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www.insideHALTON.com | OAKVILLE BEAVER | Friday, January 8, 2016 | 36 MOHA collects 20,791 pounds for Gift of Giving Back food drive Canada's largest community food drive grew even larger this year as Oakville's Minor Oaks Hockey Association teamed up with Burlington hockey organizations. MOHA participated in this year's 10th annual Gift of Giving Back food drive, an initiative started by the Burlington City Rep Hockey Club that has provided more than one million pounds of food to Burlington families in need over the past decade. Food donations collected by MOHA teams in December totalled 20,791 lbs. The Gift of Giving Back, which also includes participation by the Burlington Girls Hockey Club (Barracudas) and Burlington Cougars junior A team, mandated that in its 10th anniversary year it would mentor two other commuSwiss goalie Chiara Pfosi (30) kicks out her leg to deny the Oakville Hornets' Brooke Jovanovich a goal in Tuesday's exhibition game at Joshua's Creek Arenas. Oakville rallied to win 4-3 over the U18 Switzerland team on a goal by Annie MacDonald with 50 seconds to play. | photo by Michael Ivanin ­ special to Oakville Beaver nities and help them create similar results. Oakville and Brampton were the two communities selected to join the Gift of Giving Back, which has collected a cumulative value of $2.5 million in food donations -- including 300,000 pounds of food in Burlington in 2015. "The first five years were spent overcoming obstacles and finding ways to maximize our contribution to the community, which has allowed us to be very productive in the last five years," said Kim LaRonde, of the Burlington Mall, lead sponsor for Burlington and a Gift of Giving Back volunteer. "We didn't want other cities to have to struggle through the first five years recreating the program from scratch, so our volunteer team decided to reach out to other Will Blakely, left, and Bowen Mahoney (left photo) and their Oakville peewee AAA Rangers teammates purchased groceries at No Frills recently to support the Gift of Giving Back food drive. In right photo, Minor Oaks Hockey Association officials, Salvation Army representatives and Gift of Giving Back representatives were at MOHA headquarters with groceries accumulated by more than 1,500 young hockey players. It's the first year the Oakville hockey association has participated in the food drive that was started 10 years ago by the Burlington City Rep Hockey Club. | photos by Michael Ivanin ­ Special to the Beaver communities and mentor them for their first year." Representatives from the Salvation Army, one of six member agencies in Halton Region that benefits from the food drive, were at the MOHA office to support Oakville hockey in its efforts. "It is amazing how quickly people come together to support each other when you have such a great cause and when the kids lead the way with their unshakable belief that they have the ability to make a difference" said Jean Longfield, co-founder of the Gift of Giving Back. "We hope everyone supports the kids and helps them make this a reality." Other benefactors from the Gift of Giving Back are Partnership West, Carpenter Hospice, Compassion Society, Halton Women's Place and Compass Point. For more information, visit www.giftofgivingback.ca. PWHL Jr. Hornets Tier 1-leading Tigers win edge U18 Swiss Wave H.S. hockey tourney Annie MacDonald's last-minute goal lifted the Oakville Hornets to a 4-3 win over Team Switzerland Tuesday. 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