Golden Ticket fundraiser underway to benefit schools and local businesses
FOREST HILLS, Queens (PIX11) — Do you want to win a Golden Ticket to tour a chocolate factory?
It's not the plot of a movie, but an actual fundraiser currently underway in Forest Hills, Queens.
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Aigner Chocolates on Metropolitan Avenue in Forest Hills, Queens is selling 'community bars' to benefit schools and local businesses.
Owner Rachel Kellner tells PIX11 News, 'Anyone can come to the store and purchase a community bar for 6 dollars. 40 to 50 percent of those sales are going to Adopt A Classroom and Teach for America.'
Five of the bars will contain the Golden Ticket, which will allow you to be a Chocolatier for a day at Aigner's. Of course, you'll get to sample the treats when you're done making them. Kellner adds, 'Maybe they'll learn the Snozzberry recipe!'
Kellner said, 'We're ready to continue to give back to the community, to continue to help build relationships between schools and businesses.'
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The contest will last for a month at Aigner Chocolates. At least five public schools in Queens have already signed up to use the candy bars to fundraise for extra money for the classrooms.
Co-president of the Parents' Association at P.S. 109Q, Caroline You tells PIX11 News, 'A large portion of the sales is going to go back to the schools so we can definitely use that money to help support the curriculum and other things for the students.'
P.A. Co-president Melissa San Pedro said the money allows a number of extras, like 'local theater groups come in and teach the kids to sing, local science-based engineering companies, and they teach the kids robotics, so it just supports what they learned in school.'
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