Plan B is in effect for this year’s Timmins and District Hospital Foundation Christmas card fundraising campaign.
That’s because of the Canada Post strike.
The campaign raises money for priority projects at the hospital. Cards are mass mailed, and usually sent back with cheques in them.
Donor relations manager Barb McCormick says there are other ways of donating that don’t rely on the mail.
“They can either reach us by telephone; they can hand deliver those envelopes to us at the hospital; they can also look at using our online form and make their gift that way,” McCormick says.
This year, the campaign is dedicated to a large project in the intensive care unit.
“And we need to raise funds to purchase patient cardiac monitors,” she notes. “Those pieces of equipment are highly important to our nursing staff and our medical staff up there.”
Hindsight being what it is, the foundation realizes it should have planned to set up a donation centre at Timmins Square again this year.
