Humboldt shirt shop donates $304K to community foundation
A Humboldt-based apparel company is providing a big boost to the Humboldt Strong Community Foundation.
Spotlight Sport and Corporate Wear gave the foundation a cheque for $304,239.90 this week — money raised through the sale of thousands of “We Are Humboldt Strong” t-shirts and sweaters in the wake of the Broncos bus tragedy.
They started production of the shirts about 18 hours after the April 6 crash, which left 16 players and staff of the SJHL team dead and injured 13 others.
“The first two or three weeks we had been telling people we were overwhelmed, but really when I think back now it was just chaos,” said Mike Yager, president of Spotlight.