Halfway Point through Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign for Children Hospitals.

The Tim Hortons Smile Cookie campaign reaches its midway mark on Thursday. To boost sales and participation, a special event has been organized at the Tim Hortons branch located at 470 Dundas St. E in Belleville, where local public officials will be invited to help frost the cookies.

t’s so important to have one of the new machines because as the population slowly ages, they’re going to need more of that type of medical assistance, so we’re very honoured and humbled to be able to be part of it.”” says Mark Hanley from support

“We’re just the conduit here, the in between, and so to see the community support the community is really amazing.”

“We still have three days to go so we’re really excited about how far we can push that and how successful we can see we can be,” Hanley said.

Hanley expresses gratitude, and says this year’s sales of Smile Cookies are doing well.

Government officials in attendance included Belleville Mayor Neil Ellis and Bay of Quinte MPP Todd Smith.