One of our veterans is behind a Branch donation, giving back to the Maple Ridge sports club where he found success as a teen.

Thanks to a request from Rob Seckler we donated $500 to the Maple Ridge Boxing Club.

Seckler, aka Punchy, was part of the boxing club as a teen. He fought out of the club for two and a half years from 1980 to 1983, and during that time he won the 106 pound division of the provincial Bronze Gloves championships in Cranbrook, B.C. when he was 14-years-old.

He would go on to win a handful of fights out of the Maple Ridge Club before moving onto to other clubs , winning the bronze, emerald, and silver gloves at different provincial championships between 1983-84.

Seckler thought he would turn pro, but when a friend was injured in the ring, he had second thoughts, envisioning a life of multiple concussions and various other injuries.

So, he joined the army instead in 1985 when he was 17-years-old.

Read the full story at Maple Ridge Pitt Meadows News

We are so very thankful to be a part of this feel-good, full-circle, member's story and happy to help out all the very worthy community organizations!