La Ronge Regional Fire Department receives hand sanitizer donation from distillery

Members of the La Ronge Regional Fire Department won’t have to worry about access to hand sanitizer.

That’s because Smooth 42 Craft Distillery based in Brownlee donated six 1,000 milliliter bottles of the product. Acting-Fire Chief Keaton Cloud reached out to the company for hand sanitizer after seeing a post advertising it on the Saskatchewan Association of Fire Chiefs Facebook page for health care workers and first responders.

“Our current supply of hand sanitizer was running really low, so we’re very grateful we got that because we’re almost running out and our current suppliers, given the world situation right now, didn’t have any in stock for us,” he said. “I think it is very positive to see small local businesses like these distilleries down south are coming together. They’re not even making a profit and they are putting money into helping other essential services throughout the province.”

Cloud is encouraging residents to donate cash to the distillery through a GoFundMe account to assist in producing the hand sanitizer. So far, the fundraiser has reached $17,300 with a goal of raising $100,000. The distillery is producing 1,000 litres of hand sanitizer per day.