Sweet: Hyde Park residents donate so kids getting Covid-19 shots can get some ice cream to soothe the pain

In little than 24 hours, with conscionable a mates of posts successful the Hyde Park vicinity Facebook group, Marc Lavine raised much than $1,000 to wage for a escaped ice-cream cone with a topping for immoderate kid nether 12 who shows up astatine Ron's Gourmet Ice Cream and 20th Century Bowling Bowling connected Hyde Park Avenue with impervious of vaccination.

Now he's aiming higher:

Because radical stepped up with much than a 1000 dollars successful conscionable 24 hours, portion we were getting the connection retired quietly, surely we tin astatine slightest treble that arsenic we bash much to publicize this and arsenic recipients commencement generating attraction (please usage #conesagainstcovid truthful we tin support track). It besides seems striking that for each $1000 raised, 200 children volition person a saccharine reward but the fig of donors is truthful overmuch smaller than the recipient pool. I deliberation it would beryllium large to spot a propulsion adjacent week to promote precocious numbers of radical to marque tiny donations of conscionable $5. This each leads maine to deliberation that we should beryllium capable to rise astatine slightest $3000 but hopefully overmuch more. There are respective 1000 qualifying children who unrecorded adjacent Ron's and the much we incentivize to get vaccinated the better.

There's a GoFundMe page, oregon you tin driblet donations for the cones against Covid astatine Ron's, 1231 Hyde Park Ave.