Students from the Upland Country Day School have gotten together with a Chadds Ford business to help the dogs that help people.
Fourth-graders at the East Marlborough based school teamed up with Giggy Bites in Olde Ridge Village to sell dog biscuits to benefit Canine Partners for Life. Students started by packaging and selling biscuits, but on March 7 they began baking the biscuits themselves.
“We’re here learning how to make the biscuits, what goes into behind the scenes of running a small business. Just having fun and getting our hands into it,” said teacher Jen Sweitzer.
The students mixed and cut dough and decorated some of the biscuits.
Sweitzer said the students chose CPL as their service project on Martin Luther King Day and have raised $300 so far. She called working with Giggy Bites to make dog biscuits a natural way to help.
“What a great way to raise money for a dog facility by making biscuits. We got in touch with Stephanie [Rossini, owner of Giggy Bites] and she has been a driving force behind us raising money and learning the process of a service oriented project,” Sweitzer said.
Students in other grades are doing different projects, she said.
Student Will Koselka said he liked learning how the biscuits were made and helping Canine Partners for Life.
Rossini opened her dog treat shop in Olde Ridge, where they make and sell the biscuits, four years ago. She has had an ongoing relationship with CPL since the shop opened.
Canine Partners for Life is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to training service dogs, home companion dogs, and residential companion dogs to assist individuals who have a wide range of physical and cognitive disabilities. It is based in Cochranville.
About Rich Schwartzman
Rich Schwartzman has been reporting on events in the greater Chadds Ford area since September 2001 when he became the founding editor of The Chadds Ford Post. In April 2009 he became managing editor of ChaddsFordLive. He is also an award-winning photographer.
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