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Help Pack a Backpack for a Needy Student

PLEASE HELP PACK A BACKPACK FOR A NEEDY STUDENT
…while eating ice-cream with Snow White, Tweety Bird, Sylvester the Cat, Shrek, Cat In The Hat, Elmo, the Easter Bunny, and Robin Hood and Maid Marian!

When: Saturday, April 4 anytime between 3-7 p.m.

Where: Petrucci's Ice Cream - Water Ice, 472 Nutt Road, Phoenixville

This fundraising event is sponsored by Petrucci's Ice Cream - Water Ice, the Kiwanis Club of Phoenixville, and Phoenixville Community Education Foundation (PCEF). The ‘characters’ will come alive through the volunteer efforts of 10 students from Phoenixville Area High School.

Please encourage your students and families to support our efforts.

20% of all proceeds will be shared between the Kiwanis Club and PCEF. Both organizations share a Mission of supporting the children of Phoenixville—and more specifically, the Pack a Backpack Program that has distributed just shy of 1000 fully stocked backpacks since inception!

Please help spread the word and stop by for an ice cream treat (or a hot pretzel!!)
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