WATCH: One family in the GTA will enjoy a white Christmas, thanks to a nearby ski resort. Minna Rhee reports.
TORONTO – A Greater Toronto Area ski resort is lifting the spirits of one Ontario family this holiday season by delivering a dump truck full of snow onto their front lawn just in time for Christmas.
Jackie Robinson of Bowmanville and her two boys entered the unusual contest a week ago and were chosen as the winners on Monday.
“Word went out, it gained speed and the entries started rolling in from all over the GTA and some from as far away as BC, but we had a distance cap of 150km from our resort,” said Brimacombe General Manager Mark Rutherford in an email to Global News.
The ski resort received over 150 entries and it took five employees more than four hours to find the eventual winner.
“We asked people to tell us a little about their family and why we should send them snow for the holidays,” said Rutherford. “Wow, the stories ranged from hilarious to heartbreaking. We had no idea that the task of picking a winner was going to be so difficult.”
Robinson is the mother of two boys, 8 and 11, with the oldest having to spend each week away to attend a school for the blind as he has low vision.
With warm temperatures hovering over southern Ontario and a white Christmas unlikely, Brimacombe decided it would be worth it to give a deserving family a chance at a white Christmas — although a man-made variety.
“In the end we wish we could give a bunch of truck loads away but the reality is our business survives on the white stuff and we have been extremely challenged to even make it this year with the marginal temperatures we have been getting,” said Rutherford.
Rutherford says 25 yards of snow was delivered Tuesday morning which is approximately 2,000 square feet in size and four inches deep.
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