DVUSD
– Teachers in the Deer Valley Unified School District
can expect to see some pink in October to help raise awareness
for breast cancer research.
Food
Service Coordinator Shannon Quinn said she attended a
food show in the Phoenix metropolitan area where cookie
maker Otis Spunkmeyer was showing some of the company’s
new products. One of those products is a pink cookie made
in limited quantities. Proceeds from the sale of the cookies
are to go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation for
research to find a cure.
“We
all need to be aware,” said Quinn. “This seemed like a
good way.”
The
district purchased 40 cases containing 250 cookies each,
for a total of 10,000 cookies.
Quinn
said the pink cookies, which actually are chocolate mised
with pink candy will be distributed every Friday during
October to teachers’ lounges and with adult meals around
the
district.
“We’re
not putting them in the kids’ meals,” she said.
