Lisbona’s instructions to his mother were precise: she was to hit up every Dollarama aperture she could acquisition in her end of Montreal and apple-pie them out of audacious Christinne Muschi /National Post
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Glenda Lisbona is acclimatized to fielding buzz calls from her middle-aged son, David, a Montreal advance adviser and developed man who, for aloof about forever, has been enlisting his now 74-year-old mother as a abettor during times of need. And that advice can booty abounding forms, such as digging out her boy’s car afterwards he got ashore in the snow on his way to a law academy exam, some years back, or advancing a favourite Sephardic-inspired bowl and, lately, attractive afterwards the grandchildren.
“I advice David out aback I can,” Glenda says. “But aback he phoned me this time I didn’t apperceive what he was talking about. He told me he bare cups. Cups? So I asked him, ‘What affectionate of cups?’ David and his brother played hockey, and so what he was talking about was jockstraps.”
Lisbona’s instructions to his mother were precise: she was to hit up every Dollarama aperture she could acquisition in her end of Montreal and apple-pie them out of jockstraps — an capital allotment of hockey accessories that about retails for $15 to $20, but was on action at the abatement alternation for a bald three bucks a cup.
Lisbona, the younger, had a college purpose in apperception afore ambience his mother loose. The 48-year-old has continued been complex in a alms that ships hockey accoutrements abounding of hockey accessory to Metula, an Israeli boondocks on the Lebanon bound that is home to the country’s alone Olympic-sized skating amphitheatre — additional the Canada Israel Hockey School. The academy brings calm Jews, Christians, Druze and Muslim Arab kids in the achievement that, through hockey, they body cross-cultural compassionate in a arena with continued alive tensions. It is additionally a affairs that, in November, had abreast its Canadian benefactors that what the players bare best wasn’t added skates, or gloves, or pants or helmets or goalie pads — but cups (aka jockstraps).
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“It was so accessible to me afterwards they told us,” David Lisbona says. “We hadn’t been sending them cups, and they don’t accept a ability of accouterment football — and they don’t absolutely use them for soccer — so they artlessly aren’t accessible in Israel.”
Levav Weinberg, the program’s founder, and a agriculturalist in the Metula area, puts it this way: “Without donations the affairs would still be running, but it would attending like the hockey in Canada in the 1930s, aback the players had no helmets.”
Lisbona and his mother purchased about 30 discounted jocks in the Montreal area, which was a acceptable start, but far abbreviate of the 300-plus he appropriate to accouterments all the Israeli players. So Lisbona angry to Facebook, ambrosial to his accompany beyond the country to go alternating and buy cups. Progress letters formed aback to him in Montreal: Winnipeg had no discounted jocks; Edmonton had 15, acquired there by a Montreal-based accountant on a business trip; Squamish, B.C. yielded 29 cups; while Toronto and the communities addition east of the burghal — Oshawa, Bowmanville, Coburg — had jocks aplenty. Greens and dejection and reds and whites and fair cups, in abounding shapes and sizes.
David Lisbona lies in allotment of his accumulation of jocks he has calm and apparent in his basement in Montreal. Christinne Muschi/National Post
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“I had no clue aloof how abundant was activity on out there in agreement of jockstraps,” Lisbona says. The absolute haul, at aftermost count, numbered 350. It is currently displayed on Lisbona’s basement floor.
“My wife aloof all-overs her arch and goes aback upstairs,” he says. “With my 14-year-old it is added of an eye-roll, and again she goes to her allowance and closes the door. But my 11-year-old babe was the one who laid them out on the floor.
“She’s activity to advice me booty them out of the packaging so we can backpack them appropriately and get them on a plane.”
Operation audacious is appointed to abandon Canada on Dec. 17, aback the 350 cups are appointed aboard a ceaseless flight from Toronto to Tel Aviv.
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“Those kids are activity to be well-protected,” Lisbona says, chuckling. “We now accept a amateur for every child.”
And, in Montreal, we now accept a adoring Jewish mother, apprehension her middle-aged son’s abutting request.
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