This past weekend was the 43rd annual South High Marathon Dance, and it was a success yet again! Students and the South Glens Falls community gathered over the weekend and danced for 28 hours to raise money for local individuals and charities.
The marathon dance is a fun tradition for Stewart’s Shops, as we attend every year with our ice cream cart in tow volunteering to support the annual fundraiser. This year we set a record by serving 100 gallons of ice cream at the event- that’s over 1,700 cones and dishes! We also offered our support by providing breakfast items for the school’s cafeteria such as juice, milk, and eggs. The students work up quite the appetite dancing for so long, and there are lots of volunteers hard at work behind the scenes preparing meals for them.
We always have a blast scooping at this event and seeing the kids dancing for a good cause. This year our booth generated $3,723 in proceeds, and the event itself raised $801,281.38 for 37 deserving recipients.
Stewart’s Shops is proud to support this event and many others. This past week alone we were able to donate $94,425 to 105 organizations through products, gift certificates, and monetary support. Check out the listing below:
dirondack Youth Basketball
Albany Area Senior Orchestra
Altamont Community Food Pantry
Altamont Elementary
Ames Fire Department
Barringer Road Elementary PTO
Belleville Henderson Bulls Baseball
Berlin Community Food Closet
Black Nurses Coalition, Inc
Boy Scouts, Lake Placid, #8110
Boy Scouts, Troop 42, Corpus Christi
Brasher Stockholm Recreation Commission
Burnt Hills Ballston Lake Central School
Cairo-Durham Little League
Catamount Rotary, Bennington
Catholic Daughters, Saranac Lake
CCE, Oneida County
Champlain Valley Educational Services
Chatham MED Elementary
Cicero Elementary School
Colonie Girls Softball
Columbia High School
Copake Park Commission
Coxsackie-Athens Central School District
Cub Scouts, Pack 93, Whitesboro
Division Street School
Earth Angel Believe Foundation
Edinburg Common School
Farnsworth Middle School
First Presbyterian Church, Marlboro
Food Bank of Central NY
Foothills Performing Arts
Fort Edward Union Free School
Franklin Community Center
Galway Baseball Softball League
Gardiner Day Committee
Garrison Union Free School
Geyser Road PTO
Good Samaritan Food Pantry
Granville American Legion Post 323
Greenfield Food Pantry
Greenville Area Food Pantry
Greenwich Youth Lacrosse
GW Krieger Elementary
Harrisville Central School
Highland High School
Hilltop Volunteer Fire Department
Hope’s Mission of Greene County
Hudson Valley Council Band
Hudson Valley Little League
Human Concerns Center Food Pantry
Hunger Is Not An Option
Independent Living Center Hudson Valley
J & J Memorial Scholarship Fund
Johnsburg Central School
Johnstown Odyssey of the Mind
Kensington Road School PTA
Kingston Hospital- Health Alliance Foundation
Knights of Columbus, Gardiner
Make A Wish Foundation, Northeast NY
Media Temple Shrine Circus, Watertown
Middletown Springs Historical Society
Mohawk Valley Choral Society
Monroe-Woodbury Middle School
National Kidney Foundation
Ne’imah Jewish Community Chorus
Nisky NOW
Northeast Dairy Production Medicine Symposium
Oneonta Boys and Girls Club
Our Lady of Fatima, Plattekill
Our Neighbors Table
Port Jervis High School PTSA
Potsdam Junior Hockey
Red Hook Little League
Regional Food Bank of Northeastern New York
Regional Office of Sustainable Tourism
Rondout Valley School
Rutland County Pony Club
Rutland Intermediate School
Rutland Town Elementary
Saratoga Co. Sheriff
Saratoga Springs Arts District, Inc.
Saugerties Area Council of Churches
Saugerties Monday Club
Scotia Glenville Food Pantry
So.Glens Falls HS Marathon Dance
St. Luke’s Church, Schenectady
St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, Pleasant Valley
Team Albany 360
Tenandeho Canoe Association
The People’s Place
Thea Bowman House, Inc.
Theater Barn
Town of Charlton-Party in the Park
Town of Jay
Town of Poughkeepsie Little League
Twin Town Little League
Union College
USFirst Tech Valley Regional Robotics
Valley Central High School
VFW, Hadley
Village of Saranac Lake
Watervliet Little League
West Rutland Sports Booster Club
Woodland Elementary School, Syracuse
Stewart’s gives $7.5 million annually to over 6,000 non-profit organizations. $5 million of it comes from the Dake Family Foundations, so it does not impact our Partners ESOP/Profit sharing.