St. Regis students bake Valentine’s cookies for annual fundraiser
Zaylee Simkins, right, places a heart-shaped cookie onto a baking sheet Saturday at the St. Regis Cafeteria. Fellow BPA members, Mae Grosenbaugh, and Jack Connolly roll out and cut dough. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
Senior, Brooke Filek, removes a hot tray of sugar cookies from the oven as the St. Regis Business Professionals chapter baked hundreds of cookies for their annual fundraiser last weekend. (Mineral Independent/Amy Quinlivan)
The cafeteria at St. Regis School on Feb. 3 was filled with the sweet aroma of warm sugar cookies — around 840 of them.
Students donned aprons and rubber gloves as the school's Business Professionals of America chapter spent Saturday morning kneading, rolling, cutting and baking over 70 dozen heart-shaped cookies. The tasty baked goodies, which will be frozen and frosted the following weekend are part of a longstanding fundraising tradition for the BPA group.
BPA advisor Tina Hill isn’t sure when the cookie sales began at St. Regis Schoo, but she recalled, “I’m pretty sure the roses started when I was a freshman.”
Along with Valentine’s cookies, the chapter also takes orders for roses distributed on Cupids’ Day. They ordered 1,000 stems. To help ensure peak freshness, those will delivered on Feb. 13 so that it will be a long thorny night for the BPA students and advisors arranging bouquets. They are also requesting donations of unwanted vases from the community to be brought to the school, this helps cut down on costs for the flower arrangements.
While students rolled out dough last weekend, they had to make sure the cookies weren’t too thin or too thick.
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