We know there has been a lot of confusion in our community around what is happening with the satellite Cancer Clinic located at the North Bay Regional Health Centre and how it affects our current and future patients.
We want to try and help clear up any misunderstanding with with the following key facts you need to know right now.
Patients at the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) and One Kids Place Children’s Treatment Centre are now benefitting from the exciting Smilezone transformations revealed at both organizations in a special unveiling held today.
Scott Bachly, Chair of the Smilezone Foundation says their organization is honoured to be a part of the NBRHC and One Kid’s Place Children’s Treatment Centre transformations. “This has been such a unique installation for us and we are overjoyed to have transformed six new Zones within the two facilities,” Bachly says.
Emma, a 16 year old patient at NBRHC’s Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit (CAMHU), says the unit has a much more relaxing atmosphere since the renovations by Smilezone, and appreciates the outdoor theme. “Seeing all the different paintings of the outdoor stuff—like the camping and the waterfalls—it’s kind of brought outside inside. Things like the beanbag chairs and the paintings make it feel much more comfortable, and it’s much more ‘homey’,” Emma says. She says the renovations have helped ease anxieties. “In this place you can kind of feel like you’re trapped—but I feel like this really helps. It makes you feel more comfortable.”
NBRHC’s CAMHU was a plain and simple environment. With the installation of the Smilezones, hallways are now vibrant areas, brought to life with beautiful murals depicting our unique northern scenery. The kitchen, where children spend time doing activities and learning life skills, has been converted into a lively space with a campfire mural and giant whiteboard. The TV/media room incorporates an iPad station, beautiful cabinetry with a nature movie background. Inspiring wall graphics and a tactile station revamped the yoga, Wii and activity room.
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“This facelift from Smilezone has transformed our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit into a bright, colourful and functional area for our youth to receive care and recover,” said Paul Heinrich, NBRHC President and CEO. “As our patients have told us, the colour and imagery is uplifting and soothing and we are grateful to the Smilezone Foundation for the improvement to our healing environment.” Heinrich says.
The two Smilezones at One Kids Place Children’s Treatment Centre are both incredible spaces to advance the treatment for kids.
With a wonderful outdoor theme, the Thomson Resource Room is vibrant and functional space for families to enjoy while waiting to see their therapist or pediatrician. Both families and therapists will enjoy the Smilezone for the combination between the exciting theme of the North Bay Battalion and the functionality of the new seating and cupboards for the Loan Equipment Program.
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The second Smilezone, a mountain themed therapy room, will be used for a wide range of therapy with the low
level traversing wall, the cushioned safe environment for kids working on the therapeutic swings or enjoying the soft play area while interacting and working with their therapist. This very functional space will truly help children and youth reach their full potential.
“One Kids Place is extremely thankful to the Smilezone Foundation for their generosity to the children, youth and families we serve,” Denis Filiatrault, Executive Director of One Kids Place says. “The two Smilezones are a true benefit to our therapists, the children, youth and families we serve and will definitely put a smile on the kids face for a long time to come.”
“We are grateful that Smilezone Foundation allowed the Battalion to be involved with the installation at One Kids Place,” said Battalion President Mike Griffin. “Over the last two seasons our players have been frequent visitors to the facility while assisting staff and our logo being permanently displayed makes our partnership even stronger.”
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Contacts:
| Lindsay Smylie Smith Communications Specialist, NBRHC Lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca 705-495-7592 |
Jason Corbett Director of Development and Community Relations, OKP jasonc@onekidsplace.ca 705-477-2430 |
SMILEZONE FOUNDATION
Smilezone Foundation is a registered charity committed to “putting smiles on children’s faces”. The charity, founded by Adam Graves and Scott Bachly in 2012, established the overarching mission of assisting children, and their families, who are facing difficult times and health challenges. Smilezone’s mission is to create, build and transform areas (“Zones”) in hospitals, private treatment and development centres, and children’s clinics, in order to improve the lives of children facing illness, disabilities, and physical and emotional obstacles—ultimately putting a smile on their faces. Visit smilezone.com for more information.
NORTH BAY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE
The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) is a unique health care organization that provides acute care for North Bay and area, is the district referral centre for the Region and is the specialized mental health provider for Northeastern Ontario. For more information, visit www.nbrhc.on.ca.
CHILD AND ADOLESCENT MENTAL HEALTH UNIT
The Child and Adolescent Mental Health Unit at the North Bay Regional Health Centre provides crisis and specialized mental health services to children in Nipissing and Temiskaming Districts. Caring for over 120 children annually, the unit has six-beds. Working with community partners, such as North Bay Regional Child and Youth Mental Health Program, TheFamilyHelpNetwork.ca (HANDS) and the North Eastern Ontario Family and Children’s Services (NEOFACS), this new model of care brings together the expertise, skills and processes of each organization. Children and their families are now receiving better acute, long term and follow-up care, close to home.
NORTH BAY REGIONAL HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATION
The NBRHC Foundation raises funds to ensure that your Health Centre can continue to expand hospital services, develop new programs, and bring leading-edge medical technology and treatment to the people of North Bay and regional communities. Through generous support of donors, the community helps ensure that the best health care will always be within reach.
The community has a long-standing history of supporting the Health Centre through the Foundation, which was founded in 1999. Successful campaigns include $18 million for the construction of NBRHC during the Caring for Generations campaign and $6.2 million for Seeing More Clearly: A campaign for an MRI and more.
ONE KIDS PLACE CHILDREN’S TREATMENT CENTRE
One Kids Place Children’s Treatment Centre (OKP) provides rehabilitation services to children and youth (up to the age of 19) and their families residing in the Districts of Muskoka, Nipissing and Parry Sound. OKP provides centre based and community based services in the areas of Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Speech and Language Pathology, Social Work, Therapeutic Recreation and Behavior Therapy. Specialized services are provided across the region including Augmentative and Alternative Communication Program; Seating and Mobility Services; Developmental Clinic; Feeding and Swallowing Services and Orthopaedic Clinic. OKP is the lead agency for the Nipissing Timiskaming Preschool Speech and Language Program and the Muskoka Parry Sound Preschool Speech and Language Program. OKP provides services to the Infant Hearing Program and Blind Low Vision Program and is also the lead agency for the North East Applied Behaviour Analysis Program for children and youth with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
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In November patients and some staff were treated to a very special show in the auditorium at NBRHC’s 50 College Drive campus.
The auditorium was full for the 9:30 am concert by the Robb Nash Project – NBRHC was one of 9 stops for the band in our region and the first time Robb has ever played in a hospital.
The Robb Nash Project engages young people through the power of music and words, encouraging them to make positive life choices and lead lives of significance and purpose.
Following a life-threatening accident as a teenager, Robb Nash, lead singer and voice of the Robb Nash Project, experienced anger, self-doubt and depression. After working through these issues and recovering from significant physical injuries, the highly acclaimed musician found his passion: connecting to young people with rock music and meaningful lyrics.
Through personal stories, song and video, Robb sensitively deals with serious issues including drug and alcohol addiction, bullying, self-harm, depression and suicide. He inspires youth to stay hopeful, recognize their unique strengths and make positive choices.
Robb and his band tour across Canada performing more than 150 concerts each year in schools, detention centres, First Nations communities and other venues. For each of the past three years, the Robb Nash Project has presented live to over 50,000 young people. Robb also stays connected to his audience through Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and his website.
Audience feedback from students and educators consistently includes stories of remarkable personal breakthrough, realization of self-worth and personal growth. The Robb Nash Project is a message of strength and hope at a time when many youth need it most.
More information about the Robb Nash Project can be found here.
You can read an article about Rob Nash in this article from the Washington Post or watch a video from Washington Post here.
A number of community partners (including NBRHC) worked together for more than a year to bring Robb and his band to the community. The major sponsors are Nipissing First Nation and Canadian Mental Health Association – Nipissing Branch, and supported by Bell Let’s Talk.
North Bay and surrounding communities can help the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) receive a grant up to $50,000 simply by voting online.
NBRHC Foundation is competing against hundreds of charities for an Aviva Community Fund Grant. If successful, this grant will support the state-of-the-art surgical equipment for patients with cancer in your community.
You can vote for NBRHC online until October 28th and help your Health Centre become one of 30 finalist organizations. A panel of judges will select the Grand Prize winners who will share $1 million in funding.
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Media Contact:
Lindsay Smylie Smith
Communications Specialist, NBRHC
705-495-7592
lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca
Music has always been a part of Brad Armstrong’s life. Now a seasoned guitar player, Armstrong first learned how to play music on another instrument. “My mother was Polish/Ukranian, so I actually started out playing the accordion. I did that until kids would tease me about what was in the case and I got too embarrassed. I switched over to the guitar around 13 or 14,” he remembers.
These days, Armstrong says he doesn’t go far without his guitar. “It’s my prized possession,” he says. That’s why, shortly after being admitted to the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) as an inpatient on the hospital’s surgical unit, he asked for a friend to bring along his guitar.
“I was very scared to be here in the hospital,” he says. “The staff here have made me feel so comfortable and took all the fear away from me,” Armstrong says, his voice filled with emotion. It was then he started looking for a way to give back—and naturally, his first thought was through music.
Armstrong was put in touch with Emily Morin, a Recreation Therapist on the hospital’s inpatient rehabilitation floor. Morin says she met with Armstrong and he shared with her his desire to play his guitar for other patients, and Morin set out to line up a time and place for him to play on their unit. “It was fantastic,” Morin says about Armstrong’s nearly 90 minute performance. “It was very therapeutic for him [Armstrong], and then we had patients filtering out of their rooms who never usually get involved in programming—I think because Brad was so dynamic in his performance.”
Patients and their families were soon joined by nurses, clerks, personal support workers and environmental services staff in taking in the performance. “Brad has such a wealth of musical knowledge he was able to play requests from the audience, and in no time everyone was clapping and singing, patients were even dancing in their chairs,’ Morin says.
Armstrong pictured here during his performance on the hospital’s Inpatient Rehab Unit.
Patti Byers, Manager of the unit where Armstrong played, says they often have music programming, but Armstrong’s performance was anything but ordinary. “When I walked by and saw the music was coming from a patient—who was actually performing in a gown and hooked up to an IV—I actually did a double take,” Byers says. “His performance created this amazing atmosphere, not only for the patients, but for our staff and visitors as well. I think having a performance by an inpatient made it even more special.”
Armstrong says the experience was so important for him. “When I don’t play [my guitar] for a few days it feels like I haven’t played for a few years,” he says. “I just felt so welcome, and so great. Just seeing the smiles and the happiness I brought to the people that were there really touched me.”
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Contact:
Lindsay Smylie Smith, Communications Specialist, NBRHC
Lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca
NBRHC patients, staff and the community celebrated and recognized the completion of the final photoVOICE principle Strength-based with a gallery and showcase in the NBRHC gymnasium.
The series saw over 1000 pictures taken during the 10 of photoVOICE at NBRHC with 65 participants taking part in the program.
The participants dedicated their time and efforts over many weeks and compiled numerous pictures that were Strength Based to them. Each participant chose two pictures that meant the most to them to display at this celebration. Each participant worked very hard and deserve to be celebrated.
PhotoVOICE is a creative modality that puts camera’s into the hands of individuals directly affected by the principle and brings their unheard voices forward through pictures that capture moments they wish to remember and those that they wish to change. The NBRHC has recognized the power of photoVOICE to amplify the patient’s voice, to promote mental/physical health recovery, to create systemic change and to be used as a powerful tool in the fight against stigma.
Here are the ten principles of the photoVOICE journey:
Mary says she thought gardening would be ‘too difficult’. Mary, a mental health patient at the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC), was approached by another Mary, Mary Chamberlain who is a Recreational Therapist in NBRHC’s Mental Health & Law Division, about taking part in a new Horticultural program. “I thought I wouldn’t know how to do it – it would be too complicated,” Mary says. “But Mary [Chamberlain] taught me how easy it is.”
Chamberlain says a need was identified at the hospital to address healthy eating, healthy food choices and exercise. “Horticulture therapy is one way to promote healthy eating and exercise within our hospital,” she says. Research shows gardening is good for mental health, well-being and the reduction of stress and depression. “We also know that when you participate in growing your own fruits and vegetables, you are more likely to eat four or more servings a day.”
Chamberlain leads a small group of patients who meet regularly to garden both at the Health Centre and in the community. “Our group started by planting seedlings in February or March,” Chamberlain says. “We talked together about what we wanted our gardens to look like, what work we needed to do. Then when the snow melted we saw what we had to do and got started.”
Together the patients planted vegetables in the six raised beds and flowers in the ground outside. Mary planted pumpkin, green pepper, and zucchini seeds. “She [Mary Chamberlain] had to teach me how to do this because I had never gardened before. I had to learn that we have to water the plants every other day – and sing to them,” Mary says with a laugh. “The only other plants I had before were artificial plants in my apartment.”
Chamberlain says the patients in the program got very involved in the process and were excited to watch their seedlings grow. “As soon as I would come onto the unit, patients are eagerly asking me about gardening, they are interested in seeing the progress of what they’ve done; what they’ve grown.”
This enthusiasm even translated into after hour ‘assignments’. “Because we’ve had such a hot, dry, summer, I had asked some of the patients if they would water at night on their own off unit privileges which are authorized by the clinical team,” Chamberlain says. “We knew that watering in the afternoon in the full sun was just burning the plants and the water was evaporating.”
Chamberlain says a patient volunteered and came out each night at 7:00 pm to water the garden.
This kind of team effort lead to gardens that were flourishing by mid-July.
Owl Lodge, a general secure 16-bed co-ed unit in NBRHC’s Mental Health and the Law program, boasts another of the hospitals patient-led gardens. Brett Nesbitt, a Registered Practical Nurse, says patients put a lot of work to get the garden ready this year after years of not being used. “This year when we started the garden again there was nothing but weeds. We started very late in the growing season – the garden didn’t get planted until the third week of June,” Nesbitt says. “It was probably 30 hours of work to clean it all up and get planted.’ Nesbitt says the majority of the plants and items used on the unit came from staff donations, as well as donations from the horticulture centre here in the hospital. “Every day we are out here with one or two patients – weeding, watering, cleaning, picking vegetables, eating them.”
Michel stands among the tomato plants in the garden on Owl Lodge.
One of the patients who took part in the garden on Owl Lodge is Michel. Michel says gardening is his favourite activity, and takes particular pride in the tomatoes, corn and squash he has watched grow. “I just put the seeds in, and what we see here now is unbelievable,” Michel says, gesturing to the garden behind him. He says he enjoys gardening when he has a chance because he gets to spend time outdoors, and the vegetables they grow are healthy and affordable. “I think if I am discharged from here I would come back and continue with the garden even if I wasn’t paid. I would volunteer there.”
As the weeks went by and the workload became less for the garden at the Health Centre, Chamberlain says they looked to use the skills to help give back to the community. “That’s where our partnership started with the North Bay Heritage Gardeners,” Chamberlain explains.
The North Bay Heritage Gardeners is the volunteer group responsible for the maintenance of the vast amount of beautiful gardens along North Bay’s waterfront. The group designated a portion as the ‘hospital’ garden, and every other week in the summer Chamberlain and a group of patients travel there to take care of the area. “The skills our patients have learned here, we are incorporating into the community while also giving back to the City of North Bay,” Chamberlain says.
Mark and Mary Chamberlain together in their Heritage Gardener Volunteer shirts take a break from cleaning up the NBRHC garden along North Bay’s waterfront.
Mark is one of the patients who actively participated in the garden at both the Health Centre and at the waterfront. He says he enjoys the time he has been able to spend gardening and would like to expand the offerings they have at the waterfront. “I’d love to be able to plant some flowers to bring some colour down here and beautify the space,” he says.
As the summer drew to a close, Mark was one of the patients who gathered to prepare themselves a lunch with the actual fruits [veggies] of their labour. The group made a pasta dish-made from zucchini ‘noodles’—with a tomato sauce and salad filled with greens, cucumbers, tomatoes and peppers.
The group gathered to make a meal from the vegetables they grew in their garden.
“We want to show that is doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive to grow your own food,” Chamberlain says. “We’ve grown things in tuna cans, old margarine containers, anything we have available. It’s just so nice for the patients to have the experience of growing their own food and having a delicious and nutritious lunch—and to know they can do this for themselves even upon discharge. They don’t need farmland or acreage to grow healthy foods for themselves.”
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Contact:
Lindsay Smylie Smith, Communications Specialist, NBRHC
Lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca
The North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBRHC) Foundation, together with Floyd and Ruby MacMillan of North Bay, have spent the last month surprising four teams at the Health Centre with grants supporting their work providing for a variety of mental health needs for our patients.
In 2007, the MacMillan family created the Maria MacMillan Endowment Fund for Mental Health in memory of their daughter, serving as both a celebration of her life and a commitment to caring for others. Maria, a Nipissing University graduate with dreams of devoting her life to helping others, sadly passed away on May 6, 2006 after a courageous battle with an eating disorder.
The 2016 Recipients of the Maria MacMillan Endowment Grants are:
Mental Health and Addictions – The $1,100 grant will support a supportive training program for patients, focussed on managing their mental illness. It is a recovery model based on five key elements – Hope/ Self Advocacy / Education / Self-Responsibility.
Sandy Sikora, Peer Support Specialist, Mental Health and Addictions, together with the Mental Health and Addictions Allied Staff, accept the Maria MacMillan Endowment Grant from Tammy Morison, President & CEO, NBRHC Foundation.
The Mental Health Clinic – A $600 grant will support the Volunteer Childcare Project. It will help provide a more welcoming environment for children to play while their parent is attending their counselling session, removing the barrier of childcare from accessing services.
Acute Inpatient Psychiatry Unit – A $500 grant will be used for the dayroom project, helping to enhance the environment and provide engaging activities for patients.
Mental Health and the Law – The Horticulture program received a $500 grant that will help involve patients in growing fruits and vegetables as part of their therapeutic activity.
“Our family was devastated when we lost our bright beautiful Maria,” Ruby MacMillan says. “We miss her and mourn her to this day. Having this endowment in her name helps us by knowing that her life is having a meaningful impact by helping others through their illness,” MacMillan says.
Tammy Morison, NBRHC Foundation President and CEO, explains an Endowment Fund is created by an individual or family through a significant donation. “Every year we are pleased to help the MacMillan’s honour the memory of Maria through this grant, which in turn, helps our patients in a variety of unique ways,” Morison says. “The annual grant is generated from interest earned and the donor specifies where it will provide support—it can be a specific program or area of care within the Health Centre—and the principal is preserved in perpetuity.”
For more information on supporting Maria’s endowment fund, or to establishing your own family’s fund, contact the Foundation at 705.495.8125.
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Contact:
Lindsay Smylie Smith, Communications Specialist, NBRHC
Lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca
The morning started out for Robert (Bob) Collins like any other. Bob was getting ready to get coffee when his arm felt strange. “I felt kind of funny – so I leaned against the table,” he remembers. “It seemed to pass and I felt ok.” Bob continued to his bedroom and sat on the bed to get dressed. The next thing he knew he was falling right onto the hardwood floor.
Bob says his first thought was to try and get up. “I couldn’t understand what had happened,” he says. But Bob’s wife Sharon did—and she knew exactly what to do. “I yelled to him to stay where he was and I got the phone to call 911,” Sharon says.
Bob Collins and his wife Sharon (centre) are joined by Emergency Department RN Jean Durnford and Shelley Hawton, District Stroke Coordinator.
Shelley Hawton, District Stroke Coordinator at the North Bay Regional Health Centre says Sharon did the right thing by calling 911. “We say ‘time is brain’ because it is estimated that for each minute that passes during a stroke, 1.9 million brain cells die,” Hawton says. “That is why it is so important for people to recognize the signs of stroke, and to call 911.”
The Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada has adopted the use of the acronym FAST to help people learn and recognize the signs of stroke.
F – Face: is it drooping?
A – Arms: can you raise both?
S – Speech: is it slurred or jumbled?
T – Time: to call 911 right away.
Jim Stewart, Manager, District of Nipissing Paramedic Services says in addition to providing immediate emergency medical care during safe rapid transportation, paramedics are critical to stroke care and essential to help save precious minutes when dealing with a potential stroke.
“There is an expertise our paramedics bring to the critical first moments after a stroke, which is why calling 911 when you suspect a stroke is so important,” Stewart says. “Paramedics across the region are trained to determine if a patient should be brought directly to a stroke centre rather than their local hospital. Also they are notified if the CT scanner is down and can re-route patients to another hospital, potentially saving even more time.”
The paramedics who arrived at Robert and Sharon Collins’ house that morning initiated a Code Stroke.
Hawton says staff have been working hard to align stroke care at the Health Centre with the Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations. “Most notably is the launch of our Code Stroke process in the Emergency Department in February 2016,” Hawton says.
Code Stroke means hospital personnel and stroke team members are ready to start diagnosis and treatment of a potential stroke as soon as the patient arrives at the Emergency Department. A Code Stroke patient is prioritized for things like lab tests and the CT scanner.
“This new process involves multiple hospital departments who collaborate to ensure patients experience a seamless journey with minimal time wasted,” Hawton explains.
TPA is a clot busting medication that can be given to some patients who are experiencing a stroke. The North Bay Regional Health Centre is one of five hospitals in northeastern Ontario equipped to provide the ‘clot-busting drug’ to stroke patients meeting the criteria for the treatment.
Hawton explains door-to-needle time is a term given to the time from arrival to the Emergency Department to the time TPA is given. “Our aim is to have a door-to-needle time under 60 minutes,” Hawton says. Bob’s door to needle time was 36 minutes.
By the time Sharon arrived at the hospital, the tests were completed and the Emergency Department physician, Dr. Derrick Yates, had contacted a stroke neurologist by video conference who confirmed Bob was a candidate for TPA.
Bob remembers the feeling of paralysis take over his right side. “I couldn’t move at all,” he says, “and it was starting to affect my vision too.”
Time was of the essence—they had to decide quickly if they wanted the TPA. “I looked over at Bob and said ‘do you want this’ and he nodded. So we went for it,” Sharon says.
Jean Durnford, RN was Bob’s nurse while he was in the Emergency Department. Bob says Durnford was an important presence to him. “She was the first one I saw as I was recovering,” Bob says. “She was so kind and was able to put me at ease.”
Within half an hour Bob’s paralysis lifted: he could see again, he could move his arm, move his leg, everything. He said it was amazing.
Durnford remembers watching the TPA take effect. “He had total paralysis on one side, and to see a complete resolution was so rewarding,” she remembers. “It’s nice for us to see cases like Bob’s, it reminds us why we are here.”
Bob says Durford’s excitement was a motivator for him. “Watching her get excited about my progress made me feel really good—she inspired me to keep going.”
Bob was admitted to the Critical Care Unit (CCU), and is proud to say he was able to walk himself out three days later. “They tell me that doesn’t happen very often,” he says. Now back at home, he works hard at his recovery, participating in the hospital’s outpatient programs.
Bob and Sharon are so thankful to everyone who helped them that day, and actually returned to the hospital to share their gratitude in person. “From the paramedics, Emergency, CCU and physiotherapy staff, my wife and I are so grateful to everyone who helped us with my recovery,” Bob says.
During the month of July, the North Bay Regional Health Centre (NBHRC) Board of Directors together with its Senior Leadership, are looking to the community for help in shaping the Health Centre’s next strategic plan.
President and CEO Paul Heinrich says they are asking patients, families and community members to participate in a short online survey. “Early and on-going community involvement will ensure we create a strategic plan that is responsive to, and reflective of, our community’s needs,” says Heinrich.
Heinrich explains a strategic plan defines an organization’s directions and priorities, with a focus on the future. “Strategic planning is a necessary part of any organization’s management tasks and it demonstrates responsible and accountable leadership. It is an expectation of the NBRHC Board of Directors, the Local Health Integration Network and Ministry of Health and Long-Term Care that the organization maintains a current strategic plan.”
The strategic planning exercise not only articulates where the organization is going and the actions needed to make progress, but also how it will know if it is successful. A strategic plan will continue to help NBRHC better serve the needs of our community and district.
To participate in the survey, visit our website at www.nbrhc.on.ca and the survey is available in both English and French. If you participate before July 22, you will be entered to win a pair of weekend passes to Summer in the Park.
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Contact:
Lindsay Smylie Smith
Communications Specialist, NBRHC
lindsay.smyliesmith@nbrhc.on.ca
705-495-7592
