The Estevan Kinettes Club’s annual Day of Kindness brought a lot of good to the community as members travelled around the city, doing large and small acts of good for others.
They meet at Tim Hortons at 10 a.m., and after about 30 minutes, they had figured out where they wanted to go and spread acts of kindness.
“The places we visited were Creighton Lodge, Affinity Place, the mall, St. Joseph’s Hospital long-term care facility and the maternity ward,” said Kristol Nagy, a member of the Kinettes. “At the mall we handed out some Bruin game tickets and we put some coins in the candy machines and in some of the massage chairs.”
The Kinettes Day of Kindness is never planned. Members just drop in to do some nice things for people. The residents at Creighton Lodge, for example, were certainly surprised when a group of Kinettes showed up to hand out flowers to residents.
“Handing out flowers to residents has always been more about a quick visit with each person, because some of them don’t get a lot of visitors and we like to bring a smile to people’s faces,” said Nagy.
“This year, for our hospital and other visits in the community, we made some goody bags with candies, activity books and socks with chap stick in each bag, and people really seemed to like that,” she added.
The Kinettes and Kinsmen Day of Kindness has being going for a number of years. The Kinsmen were out on Fed. 23 dropping off lunches to people at Estevan Diversified Services.
“The Kinsmen and Kinettes take part across Canada with this event on the same day to bring random acts of kindness to people and bring some awareness to the community of our club by doing kind gestures by the community,” she said.
Each year that goes by, some money is always put aside for special activities, including the Day of Kindness.
“We allocate a bit of money in our budget every year to make the Day of Kindness happen. Other than that, we try and do what we can to help out the community,” said Nagy.
“We like to surprise people wherever we can, in accordance to what fits in our budget. Additionally we do acts of kindness for all age groups and we always find lots of hugs, smiles and sometimes even tears, it is a truly great event to have,” she added.
