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If you’ve been searching for that perfect, inexpensive gift for friends, the hunt is over.
Community Service students are selling Candy Cane Grams at lunch, which allow students to send a candy cane with an attached message to friends at school.
Candy Cane-Grams cost $1 . They will be on sale during all lunch shifts until Dec. 8.
Senior Community Service student Samantha Hubbard said the idea of the candy cane exchange is, “Kind of like [the movie] Mean Girls.”
She continued, “[The Community Service students] were all talking about it as a joke at first, but everyone started thinking it would be a good idea.”
The candy canes come with a paper message, delivered with the candy cane, where students can write a short message to the recipient.
Candy canes will be delivered during fourth hour on Dec. 10.
All the money collected from the sale will be donated to Toys for Tots, which is the program Lafayette High School’s Cheer for Charity also supports.
