| Make Someone Smile Week Makes Thousands Smile |
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| Conestoga College students Anissa Nashkewa (left) and Anne Liesemer help to create arrangements for Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile Week at the Ontario Flower Growers in Mississauga, Ont. |
The week of July 27 marked Teleflora’s seventh annual
Make Someone Smile Week where thousands of Teleflora member florists in
North America delivered floral arrangements to hospital patients,
nursing home residents and children living in foster-care facilities.
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| Teleflora Canada staff deliver a Be Happy Mug bouquet to a delighted recipient at the Carefree Lodge in Toronto. |
Florists in Ontario gathered at the Ontario Flowers Growers in Mississauga, Ont., on Tuesday and Wednesday to prepare the mugs and spent Thursday and Friday delivering them to hospitals, charities and organizations around the Greater Toronto Area.
In Halifax, over 500 arrangements were made and the Make Someone Smile Week was covered by CTV news. The event was featured on CTV’s Good Morning Canada.
The event also took place in 17 other Canadian cities and 5,000 bouquets were delivered across the country.
To prepare for the week, Teleflora donated more than 47,000 keepsake “Be Happy Mugs” to member florists who worked with local wholesalers and growers to create cheerful floral arrangements in the mugs.
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| In Montreal, volunteers gather to make hundreds of bouquets for area retirement homes and hospitals. |
Last year, Teleflora’s Make Someone Smile program spanned 350 cities throughout Canada and the United States, and involved 2,500 florists who donated their time. Teleflora’s program delivered 30,228 floral arrangements to those in need of a smile.
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