Earlier this year, McKee received an undisclosed sum of cash - somewhere in the hundreds - courtesy of the Baby Ducks, a Calgary-based ball hockey team McKee plays on. When his teammates found about his mother’s death, the team and the league they play in pitched in money.
“They said, ‘use this for something charitable - donate it to charity or do something kind of like that with it,” he said from his home in Alberta.
McKee came up with the idea of donating the money to a family or group that has been hit hard due to COVID-19. His goal is to help someone who may be about to have a rough Christmas season - people who lost their jobs or people who have lost significant portions of their savings or wages, for instance. McKee took nominations from people for their families, friends, coworkers, neighbours or any other people close to them.