For six months beginning June 20, 2016, Canadian Gold Beverages, owner and producer of Pic-a-Pop, will start donating two cents of every bottle of Pic-a-Pop sold in Manitoba to the Braden Pettinger Trust Account.
Defenseman Braden Pettinger, 20, of the Portage La Prairie Terriers, suffered severe injuries after crashing head-first into the boards at a game against the Winnipeg Blues on November 12, 2015. In April, 2016, the Manitoba Junior Hockey League final kicked off with a special tribute to the injured player. Braden wheeled himself onto the ice and dropped the puck to start a game in Portage la Prairie. The Terriers announced that Braden’s jersey will be retired and hung it in the rafters at the PCU Centre.
Money raised in this campaign will help the Pettinger family with their fund raising for Braden’s recovery from a serious Hockey injury which left him paralyzed back in 2015. Money will go towards making Braden’s home wheelchair accessible, offering him some independence on mobility, as well as helping with ongoing out-of-province physiotherapy cost.
Braden’s plan this summer is to leave the hospital and spend some time at his home as well as traveling to Regina to continue on with physiotherapy on his road to recovery.
