The Domtar Dryden Mill is supporting the community with several donations of masks, as concerns of the second wave of COVID-19 increase across Ontario.
The mill has provided 4-thousand disposable face masks to all Dryden schools.
Domtar’s Bonny Skene says with students back in the classroom, it’s important to support the community.
“Now that a number of other things are opening up in the community, including schools, we had the ability to make this donation and wanted to do that to support health and safety of those in our community.”
The Kenora District Services Board is also welcoming a donation of face masks from the Dryden mill.
The local mill donated 12-thousand masks to the Northwestern Health Unit and KDSB to help keep their staff and the people they serve safe.
The KDSB will distribute the masks to their Early Years programs, Northwest Emergency Medical Services, and area emergency shelters.
Skene says the donation of masks during this time goes hand and hand with Domtar’s community involvement.
“As our mill manager says, we’re a tight nit community and we need to be helping where we can, so we saw this as an opportunity to do that and we’re glad to do it.”
KDSB Chief Administrative Officer Henry Wall says the gift embodies the spirit of Northern Ontario of working together and supporting each other.
Eagle Lake First Nation and Wabigoon Lake Ojibway Nation also recently received a total of 2-thousand masks.
