Boys and Girls Club celebrate National Pizza Day

Kids learn pizza making skills at Feb. 9 pizza party

BY BELEN WARD BWARD@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM

Fort Lupton’s Boys and Girls Clubhouse at Butler Elementary transformed into a busy pizzeria Feb. 9, thanks to Wholly Stromboli owner Melissa Rickman.

Rickman brought her Wholly Stromboli team and some traveling pizza ovens to Fort Lupton’s Boys and Girls Clubhouse to mark Pizza Across America and National Pizza day Feb. 8, donating and serving pizzas for over 40 children in need fromFort Lupton’s Butler and Twombly elementary schools for a pizza party with music and prizes.

“I am told that for some of these children, school meals and snacks at the clubhouse are their main source for meals and nutrition,” Rickman said.

She also spent much of her time demonstrating and showing the kids how to make pizza.

“I’m super excited. We have been planning this for a long time, and I’m glad it nally all came together. e kids have been excited about it too,” said MaKayla Heid, Director of Boys and Girls Club.

Rickman and her team brought