Council honours Logan Boulet

By Lethbridge Herald on March 9, 2021.

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Tim Kalinowski
Lethbridge Herald
tkalinowski@lethbridgeherald.com
City council voted unanimously to proclaim April 7 “Green Shirt Day” in honour of hometown hero Logan Boulet, and to increase awareness of the importance of organ donation.
Coun. Blain Hyggen sponsored the motion on behalf of city council, and thanked his council colleagues for their words of support in discussion of the motion.
He also addressed some councillors’ questions on why doesn’t city council just approve a standing proclamation which can be applied year to year.
Hyggen said the yearly Green Shirt Day proclamation was a way to further honour Boulet, who directly saved six people’s lives by donating his own organs after being fatally wounded in the Humboldt Broncos accident in April of 2018, and to also recognize Boulet for the countless other lives he has saved now, and in the years to come, by inspiring tens of thousands of others to fill out their organ donor cards.
“It gives us the opportunity for us to discuss this each year,” Hyggen said, “rather than having a proclamation that is ongoing. I just think it is extremely important. My resolution speaks to not only how many lives Logan had saved, but the multiple others, 150,000, that have signed up (to donate).
“I thank my colleagues for their support, and I hope we are all wearing green shirts on April 7.”
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