Salt Lake City Moms earn money for school, buy 45 Apple iMacs

Apple Store“More than $100,000 worth of new goodies was given to one South Jordan [Utah, suburb of Salt Lake City] school. Students and teachers are enjoying brand new computers, much needed supplies, even new minivans. This was all made possible by a handful of mothers in the neighborhood,” Annie Cutler reports for ABC4.com.

“Angela Merrill and about thirty other moms knew that cutting Campbell’s soup labels would get them something, but no one knew it would lead to 45 brand new iMac computers, a shopping spree for all of the teachers, and two minivans. They say it felt like Christmas in March,” Cutler reports.

Cutler reports, “And still another part of the prize? Two minivans. The school district is auctioning the vans off because they have no use for them.”

Full article here.

[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan J.” for the heads up.]
South Jordan, Utah has some smart moms.

36 Comments

  1. Yaah, cut the Mormon and polygamy cracks. People should be able to live any way they choose. That\’s what f-ckin FREEDOM is all about.

    That being said, it does boggle the mind how they purchased not one but TWO minivans that WERENT NEEDED by the school! I am assuming they were brand new, too.

    Wow, couldn\’t that money have gone to even more Mac installations, or Xserve set-ups, or software licenses?

    Anyhow, some of the nicest, kindest people I have ever met come from that general area. Good for them.

    P.S. Go out and buy or rent Big Love, the HBO series about polygamy with Bill Paxton, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloe Sevigny, etc. Good stuff.

  2. “That being said, it does boggle the mind how they purchased not one but TWO minivans that WERENT NEEDED by the school! I am assuming they were brand new, too.”

    If you had RTFA, you’d know that the mothers won the minivans as part of a prize from Cambell’s Soup. They donated the prizes they won to the school. The school then decided it didn’t need the minivans. The school auctioned them off.

    Isn’t reading comprehension a beautiful thing?

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