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Girl bakes for a good cause

Jessica Vassar, age 11, had the same dream as many little girls: she wanted a horse. Her parents were both experienced horse-people who gave up their horses when they had their children. They had a 2-stall barn on their property and told Jessica that if she could raise enough money for a horse, they would let her get one.

So, Jessica started baking.

With wheat that she ground herself, she baked and sold bread priced at $3.50 per loaf and cinnamon rolls at $10 a dozen. In just under two years, she raised $1,000 and picked up a horse named Pete from the local Alaska Equine Rescue. Pete only cost $500 and the rest was used to buy a trailer to transport him. Pete may not be the horse that dreams are made out of, with 15 years of life as a pack horse in a national park in his past, but with the help of Jessica's mother, he is turning out to be the horse of Jessica's dreams.

She is still baking away, not only to keep her loyal customers happy, but to finance what she hopes will be a successful season on the local show circuit.

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Filed Under: Cooking With Kids, Methods
Tags: alaska, bake, baking, business, children, cinnamon buns, horse, horses, kid, kids

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Super Weiss

6-17-2006 @11:19AM Super Weiss said... Isn't there some kind of law or at least journalistic integrity rule about writing stories (with first and last name) of children this young? Maybe it just applies in more embarassing or personal situations.... molestation, etc.
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