Tim Horton’s is bringing more smiles to new moms and babies in Yellowknife with proceeds of their smile cookie sales going to the Stanton Hospital Foundation’s Paediatric and Obstetric care.
Patty Olexin-Lang, the foundation’s executive director says campaigns like Tim Horton’s smile cookie week can go a long way to helping the hospital with their wish list.
Stanton has a wish list of items that the foundation fundraises for. Curently, the Paediatrics and Obstetrics unit are looking to bring in more bassinets and a high tech emergency simulator to the unit.
Olexin-Lang added that the pediatrics ward is always looking for comfort items like extra toys and activities for the kids.
The specialized simulator equipment would help enhance the emergency preparedness of medical staff during situations like an emergency delivery.
“These simulators are amazing nowadays technology, and they’re able to simulate all kinds of different situations,,” explained Olexin-Lang.
Olexin-Lang said board members from Stanton are planning an event at Tim Horton’s on Old Airport Road on Thursday over the lunch hour. They will be helping to decorate and hand out smile cookies, handing them to customers.
Olexin-Lang explained that this week Tim Horton’s locations across Canada support over 600 local charities.
Back in 1996, the original Tim Hortons restaurant in Hamilton, Ont. first raised funds to support the local Children’s Hospital. Over three decades smile cookies have raised a total of more than $150 million for charities and community groups. Just last year, about $22.6 million from smile cookie sales proceeds supported over 600 charities and community groups.
Last spring more than 5,000 smile Cookies were sold in Yellowknife. The proceeds went to state-of-the-art Neo Natal incubator and warmer and bassinets for premy babies at Stanton Territorial Hospital.
Tim Hortons in Yellowknife also topped up the cookie sales proceeds with a donation.
“Tim Hortons has donated, back for the week over ten thousand dollars the last couple years,” added Olexin-Lang, who said Stanton was extremely grateful to everyone who purchased a smile cookie and grateful to Tim Horton’s.
The Smile Cookie mission now continues from April 27th to May 3rd Tim Horton’s locations across Canada supporting over 600 local charities everything from hospitals to sporting groups and other non-profit organizations.
Anyone who would like more information can head to the Stanton Territorial Foundation’s Facebook site and the Tim Horton’s website.
