Delivering 'Safe Smiles' masks to One Kids Place

Local children receiving care at One Kids Place and the North Bay Regional Health Centre are benefiting from the Safe Smiles Campaign.

Former NHLer Adam Graves with the Smilezone Foundation visited the Children’s Treatment Centre on Thursday to donate 200 reusable masks.

He tells BayToday local residents can involved too, by purchasing the masks, which feature their logo of a sun and a smile.

“If anyone from the public wants to buy masks and certainly in the North Bay area, it’ll be sent to their address and that will be documented, so for every mask that is sold locally a mask will donated to the two centres here and put a smile on a kid’s face,” he says.

One Kids Place Executive Director Brenda Loubert says they’re honoured to receive the masks, pointing out they have worked with the Smilezone Foundation in the past.

“They have been a big part of OKP through our history, they’ve done some work with this facility as well as the facility in Parry Sound, it’s been our pleasure to continue to work with them over the years,” she tells BayToday.

Check out ‘safe smiles’ at smilezone.com for more.

The Smilezone Foundation is planning to transform six spaces at the North Bay Regional Health Centre into Smilezones, with colourful paint and beautiful murals.

It was orginally planned for this past spring, but has been pushed back to next year because of the pandemic.

The spaces will be located in the main pediatric hallway, four pediatric treatment rooms, and the pediatrics main entrance.

Four Smilezones were created at the hospital and two at OKP in 2016.

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