Ingersoll Flips the Script for Random Acts of Kindness Week 2026

Kyrah Smith, Echo Correspondent

On Feb. 15, the Town of Ingersoll celebrated Random Acts of Kindness Week (RAK Week), featuring an exclusive social media campaign.

The campaign ran from Feb. 15 to 21 and was posted across both the town’s Instagram and Facebook accounts. The goal of RAK Week is to spread positivity and encourage that kindness, no matter how small the act, does make a difference in our lives.

“We usually hear about the municipal staff serving the public, but next week in Ingersoll, the roles are reversing.” Explains Ingersoll’s Communications Officer, Emily Riepert. For this year’s campaign, the town chose to highlight kind moments from members of the community who helped Ingersoll’s staff members to smile.

“It’s been a moving reminder of the bond between our residents and the people who keep the town running.” Riepert adds.

The moments shared via social media remain anonymous and range from in-person gestures and interactions to simply a thoughtful Google review or email.

One post shared on behalf of Ingersoll’s Community Services Department said, “A long-time patron of VPCC (Victoria Park Community Centre) recently surprised our fitness team and class participants with a delicious chocolate-banana-cranberry loaf. We are constantly moved by the generosity of this patron. It’s members like you who bring the community to the community centre.”

Another post, shared on behalf of an Ingersoll Clerk, Building, Engineering and Planning staff member, read, “Thank you and the people of our town and county…you’re the reason why I want to stay living in Ingersoll. I’ve never had this much of a positive experience with something that is normally stressful.”

The campaign finished off with a message from Town Hall.

“Thank you for caring for each other, Ingersoll.” This final post shares a moment of staff members witnessing a resident going “above and beyond” by simply helping another fellow resident, no questions asked. They expressed these quiet acts of kindness happen every day and do not go unnoticed.

“Seeing you be kind to each other is what truly makes this community. Thank you for making Ingersoll a place where no one has to go at it alone.”

If you’d like to read the remaining posts of RAK Week yourself, you can visit Ingersoll’s social media pages @townofingersoll.

Stay kind, Ingersoll.