Holiday Smile Cookie week raising money for Moosomin Visual Arts Centre
November 3, 2025, 10:23 am
Nicole Taylor, Local Journalism Initiative Reporter
Holiday Smile Cookie Week is from November 17-23, and this year Moosomin Tim Hortons is raising money for the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre.
Tim Hortons has started taking pre-orders for the cookies, with 100 per cent of the proceeds going toward the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre.
“We always like to switch up our organization every year and we see the benefit of having the Visual Arts Centre in our community,” says Moosomin Tim Hortons owner Greg Crisanti. “They’ve been doing some great things and (manager) Cherrie (Caliwag) was really interested in getting on board. They have a great volunteer base, the community is really behind it, so we couldn’t think of a better fit to put it all together.”
Last year Moosomin raised $11,443 in Holiday Smile Cookie sales, making the Moosomin location the second top-selling location in Saskatchewan. During past Smile Cookie campaigns, Moosomin has set the record as the top selling location in the province on a number of occasions.
“We definitely put Moosomin on the map for sure,” says Crisanti. “I was just out in Ottawa with a bunch of MPs and visited a QP office, and they are quite aware of our results in Saskatchewan. We like to brag a little bit for sure, but we aren’t giving away our secrets, people are following in our footsteps which is a good thing.”
“It’s the people who live here,” says Moosomin Tim Hortons Manager Cherrie Caliwag.
Smile Cookies sell for $2 a cookie and the arts centre is aiming to sell more than $10,000 worth of cookies this year.
“We are live now so anyone can order cookies right now,” says Crisanti.
The money from the cookie sales will go towards operating costs at the arts centre.
“Right now we are being sponsored by the town for three years, but we have to find a way to make some more money. Just the supplies, the different classes we provide, the rent. We are continuing to do lots of classes and lots of that is volunteer as well. We’d like to do more classes and have more exposure,” says Lynn Smart with the Moosomin Visual Arts Centre.
“We are a sports town. We are very lucky to be a sports town. But the visual arts is a good thing to be exposed to as well.
“It’s surprising the people who come out. We had ceramics last night and had 20 people. The class before, we had 24, so that’s a whole other group of people coming in.”
“At our meeting the other night there were 39 new members and 64 returning and, then there are always drop-ins,” Lynne Hafner adds.
“We get a good response from the kids. Cooking classes are huge, they seem to go over really well.”
Smile Cookie can be pre-ordered by scanning the QR code below:
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