Okotoks brewing company Hubtown recently donated to Canadian veterans support group Wounded Warriors, a charity that supports veterans with mental health issues.

The brewery donated half the proceeds from their 1882 craft beer that was sold throughout COVID-19 via delivery. 

Okotoks veteran Todd Martin says he's impressed with Hubtown for wanting to get involved and for using their popularity to help others.

"The fact that they are able to use their creativity, their marketing and brand to build a sense of community and have them be the, pardon the pun, Hub of activity, with the pandemic obviously there's no in-store sales so the donation we got was just from delivery of only one of their products so it was great."

The donation came out to be $425.25 towards Wounded Warriors Canada.

Martin says he has been with Wounded Warriors for awhile and ended up getting involved with Hubtown by accident.

"I was sitting in Hubtown chatting with Lisa about the ride we do each year and she said they would love to get involved with it, so a few weeks go by and I get a call saying they had selected Wounded Warriors as their charity for their "Every Ounce Counts" campaign which is Hubtowns initiative.  So, every month a new charity gets selected and at the end of the month, they count up the proceeds and cut a cheque."

Hubtown has been donating back to the community and doing various community events for a while including their "Isolation Mug Club" which helped donate $10,000 to the Okotoks Food Bank. 

Martin says he is so proud to help out Wounded Warriors and have the opportunity to have mental health seriously talked about.

"The whole effort for raising money for Wounded Warriors is so we can have a conversation about mental health and that it's okay to ask for help and it's okay to talk about and it's not something to be looked down on for or pushed to the corner."

 

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