OLDS — On April 7, in honour of Green Shirt Day, Hildebrand Motors will once again be holding a promotion to encourage more people to donate their organs and raise money for the cause.
From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. that day, several organ recipients -- Cliff Tuggle, Kathy Rowland, Barbara Hannah-Dodman and Jennifer Lynch -- will be sitting at a table at the dealership encouraging people to fill out and sign cards to donate their organs.
This marks the second year in a row they’ve done so.
“We have a lung recipient, two kidney recipients and a liver recipient,” says Hildebrand Motors customer relations manager Carla Taylor.
As they did last year, during the month of April, Hildebrand Motors will donate $100 per vehicle sold to the Second Chance at Life Trail Ride Society.
That group subsidizes places for people to stay while they’re awaiting or recovering from organ transplant operations.
Coffee and donuts will also be available for those who stop by.
Green Shirt Day is personal for Carla and her husband because he received a lung transplant last year.
Green Shirt Day was created in the wake of the passing of Logan Boulet.
Boulet, the grandson of Roland and Angelina Boulet of Olds, died April 7, 2018 of injuries sustained after a collision the previous day between a bus carrying players and staff of the Humboldt Broncos hockey team and a semi-trailer about 250 kilometres northeast of Saskatoon.
Sixteen people were killed and 13 were injured that day, including Olds resident Graysen Cameron.
After Logan passed away, his parents, Bernadine and Toby of Lethbridge, donated his organs so that six lives could be saved. Logan had previously made that wish to donate known to his parents. Toby is a former Olds resident.
As a result, April 7 is known as Green Shirt Day, a day to pay tribute to Logan and others killed or injured in the bus crash and to encourage Canadians to register to have their organs donated.
