Earning to give: Palic children learn about spirit of giving
The children of Joe and Jackie Palic of Marion are selling Christmas goodies to earn money to purchase gifts for the Angel Tree and to purchase a dairy goat, chicks, or fish for families in Africa or South America, through an organization called Samaritan's Purse.
Adam, 10, Kyle, 7, and Tyler, 3, were busy Friday decorating Santa cookies.
In addition to the decorated nutter butters, the boys will be selling two kinds of peppernuts, fruit cake cookies, and popcorn balls made by their great-aunt Mary Jo Bezdek.
She came up with the idea as a way for them to learn the spirit of giving during the Christmas season.
Mary Jo has made colorful money-changing aprons for the three boys. They will sell the goodies beginning at 8:30 a.m. Saturday at HRK in Marion.
The brothers will draw names and, out of their earnings, each also will buy one of the others a gift. Their one-year-old brother Todd will be included.
The two older boys are home-schooled. They have an assignment to calculate how much it cost them to make the decorated cookies and determine what an appropriate selling price will be. The gifts they buy will depend on how much money they raise.
