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SMILE -‘It Takes a Village’!
Carol White
It’s amazing what can happen when ‘a village’ decides to meet a need.
In this picture, local Tim Hortons owners Darryn McPhail (West district) and Nelson Matos (East District) recently watched doctors and staff as they happily trained on this new ventilator.
left to right – Connie Vardy (CCH Foundation Executive Director), Darryn McPhail and Nelson Matos (Tim Hortons Owners), Dr. M.D. Nchama, Dr. S.D. Wickramasinghe, and Julie Lampron (Director, Diagnostic Imaging)
Scene 1 -Cornwall Community Hospital Pediatricians recently approached Dr. Rachel Navaneelan and Rachel’s Kids Board Member, Dr. Turcotte in the hopes Rachel’s Kids would fund one of this year’s urgent Capital needs, a $20,000 Si-Pap Ventilator. This new hi-tech piece of equipment provides gentle, effective, non-invasive ventilating support to neo-natal babies.
Scene 2 - Dr. Navaneelan approached Connie Vardy, Executive Director, Cornwall Community Hospital Foundation because Rachel’s Kids and its Board had a vision of their own – they wanted to take on a big project and give a much needed face lift to the Pediatric Unit at the Hospital. Connie assured Dr. Navaneelan she would find donors to meet the Si-Pap Ventilator need while Rachel’s Kids carried on with their refurbishing project. (Stay tuned for more news and photos on this great project.)
Enter, Tim Hortons and Smiles Cookies - Franchise owners the Hill and Moyer families, Corporate Tim Hortons, and our Community. 2009 Smiles Cookie Campaign raised $13,169 thanks to the purchase of these smiley-faced cookies by our community- $3,000 of the funds was directed to complete the Tim Horton Corporate Pledge of $50,000 to the Our Hospital Our Future Campaign. The balance of the cookie sales, over $10,000 went toward the Si-Pap Ventilator. Then, because of donors who answered a call to donate to in the Foundation’s 2009 Christmas Appeal directed their gifts to the Foundation’s “Greatest Priority”, the Smiles $10,000 donation was matched making $20,000 available to buy the Si-Pap ventilator.
The final scene shows smiling faces knowing ‘the village’ gave and the need was met! Many thanks to all!
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