‘C’ is for cookie (and cash)

Through cookie sales, connections with the Waukesha Kiwanis club, and business donations, the Circle K Club of the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha raised a record amount for its annual “adopt-a-family” drive.

After setting a goal of US$500, the group gathered $550 in cash and another $240 in gift certificates from Kohl’s Department Stores. Circle K’ers raised most of the money by appealing to college students’ greatest vulnerability: their stomachs. The group plopped a table down near the student cafeteria and watched students drop handfuls of change for a cookie and a good cause.

“It’s because we have cookies,” club member Jessica Franklin said of the group’s success. “Students like the cookies. We’re now known as the cookie group.”