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Making a Difference: Making A Difference – Freed’s Bakery
Freed’s Bakery has been providing tasty treats to people all across the valley for many years, baking cakes, cookies and other confections to satisfy any sweet tooth. But Freed’s has also been deeply involved in the community, spending as much time engaging in important charity work as they do in crafting their delectable desserts.
This past September, Freed’s hosted a special promotion called A Drive for Danny, a charity effort to benefit longtime employee Danny O’Briant, who is recovering from an auto-immune disorder that has limited the use of his hands, feet, arms and legs. O’Briant has worked for Freed’s since 1977, starting out cleaning the shop and working his way up to head baker in just a few short years. One hundred percent of the proceeds from the bakery’s cupcake sales went towards helping O’Briant and his family pay for physical, occupational and speech therapies at local medical facilities. All told, Freed’s sold more than 3,000 cupcakes at $1 per item and also received nearly $500 in additional donations from customers moved by O’Briant’s courageous story.
“We are touched by the outpour of communal support for Danny,” said Max Jacobson-Fried, owner and operator of Freed’s Bakery. “We will certainly be creating other opportunities at the bakery for the community to donate to Danny’s rehabilitation.”
For more information on Freed’s Bakery, visit www.freedsbakery.com.
