Handel's Koins for Kids fundraiser underway

BOARDMAN — Beware of students whose schools are participating in the fifth annual Handel’s Ice Cream Koins for Kids campaign to benefit Akron Children’s Hospital Mahoning Valley.

If previous years are any example, there will be some innovative — maybe even irritating — projects invented by their fellow students to raise money and awareness for Akron Children’s in Boardman.

For instance, said Jim Brown, chief operating officer for Handel’s Homemade Ice Cream and Yogurt, at today’s Koins for Kids kickoff luncheon at Akron Children’s, one school’s project was to play a song “that nobody liked” over and over again in the cafeteria.

Students had to pay to meet a financial goal to get the music turned off.

Students from many schools in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties participating in Koins for Kids, sponsored by Handel’s, are planning how to raise money at their schools Dec. 2 through Dec. 13.

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