Community Rallies Around Lemonade Day
May 12, 2010
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jeff Crandall 860-282-4201
East Hartford: Front row tickets to a Boston Red Sox game? College scholarship money? Free passes to Six Flags New England? Students in East Hartford that sign up to learn about entrepreneurship by running a lemonade stand on Lemonade Day on June 6th in East Hartford are eligible to win these prizes and more. The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) and East Hartford ChildPlan are working together to bring Lemonade Day to East Hartford, Connecticut, and the community is showing their support.
Goodwin College as the title sponsor, is hosting the awards ceremony and serving as judges. Maffe Foundation is sponsoring the scholarship prizes and has offered to be the title sponsor at next year's Lemonade Day. Additionally, The Maffe Foundation Golf is hosting their annual golf tournament to benefit Lemonade Day 2011 on Friday, July 9th at Wintonbury Golf Course in Bloomfield, CT. For more information or to register for this event, please visit www.maffefoundation.com.
Adchem Manufacturing Technologies has offered four front row seats at a Boston Red Sox game at Fenway Park for the winners of the Best Business. Additional prizes are donated by Six Flags New England, Dairy Queen, Hartford Children's Theater, and AMF Bowling at Silver Lanes.
In addition to the awards, scholarships and prizes, participants get to keep the profits they earn.
East Hartford ChildPlan is offering loans to participants to get their businesses started, and they have also arranged to provide water bottles to every participant. Ace Hardware is donating paint and paint brushes to any team in need. UCONN football athletes are participating by serving as mentors for several of the teams. And others are stepping up to serve as judges for the program's contests. East Hartford's own Mayor will serve, and The Farmer's Cow's Farmer's Daughter's Lemonade will be on hand to provide an expert opinion on the quality of the products sold.
Lemonade Day was started four years ago in Houston, Texas, by Prepared4Life. This event is a fun and engaging educational program that promotes the ideas of entrepreneurship, business ownership, and community giving. This program is open to children living or going to school in East Hartford.
To register for Lemonade Day, please go to www.LemonadeDay.org and click on East Hartford, or call Jeff Crandall at 860-282-4201 for more information.
ABOUT CCAT
The Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology, Inc. (CCAT) helps private and public entities to apply innovative tools and practices to increase efficiencies, improve workforce development and boost competitiveness. CCAT functions as a unique economic development organization that combines expertise in cutting-edge technology with specialized centers of excellence in manufacturing, education, training, energy, and entrepreneurialism. Throughout these efforts, we promote partnership between industry, academia, and government to create a new collaborative framework for addressing 21st-century economic challenges. Go to www.ccat.us for more information.
ABOUT EAST HARTFORD CHILDPLAN
East Hartford ChildPlan, Inc. is a nonprofit organization that serves as a resource to the East Hartford community in providing a local voice in program planning and as a fiduciary for programs that impact the health, educational status and social conditions of East Hartford children and families. The mission of ChildPlan, as affirmed, is to proactively and effectively collaborate with the East Hartford community to improve the quality of the lives of our children and families.
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