bake sale
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The life-limiting condition will eventually leave him reliant on a wheelchair and in need of specialist home adaptations, so the family are raising money pound by pound, bake sale by bake sale.
From BBC • Dec. 12, 2025
She cooks strange things for him — a school bake sale becomes a source of humiliation for him.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 24, 2025
“It was easy to imagine her as your next-door neighbor or maybe a fellow parent at a bake sale at your kid’s school,” Roxborough says.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 16, 2023
The power of a humble grassroots bake sale is amazing.
From Salon • Jul. 12, 2023
While the Missionary Circle truly held a bake sale to raise money for the court case, the correct date was June 9, 1951.
From "The Parker Inheritance" by Varian Johnson
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