By Sarah Rae

N.B. clothing store tries to better community through random acts of kindness

Sep 1, 2016 | 9:55 AM

A local store says random acts of kindness can improve the community.

Tammy Ramsay, manager of FF2 Get Dressed in North Battleford, said each month two employees get a budget to perform a random act for a deserving person or charity in town.

“It gets them to take a little bit more ownership for the store as well as the community that they live in,” she said. “They can make a difference and it starts just with a small random act of kindness.”

Ramsay said she and her staff brainstormed the idea earlier this summer after a Discovery Coop brand day. The list of ideas her employees have come up with is nearly endless, she said.

They gave coffee cards to the RCMP in July and the most recent act was delivering food to the Humane Society on Tuesday.

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Because FF2 Get Dressed is posting the random acts of kindness on social media, Ramsay said she hopes other people will be inspired.

“We’re hoping that it changes people in general, but I know even from my staff they’re looking for ways they can do things. Whether it’s small or big, just to put a smile on somebody’s face because that’s what it’s all about,” she said.

Ramsay said the initiative has already changed the way her employees are seeing the world. One such employee came into work Wednesday in a better than usual mood after performing a random act in the Tim Hortons drive-thru. Ramsay said the young woman was happy to have made someone smile.

She hoped the store could keep the initiative up for a long time.  

Sarah Rae is battlefordsNOW’s court and crime reporter. She can be reached at Sarah.Rae@jpbg.ca or tweet her @sarahjeanrae.