While making face masks for her family and thinking about all there was to do before the upcoming school year, Surf City resident Caroline Palmer was struck with inspiration. Although her summer wouldn’t look quite the way she had imagined it, she could still use the time to unite her interests in public health and orthodontics, protect the LBI community and serve people in need.

Thus was born her charitable mask-making business, No Masking a Smile, and in just her first week of work, Palmer made more than 30 masks and donated over $500 from profits to Give Back a Smile, the organization from…