Downey High Interact Takeover

First we learned that the Interact Club has enjoyed many events in their 2012-13 year.  They participated in a street clean –up project with Keep Downey Beautiful, and also joined our club in the Pancake Breakfast we put on each October to raise money for the Downey family YMCA.

In addition, the Downey High School Interact has taken on a project called Stop Hunger Now, to work toward a world without hunger.

They have raised money and collected canned food, and now they were going to raise even more with a cupcake and cookie auction with our club.

Every offering was a heaped plate filled with an extremely generous helping of some bakery delight.  First one of their members walked up and down the tables displaying cupcakes with a big swirl of white icing.  We were assured these were of chewy brownie-like consistency.  This brought $50.

Then a platter of chocolate cookies brought in $100,  as did another plateful of peanut butter cookies with a large chocolate kiss on top of each.  A tray of cookies that we were assured were “made with heart,” brought $100 also.

Next, when the Interact showed us a plateful of sugar cookies, Mario Guerra pledged to pay $150 for it, and even give it back to the Interact club, if their members would promise to walk three miles with him on his Wednesday night Walk With the Mayor program at 6 pm on the Downey High School Track.  This Walk is a new tradition, meant to promote a healthy lifestyle, and it is place where the Mayor has lost his first 50 pounds.  Offer accepted.

Then for the finale came a giant chocolate cake, with a thickly glazed chocolate icing, topped with a red-petalled gerbera flower and a raspberry. This sold for $100, and we were reminded that the $610 the Interact Club had so quickly raised, would go the Stop Hunger Now project.