UPDATED: Lederman Family Gets Full Community Support
A series of fundraisers this week brought thousands out to help the family of 12-year-old Eric Lederman, who died earlier this month.
UPDATE: Jon Witcpalek of Culver's reported on Friday that the restaurant raised $1,830 for the family in sales. The sales figures from Thursday landed in the top five one-day totals in Culver's history, he said. Co-founder Craig Culver then donated his four-percent franchise fee for the day (another $732). Combine that with the $1,200 given in straight donations during the day, and Witcpalek is writing a check to the Lederman family for $3,762. And the Beck family, who sold bracelets in memory of Lederman, collected $1,439 for the Lederman's, merely the first donation they plan to make. Some of the money they raised on Thursday, Brian Beck said, was used to buy another 500 bracelets, which he hopes to sell over the next couple of weeks, …
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softballmom
1:03 pm on Friday, March 9, 2012
LOVE these stories....THIS is what it means to be a community! Culver's is such a wonderful place always supporting the community & schools one way or another...awesome, just awesome. more ›