At the beginning of April, Pamela Savacool of Bowmanstown joked in a Facebook status about how she’d egg her husband for 30 likes, 20 comments, and 10 shares. When her husband, Ronald, found out, he decided to take the project in a different direction and use the challenge for good: He was going volunteer to get egged in the name of charity.

He thought of the idea to donate masks to local fire stations, businesses and health care facilities, not only due to his wife’s post, but because he saw others online donating and making charitable efforts toward helping the country during the pandemic.

“Everyone else is doing something, and you don’t see too much of that in this area,” Ronald Savacool said. “Our country is in a pandemic and there are people out there that need this stuff. We weren’t ready for this.”

After thinking more about it, he said, “I decided, why don’t we do it this way so I can get something for our health care workers, first responders, senior citizen homes. …”

His plan is to gather in a large park or business parking lot so people can drive up, donate the masks, and “do what they’ve got to do” with the eggs. Although he is currently contacting his local board members and businesses, he hasn’t stopped planning for the event to ensure the safety of all involved.

Savacool decided to switch the rules from one mask equals one egg to one mask equals one water balloon. A friend commented on Pamela’s Facebook post that eggs are expensive, and Savacool also considered that the eggs could cause damage to himself or someone around him.

He first thought he would just have the participants give his wife the eggs to throw, but water balloons still made more sense for economic, safety and sanitation reasons.

The actual event will take place within a few weeks once Ronald has found the proper location to safely hold the event. The participants will be able to show up in their cars (wearing masks themselves) and drop the masks they would like to donate in a bin for Ronald and his wife to later sanitize and hand deliver to local businesses that are in need. Pamela said there is also an option to personally donate the masks and take a picture to send to her to still participate in the event.

Videos and pictures showing where the donated masks go as well as any updates on the meetup time and location will be posted to Facebook under Pamela’s account, PJ Boger-Savi.

“I’m an essential worker so our masks are given to us by our employers,” Ronald Savacool said. “But places are still in need of them.”

The Savacools have also inspired their friend to donate 23 masks to Country Meadows in Allentown.

Currently, the rules stand as stated below:

Drop off one mask = one water balloon to throw.

Drop off 10 masks = one whipped cream pie to throw.