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Last year’s Young Life Cake Auction started with a cake-eating contest with some of the Young Life youth. Competing were, from left to right, Lilly Hunst, J.T. Henriksen, Jonny Wall and Candace Goodsell, with Lindsay Thompson, the area director of Young Life, doing the play-by-play. Jonny Wall was the eventual winner. (People’s Press file photo)
Young Life cake auction is not about cakes, but about kids
By JEFFREY JACKSON jjackson@owatonna.com OWATONNA — Make no mistake about, there was a lot of cake in the Owatonna High School gymnasium that Saturday.
A lot of cake. How much? There were 90 cakes on the block for the 41st annual Young Life cake auction held last April, each cake with a prize
associated with it, and an additional 100 cakes that were up for sale. When all was said and done, the auction had raised more than $81,000 in that one day, prompting Lindsay Thompson, the area director of Young Life in Owatonna, to call it a “big day” for the organization.
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