Hockey Has Heart

Please email requests to John Stansik at <Arcticpond1@aol.com>. Include a short history of your circumstance, where your family fits into hockey, and what type of assistance that you are looking for. If you have any questions or comments please address them to John.
Thanks.

9/06: Hockey Family (26) Rellinger's (Livonia): Donation to pay medical bills . Mom on disability and Dad out of work. Son plays for Livonia.

10/06: Hockey Family (25) Johnson family of Troy: Father died suddenly at the age of 44. Coached Crank's 94 Pee Wee AA team and helped start the Troy Youth Hockey Association. Donation for educational fund for three children.

10/06: Hockey Family (24) Kleyn family from Jenison. Parents both suffering from health problems and unable to work. Son plays for Jenison High. Donation for medical and living expenses.

10/06: Hockey Family (23) Wright family of Livonia. Girls plays for Livonia hockey, father deceased. Donation to help with medical expenses and living expenses.

9/06: Hockey Family (22)Grzech family: 16 year old Little Caesar hockey player seriously hurt in a car accident. Donation to help pay for medical costs and assist with rehabilitation.

05/06 Hockey Family (20) Livonia hockey dad received a gift from HHH to purchase a hydraulic lift chair and to help pay for miscellaneous medical expenses from triple bypass surgery.

10/05 Hockey Family (17) - Root Family of Mason, MI. Tim was recently killed in a car accident leaving a wife and four children. HHH donated funds for education expenses for the four children.

06/05 Hockey Family (16) - Brad Stone College Scholarship Fund Request. Brad died of an asthma attack and played hockey in Flint. Donation of $500 made to the scholarship fund in his memory.

06/05 Hockey Family (15) - UP family requesting assistance with medical bills resulting from Father's open heart surgery. The family has two children in hockey. HHH gave a gift donation for medical expenses.

06/15/05 Hockey Family (14) - Father was killed when his ladder hit a power line. Wife and four children in family. Eldest currently plays hockey at Lakeland and FHHA prior to that. HHH contributed a gift donation for each child's education.

11/22/04 Hockey Organization (4) - HHH donated $5,000 to the D3 Sled Hockey program from the Great Lakes Sport City Arena in Fraser. This program is a therapeutic program designed for the disabled hockey player.

10/25/04 Hockey Family (13) - A member of the Livonia Over 30 league suffers a massive stroke and is presently going through intensive rehabilitation. HHH gave a gift donation to help with his home care with a gift.

10/05/04 Hockey Organization (3) - HHH donated new helmets to the Southgate Special Olympic Hockey Team.

10/02/04 Hockey Family (12) - A widow of a former hockey player is presented a gift donation from HHH for her three Children's Education Fund at the Red Wing vs. the Livonia Mens over 30 fundraiser game.

09/27/04 Hockey Family (11) - A widow of an Adult Hockey player that died suddenly of a heart attack in May. HHH gave a gift donation to each of his two children's education fund and a donation to his widow. Their son is a player in the Livonia Hockey Association and has been for the last eleven years.

09/27/04 Hockey Family (10) - A former hockey player from the Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey Association (Nathan Remmert) who broke his neck in a pool accident, received a Bowflex Versatrainer (a Bowflex designed for people in wheelchairs) from Nautilus and received a gift donation from HHH to help pay for his rehibilitation.

09/27/04 Hockey Family (9) - The sister of a Honey Baked hockey player of Grand Rapids, who underwent life saving open heart surgery at the UofM. HHH was able to help this family with a gift donation.

07/19/04 Hockey Organization (2) - FAR Special Hockey Program. HHH donated $5,000 to the FAR Flyers Hockey Team which serves over 80 athletes and is presently the only special needs hockey team in the state of Michigan. This year they competed in the international tournament in Washington, DC and came away with the coveted Heart Trophy which is presently installed in the Hockey Hall of Fame in Toronto. They are planning on defending their trophy in April 2005 in Toronto. This hockey program teaches life skills and provides a much needed opportunity to develop self-esteem and self-worth for their special hockey players.

05/01/04 Hockey Family (8) - A widow of a hockey player that played hockey three nights a week in an adult league and refereed at least two nights a week. He died on the ice on February 28th at Lakeland Ice Arena of an enlarged heart, he was only 34 years old. HHH was able to donate gift funds to his unborn child's educational fund. His first child was due a few months after his death.

04/23/04 Hockey Family (7) - Gloria Swenders, widow of Joseph from Livonia. Their son a player for the Livonia Hockey Association. HHH was able to help her with a gift donation.

02/14/04 Hockey Family (6) - A widow of an Ann Arbor Amateur Hockey Association member (Jeff Bourne) received a gift donation from HHH, presented to the family at the Red Wing Alumni vs. Michigan Hockey Alumni game on February 14, 2004 at Yost Arena in Ann Arbor.

12/10/03 Hockey Family (5) - A widow of a Livonia hockey player who died suddenly while playing adult hockey of a massive heart attack. The son sixteen is still playing hockey in the Livonia Hockey Association. HHH was able to donate gift funds to help pay for medical insurance for the son's pre-existing medical conditions.

11/26/03 Hockey Organization (1) - HHH delivers over $20,000 of new and used hockey equipment to the Clark Park Hockey Program in Detroit.

09/11/03 Hockey Player (4) - Mother of a Plymouth-Canton Hockey Player receives a gift donation to help pay expenses while the father was on medical disablilty.

08/16/03 Hockey Family (3) - HHH paid for funeral expenses of a seventeen-year-old hockey player who died.

06/01/03 Hockey Family (2) - Terry Gould receives a gift from HHH to defray the large amount of medical expenses from his heart transplant surgery.

03/29/03 Hockey Family (1)- Hockey player from the Kensingon Valley Hockey Association. HHH presented a gift donation to the family at a Red Wing Alumni Game Fundraiser to help them with their leave of absences from their jobs while they cared for their critically injured son from a near fatal car accident in December 2002. Tim was at the game and actually dropped the puck to start the game.