Economic Support & Recovery: Greater Together

With people around the world trying to figure out how resume doing the things they love, a Sudbury, Ont. company has found a way to get golfers safely back on the links.

Marc Benoit, owner Lively-based A10 Fabrication, has invented an innovative golf ball retriever he has dubbed, 'Hole Out.'

Hole Out is a touchless ball retriever that is inserted into the bottom of the flagpole. It has metal hooks on the top (covered in shrink wrap to avoid scratching putters) attached to a thin pipe that connects to a circular plate on the bottom that goes into the hole.

To retrieve their ball, golfers lift the hooks with their putter, and it pops out. Read more.

What started as a side-job to fill a community need has become so much more for Sudbury Steam Cleaners, inspiring the family-run organization to revamp its mask campaign to provide direct funding to local non-profits.

A little more than two months ago, the Nickel-city based laundry and dry cleaning organization began manufacturing masks with the promise that for every mask purchased, another would be donated. It was an overwhelming success. Read more.

After putting $20,000 towards purchasing PPE for Ontario’s healthcare workers, a gaming company with two locations in the Sudbury area is doubling down on their donation.

Delta Bingo and Gaming has already raised almost an additional $8,000 through GoFundMe that will go towards purchasing face shields for frontline workers across the province. Read more.

Nickel miner Vale Canada and Wheaton Precious Metals, one of the world's largest precious metals streaming companies, teamed up to donate $200,000 to United Way Centraide North East Ontario’s (UWCNEO) COVID-19 Community Response Fund.

The donation will provide emergency support for community members that are most in need through UWCNEO’s network of partners.

“Vale has a long history of support for the United Way,” said Dino Otranto, chief operating officer for Vale’s North Atlantic Operations, said in May 21 news release. Read more.

Sudbury’s Miners for Cancer has announced a $100,000 donation for the Northern Cancer Foundation’s COVID-19 Support Fund.

The money will go towards the purchase of 58 new and vital Infusion System + Full IV-EHR Interoperability pumps needed on the frontline to provide quality cancer patient treatment to the community’s most vulnerable patients. Read more.

A team of North Bay high school robotics students and a Sudbury-based med-tech startup are among the winners of the Vale COVID-19 Challenge.

In early April, the Brazilian nickel-mining giant announced a challenge seeking innovative solutions that could be rapidly commercialized to address problems posed by the novel coronavirus pandemic.

Vale agreed to put forward up to USD$1 million in funding to help get the successful ideas to markket. Read more.

The latest gesture of appreciation for essential workers is coming from a Sudbury-based printing company.

Journal Printing, which has remained active throughout the pandemic, has produced a new Sudbury-focused colouring book featuring essential workers from different industries.

"What we have been looking at is trying to figure out how we can contribute during these crazy times," said Cosimo Micelotta, owner and general manager of Journal Printing. "So, we thought well we're printers, so why don't we print a colouring book?" Read more.

A soup, sandwich and donut combo on Saturdays and pizza on Sundays are now on the weekend menu at the Elgin Street Mission.

The MacKenzie Family, who owns five Tim Horton's locations in Sudbury, and Great Lakes Pizza have both made donations to help feed the city's most vulnerable population over the next several weeks.

"We live in an awesome community and we're trying to support them," said Marian MacKenzie. Read more.

For the last six weeks, Dan Xilon, Executive Director, Sudbury Food Bank, has been asking Sudburians to consider making cash donations to the food bank in lieu of donating non-perishables, and the Greater Sudbury community has been generous in its support.

Laking Toyota is the latest local business to step up. Owner Chris Laking has matched a gift from the Toyota Motor Corporation to provide a total of $10,000 to the Sudbury Food Bank’s Cash for Cans Campaign. Read more.

Crosscut Distillery was able to work with Plan A Sudbury to ship out cases of hand sanitizer to front line workers at Temiskaming Hospital, North Shore Health Network (Blind River) and Espanola Regional Hospital and Health Centre. Learn more.