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Fierce!
In a million years – if someone told me you could cure cancer by eating ice cream, I would not have believed them but…sometimes fact IS stranger then fiction. When I was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer 19 months ago, my community, family, friends and my KIDS rallied around me and we all put our heads together to figure out a way to try to save all of us who are, and countless others who will be, impacted by this disease. The LAST DAY OF SCHOOL SCOOPS CHALLENGE was born out of this collective effort to come together as kids, moms, dads and community members to kick off the summer with fun while also giving back in a huge way and making the world not only a tastier, but also a much better, place by funding research for the hugely underfunded – metastatic breast cancer!

This June, the 2nd annual Fairfield, CT scoops challenge raised almost $24,000!!!! A huge thank you to my sis Paula and our incredible volunteers Steph, Nicole B, Stacey, Mary Francis, Sarah, Tricia, Vicki, Mary, Nicole C, Danielle, Andrea, Maura, Kyla and Judy O’Donoghue!! A big thank you to Rudy’s Executive Transportation and of course our main sponsor – Saugatuck Sweets of Fairfield, CT!

We are so honored to have Ford Warriors In Pink as our marketing sponsor of this event, which is going NATIONAL! Check out the awesome banner Vicki, Paula, and The Ford team put together:
Here are some highlights of this fun event courtesy of Photography by Lisa Garcia:
Now, while we may have had the benefit of a professional photographer at The Fairfield event to capture all that fun and good will… the Cheshire, CT event, sponsored by the incredibly generous and delicious Sweet Claude’s, blew us all away with their spirit and unreal fundraising! These kids and parents brought in almost $40,000!! Can you believe it? The winning team – Magic Mike and his buds raised $4840 by the 9am cutoff!  However The Lactose Intolerants also nailed it with $5165 and The First Grade Ice Cream Lover and Cancer Crushers donated $3847! There was a $100 entrance fee for these teams and they went WAY ABOVE and WAY BEYOND anything we could have ever imagined!! Thank you thank you thank you so much to all! Especially – a huge thank you to my sis Viv who put this together for the first time in Cheshire with help from Zach, Marc, DJ, and Ellen Ciampi, Kristin Kurtz, Nicole & Jean Staples, Mary Kilpatrick, Janelle Margolies, Flavia and Sabrina Cass, Susan Jaramillo, Charlie and Maricelle Riemann, Brenda Downey, Susan, Elizabeth and Nathan Beaudoin, Catherine Takizawa, and our angel donor…Betsy!!
Since 100% of our donations and event proceeds are matched and go straight to research – this means that in just 2 days of super fun ice cream eating – these kids and their amazing parents put over $120,000 into life-saving research for metastatic breast cancer at Dana-Farber and Memorial Sloan Kettering!

Thank you so much to all our participants, sponsors and fans! Please consider hosting a scoops challenge in your town and we will honor someone in your community with breast cancer by starting a fund in their name at their local cancer center to benefit patients with metastatic breast cancer in financial need. Contact us at [email protected] to get a turn key kit – we will send you everything you need to do this!!!

​I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!
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Disclaimer: Please note, the opinions and advice provided here are not meant to replace the guidance of your personal health care team, with whom you should always consult before making significant diet, exercise, or lifestyle changes, or for any individual medical or mental health concerns.