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Sweet sales raise tsunami aid
By JACK BRIERLEY
Published February 6, 2005
ST. PETERSBURG - A third-grade class and an ambitious baker launched projects to raise money for tsunami survivors, and their efforts resulted in $3,500 in disaster aid.
Twenty-eight youngsters at Lutheran Church of the Cross Day School in Shore Acres brainstormed ways to help and decided to sell Blow Pops. The kids, whose teachers are Bambi Breen and Gina Fontana, persuaded parents to donate the candy, planned a marketing campaign and set up sales. Then they sold the candy for 10 days, raising $1,200.
The South Pinellas County chapter of Thrivent Financial for Lutherans, an aid organization, matched the money.
Meanwhile, Ruby Clarke, 60, recently raised $550 for charity by baking banana, pound and carrot cakes, selling them for $5 each. Her employer, Maria Manor Nursing Home, matched the money Mrs. Clarke raised.
Mrs. Clarke, who has worked for Maria Manor as a nursing assistant for 10 years, spent more than a week baking the cakes. She sold most of them at Maria Manor and some at Triumphant Church, where she attends services.
Maria Manor is owned and operated by the Sisters of Bon Secour, an order of nuns who help people in need. Bon Secour has raised $250,000 nationwide for the tsunami aid charity. The money will reach those in need through Catholic Relief Services.
[Last modified February 6, 2005, 00:21:17]
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