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Watch VideoCanon City candy store sends "Treats for our Troops"
Story By: Mark Hanrahan
Source: KOAA
In the basement of Fandies Candy Store in downtown
The program is called, 'treats for our troops.' It was started last year by Moore, who through private donations, raised enough money to send eight care packages filled with candy overseas. The response she received, though, was inspiration to do something bigger.
'Thank you' cards and pictures of soldiers holding candy, line a bulletin board in the front of her store. This year
Over the course of two months, twenty-one pageant candidates scoured the community looking for donations; raising 25-hundred dollars.
It was enough money to more than triple the amount of candy they'll send overseas, compared to last year; enough for twenty-five, ten pound boxes.
Pageant candidate and high school student Brooke Madone says, "It makes me feel really good, it makes me feel like we're changing the world." Candidate Cassidy Gunter says, "I think a lot of people tend to forget and to say 'thank you,' I think they'll really appreciate it.
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