Need a reason to smile? How about 23,000? Over the next week, 23,000 students, teachers, and administration in the City and County of Grande Prairie will get an extra smile delivered by hand, as the Sargent Family Foundation, Ken Sargent GMC, and Sean Sargent Toyota are out and about delivering Tim Hortons Smile Cookies.
Sean Sargent, who helps deliver the cookies in a fitted out A-Team van with all proceeds going to the Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation, says it’s one of the most looked forward to times of year on his calendar.
“As soon as we get to that first school and the eyes of the kids, and teachers, light up… everybody gets a good smile and kicks the day off great.”
“We buy, I think this year was 23,000 cookies, and that’s $46,000 going to the hospital foundation which will enhance patient care, and then I get to feel good delivering the cookies to students and staff!”
Sargent says in addition to the feel-good factor the week of deliveries brings, in the present day, he’s equally as excited as to how it could help shape others to do the same for generations to come.
“I’m delivering again this year for kids who are in grade 12, and when I started they would have been in Grade 1. Mostly, it also teaches them about philanthropy, so teachers can tell them why Tim Horton’s does this, why my family foundation does this, and hopefully we can help create some philanthropists in the future.
100 per cent of the proceeds of Smile Cookies sold in Grande Prairie between April 28 and May 4th will toward Grande Prairie Regional Hospital Foundation as well.
