The Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation should be headed for the record books after a sweet showing on Sunday.
The foundation was attempting to assemble the longest line of cookies ever in the Southampton Coliseum and Executive Director Tracy Murray said they smashed the record.
“I believe the current record was 3,328 cookies. It was in China that they did it in 2019,” she says. “Then yesterday, our attempt, we had 4,048 cookies, well above the current record. So we’re just getting all of our formal paperwork together and video and photographic evidence to submit to Guinness and within about a week, we should get the stamp of approval and our official announcement that we’ve broken the record.”
Supplies were donated by Southampton Foodland and Voortman Cookies and all the leftovers were given to food banks in Port Elgin and Saugeen First Nation.
Murray said the efforts of their volunteers was almost more impressive than the actual record-setting cookie line.
(Photo courtesy of Saugeen Memorial Hospital Foundation)
“We had this amazing crew of about 15 people from (LearnFit Strength and Conditioning),” she said. “They’re like a big family, they came out and I seriously thought it was going to take us like two hours or maybe a bit more, because the record set in 2019, it says it took them eight hours. But they blasted out the assembly in 40 minutes. It was like a record itself, it was something to watch!”
The purpose of the event was to raise money for an infant warmer for the ER as well as a CPR compression machine, but Murray says they haven’t had an opportunity to calculate the total donations raised.
