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Hawkins Gignac Foundation Receives Large Donation from 100 Women Who Care Oxford Chapter

Monday, 12 July 2021 05:51

The Hawkins Gignac Foundation will use a $5,000 donation to purchase new carbon monoxide alarms and distribute them to those in need in the community.

OXFORD COUNTY - The 100 Women Who Care Oxford Chapter are donating over $5,000 to Hawkins Gignac Foundation.

Hawkins Gignac is a non profit charity with a mandate to prevent carbon monoxide tragedies. Founder John Gignac explains what they will do with this funding.

"It means that we can buy CO alarms and give it to the people in the community, especially here, because this is where Laurie, her husband and their children lived."

Gignac says they will also spend some of the money on the educational component of the Hawkins Gignac Foundation.

"It will help us produce more Ricky the Seal Safety Ranger colouring books and now we are going to animate Ricky into a short film and it will cost money, but we will be able to run that in the schools to education the children, but yeah, the number one thing, buy CO alarms and get them into homes."

Gignac's niece, Laurie Hawkins and her family died from Carbon Monoxide poisoning in Woodstock in 2008.

Gignac has made it his mission to equip every home with a CO detector ever since. He teamed up with Local MPP Ernie Hardeman who was able to get a private members bill passed to make CO alarms mandatory in every home in Ontario. This was no small feat as Private Members bills almost never go through when you are in the opposition.

You can read more about the Hawkins Gignac foundation online here.

Listen to the full interview with John Gignac below:

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