Masks for Seniors Project
"It’s in difficult times that you really see our community pull together."
In a local effort to help seniors stay healthy during the pandemic, the Yorkton & District Community Foundation coordinated packaging and delivery of over 9,600 masks to senior housing properties in twenty-three communities - Yorkton, Melville, Canora, Langenburg, Sturgis, Churchbridge, Kamsack, Preeceville, Norquay, Bredenbury, Ituna, Buchanan, Stenen, McNutt, Springside, Saltcoats, Pelly, Tantallon, Grayson, Invermay, Dubuc, Calder, Theodore.
Visitors to shared senior housing properties were restricted on and off during the COVID-19 emergency. The Seniors Mask Project was an attempt to help these seniors to safely receive visitors and to move within the community when they could.
Each kit contains a reusable cloth mask, ten disposable masks and information about care and proper use of masks.
"Everyone involved in this project wants seniors to know that their community cares about them"
The "Masks for Seniors Project was coordinated by Yorkton & District Community Foundation on behalf of a group of concerned citizens and community partners. We sincerely thank the following business partners who donated to this project: Grain Millers, Legacy Co-op, Canadian Tire, Baileys Funeral Home, Southern Document Solutions, Inc (Xerox Canada, Ltd.), Yorkton Rotary Club, and seamstress Judith Stewart.