A local bagel shop is encouraging Grande Prairie residents who might be short on sugar to purchase cookies for a cause this holiday season.
Papa’s Bagels N’ Stuff has partnered with the United Way to support local charities heading into the holidays. Between December 1st and 23rd, Papa’s has promised to donate $0.25 for each cookie sold, and $2 for each box of six.
Papa’s owner Kelton Jempson says the partnership made sense because cookies are such a hot seller this time of year.
“United Way reached out to us and said they have a really great promotion going on here where they would be able to partner up with them on social media and we could donate to a good cause,” he says. “We thought why don’t we jump on this, we know cookies are a pretty good seller during the holidays so we thought we could probably help out pretty well with that.”
Jempson adds that as cookies continue selling, he plans on introducing new flavours in the weeks leading up to Christmas to keep things fresh for returning customers.
“The cookies seem to be moving, we’re going to launch a couple new flavours next week as well to see if we can get some people right before Christmas.”
Jempson says this year’s goal is to raise $250 for the United Way. As of December 12th, $110 has been raised.