This wish has fueled Lilly’s close-knit family to make 500 hair scrunchies, raising more than $2800 to date with a goal of $10,000 and all proceeds going directly to the Children’s Wish Foundation of Canada.

"I feel like we pull on a string here and it's connected in so many other places you end up following it out to a whole sweater," said David Eby.

It comes in the wake of a report that found troubling signs of money laundering at the River Rock casino.