Pasadena Business Owners Donate Masks During Coronavirus Pandemic

PASADENA, MD — Hospitals across the country are running low on face masks and other personal protective gear needed to keep healthcare workers safe from the new coronavirus. Rick Levin, co-owner of Pasadena Boatworks, recently surprised the Maryland Health Department with a donation of more than 14,000 masks. Levin had befriended a girl named Mackensie Stuck who had cancer in the early 2000s. She confessed to Levin that one of the things she hated most about being sick was having to wear a mask in front of her friends.

"I decided, 'How do you make that a little bit more fun and cool?' I came up with a creative idea to put decorative images that stick and peel on top of (the mask), and it was a big hit," Levin told WBAL.

Levin dedicated years giving away thousands of Kenzie Covers to sick children. Eventually he grew busy with other projects and the stockpiled masks were put in storage. But just recently, Levin pulled those masks out of storage so that he and his business partner, Nick Doetsch, could donate more than 14,000 masks to the Maryland Health Department.

See more at WBAL.

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