Cancer Society Fundraiser - A Sweet Success At LOLPS

Oct 17, 2013

Grades five and six students at Land O' Lakes Public School in Mountain Grove were thrilled to be able present a cheque for $200 to a representative from the Kingston branch of the Canadian Cancer Society on October 10. The students in Mr. Harding's class held a two-day bake sale on October 2 and 3 and said they got a “great turn out with the line-up for buyers winding through the school all the way to the pod”. Liz Bonser, volunteer engagement coordinator with the KFL&A branch of the Canadian Cancer Society, was presented with the cheque in the school library. She said she was pleased with the students' efforts and she spoke to them following the presentation. “It's not so much the amount of money but just the fact that the students care so much and made such an amazing effort to contribute.” The students sold cream puffs, cupcakes, cheesecake, cookies, pastries and other homemade goodies and were thrilled to be able to present their efforts in person to Bonser.

The fundraiser was the brainchild of Hazuki and Keeley, with Charlotte given credit for starting the tradition of a bake sale fundraiser. Some of the students said that their inspiration to help out the CCS came from learning about famed Canadian cancer research fundraiser Terry Fox.