We love our local OHL team, the Kitchener Rangers. Not just for they way they play, and how they are competing in the touch Midwest division. But how they give back to the community.

Like with their Teddy Bear Toss. Fans attending Tuesday’s game against the Erie Otters were encouraged to bring a new or gently-used teddy bear and when the Rangers score their first goal, throw them onto the ice.

Boy, did they!

Liam Maaskant scored the teddy bear goal in the Rangers’ 20th Annual Teddy Bear Toss, which collected a team-record 9,882 stuffed animals. The teddy bears were flying early, as Liam opening the scoring just 72 seconds into the first period. Darby Llewellyn set up the special tally with a pass from behind the net that connected with the captain near the blueline. 

The goal sparked a cascade of 9,882 bears, a new record for the Teddy Bear Toss. Over the past 20 years, Rangers fans have generously donated 111,154 stuffed animals to local charitable groups. 

We actively support the Rangers through our sponsorship. Make sure you follow us on Facebook and Twitter as we give away pairs of tickets on a weekly basis during the season.

Yesterday I received a nice e-mail from Mike Champagne, one of our Level 3 Support team members, talking about a cool customer he was helping with a technical issue. He was setting up an email client for her and she mentioned to him while they were on the call that he should check out her website.

It’s called Organized By Kerena and its a service for those of us who might be organizationally challenged, which I would assume means pretty much everyone.

The reason Kerena wanted Mike to visit was because of her Resources Tab where she recommends service providers to her clients, and there was Worldline!

Very cool to see one of our customers supporting us in this way; an unsolicited promotion due to the level of service we provide, along with the significant cost savings.

Mike thanked her and passed the story along and we thought that was that. Then this afternoon we received this Worldline review:

To anyone considering Worldline as their service provider for home phone, internet or long distance you can trust that you have made the best choice. I became a long distance customer in 2004 and instantly began saving and as services became available I signed on and have been using a bundle of home phone, internet and long distance for years, saving an additional $50.00 a month. Listen, the phone works, the internet is always there and I make phone calls to wherever I want, whenever I want and I have told Worldline to call me when they take on the cellular market.

As for their technical support, just today I had my email issue diagnosed and confirmed in under 10 minutes. It wasn’t a Worldline issue but Worldline resolved it for me. Second time that has happened. A line from my thank you email says it all, “As always, impeccable service with a smile I can feel through the phone!”

I am the owner of ORGANIZED by Kerena and as a service provider myself I place great importance on customer service, customer experience and value for money and that is why I have included Worldline on the Resource page of my website, http://www.organizedbykerena.com/#!resources/cxdu.

December 3, 2014

Kerena Randle

You’ve sold us Kerena! Thanks so much for the fabulous testimonial, and we all think your business rocks! We’ll be sure to share that around to our customers as well. Want to get organized? Then you should get Organized by Kerena.

Students and teachers at Centre Wellington District High School in Fergus pose with the superhero capes they’ve made for children fighting cancer. (Amanda Grant/CBC)

We love our Superhero kids. The characters are based on some of our own children and represent the authentic us. They stand for things like fairness, family and fun. That is us. So we love to see stories like the one below, where another group get together and embrace their inner Superhero and do something so awesomely nice for others, our national broadcaster gets involved.

Courtesy of the CBC: Students at the Centre Wellington District High School in Fergus are helping children with cancer get a boost, by making superhero capes for the children to wear.

The initiative is called “Kick It Capes” and began after Fergus teacher Kate Heasman brought the idea to Tracy Brubacher, who teaches clothing and fashion at the high school.

The students at CWDHS have taken to the cape project with gusto.

“Then they can be greater and do greater things and just feel good about themselves and also have that sense of play and bring back that kind of child aspect, because they have that taken away from them when they’re going through an illness like that,” said Taylor Francis, a student at CWDHS.

“A lot of the time thinking that you’ll come out of it, a lot of the time that happens. With these capes it gives a positive ‘Oh! we’re superheros. We can get through anything,'” said student Brodie Workman.

Check out the whole story here…

Congratulations to the great teachers and students at Fergus’ Centre Wellington District High School. You guys are awesome!