Customer Appreciation Night

The Bethesda store's Customer Appreciation Night will be on December 4, 2011 from 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm. Bethesda will be teaming up again with OXO in supporting Cookies for Kids' Cancer.

This is an invitation only event with lots of goodies, how-to clinics, and up to 15% off store-wide (some exclusions apply).  Click here to get your invitation.

How Strosniders Hardware is helping Cookies for Kids' Cancer

Strosniders Hardware is teaming up with OXO, maker of the Good Grips line of household tools, to raise funds for pediatric cancer research. Strosniders Hardware will be hosting a bake sale during its Customer Appreciation Night and donating proceeds to Cookies for Kids’ Cancer, a not‐for‐profit organization committed to raising funds to support research for new and improved therapies for pediatric cancers. Through local bake sales, Cookies for Kids’ Cancer provides the inspiration and support for individuals, communities, and businesses to help fight pediatric cancer.

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer was founded in 2007 by two OXO employees, Gretchen and Larry Witt, who were inspired by their son Liam’s battle with pediatric cancer. The concept originated when Gretchen decided to hold a larger‐than‐life bake sale to raise money to help fund a pediatric cancer treatment in development. That December, 250 volunteers helped make and sell 96,000 collies in just three weeks, raising over $400,000. Since then, local bake sales all over the country have helped raised more than $2.5 million for pediatric cancer research. Since the beginning, OXO employees and retailers have donated their personal time baking cookies and holding bake sales.

This year OXO will donate up to $100,000 in support of Cookies for Kids’ Cancer through the sale of limited edition “Good Cookie” Spatulas, available at Strosniders Hardware and other fund‐raising efforts.

To support Strosniders’ local efforts, OXO has also donated special prizes to be raffled off at the Bethesda, Maryland Bake Sale.

Cookies for Kids’ Cancer are not about one child or one type of pediatric cancer. It is about changing the facts of pediatric cancer for the better, forever. Childhood cancers are the number one disease killer of children ‐ more than asthma, muscular dystrophy, multiple sclerosis and pediatric AIDS combined. Despite all these statistics, more than 25% of children diagnosed with cancer will not survive because of a lack of effective therapies and the reason for lack of therapies is simple – lack of funding. "It is our sincere hope that our partnership serves to build an even broader awareness for this great cause founded by tow of own employees,” says Alex lee, president of OXO. “With the help from communities everywhere, we can raise the funds and  awareness necessary to change the face of pediatric cancer research forever."

Visit www.cookiesforkidscancer.org to find how you can support Cookies for Kids’ Cancer. For more OXO’s involvement with this worthy cause, visit www.oxogoodcookies.com.