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Hizzoner Michael Bloomberg in New York has decided to do his own version of the Chicago infrastructure bake sale.

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Lucy and the bake sale may be the start of one thread, but there is a second of equal importance.

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Time after time, parents step up to make cookies for the bake sale, coach sports programs after school, weed and maintain the school grounds, put up bulletin boards, work the book fair and more.

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Meanwhile, Lee is joining with fellow food celebrities Emeril Lagasse, Guy Fieri, Bobby Flay and Martha Stewart to host her second World's Largest Bake Sale on May 1, an event that raises money for the New York food bank.

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Every month, the schools send home notices about ways they want us to raise money, from selling wrapping paper to working the bake-sale stand.

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