Cookies For Charity
A new food craze is taking the school by storm, but it is not being sold by the cafeteria staff.
Senior Simon Stoltz makes homemade cookies and sells them in the cafeteria multiple times a week. “My dad has been making these cookies for as long as I can remember,” Stoltz said. “ My dad makes them all, but I help out quite a bit. We usually make 120 week or 60 a day. We now have a 20 quart mixer that can make 100 cookies per batch.”
Stoltz sells the sweet and savory cookies for only one dollar. The low prices are a major factor in the number of cookies he sells. “I think a major selling point is my great deal of three cookies for two dollars,” Stoltz said. “”My cookies are also much larger than the ones at school.”
Seniors Chandler Vail and Nick Zakrzewski are both close friends of Stoltz and are also frequent cookie buyers. Vail said, “I think it is a better deal overall. You know where it comes from and where it is going. I eat these cookies and I am left wanting more.”
Zakrzewski said, “The cookies are twice as big but not double the price. Sometimes my entire lunch is Simon’s cookies. You don’t even need milk.”
Many would tell Stoltz to pocket the money, but he does quite the opposite. “I donate all the money to the MS (Multiple sclerosis) Foundation,” Stoltz said. “My dad and I participate in a 150 mile charity bike race for MS, but to be in it you have to raise $300 for MS research. I started selling cookies to raise the money.”
Although this will be Stoltz’s third year participating in the race, it became a little more personal last summer when Vail’s mother was diagnosed with MS. “Simon donates to her team,” Vail said. “It means a lot because I know there is no real treatment for it right now. Medicine reduces the symptoms but it is very expensive. I know how MS affects someone so every bit helps.”
Since January, Stoltz has raised nearly $300 and last year alone he raised $1200. And although graduation is coming up, Stoltz has no plans of stopping cookie production. “M&M cookies are coming soon,” Stoltz said. “I might also have a couple of free batches for the seniors to share the love as we get closer to graduation.”
[Photo Editing by Sullivan Fitz]
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