Derrick Beardsworth: University Of Moncton

Boys And Girls Club Dept: The season is a particular shock for many of them, says Derrick Beardsworth, director of program services. Learning to skate is one way to make dealing with winter a little easier, he said, according to CBC. The club hopes to collect 100 pairs of children's skates by February, when skating lessons with members of the men's and women's hockey teams from the University of Moncton begin and the Boys and Girls Club in Moncton has launched a campaign to collect ice skates as part of an effort to help refugee and immigrant children adapt to winter. "A lot of these kids, who sometimes have never seen ice before, have never seen snow, are new to Canada. We're trying to integrate them into Canadian sports," Beardsworth said. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.