initiative raised, the school is sending an O’Leary Maroons Hockeyville ’17 jersey which has had the Broncos name added to it. O’Leary was the 2017 winner of the national Kraft Hockeyville title. The jersey has been signed by the school’s students and staff.
