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December 4, 2025

The Independent

The Port Franks Optimists brought 71 dozen cookies to the community centre Saturday and in 40 minutes more than half were gone.

The club put on the Cookie Walk at the suggestion of Betty Urbansk, above, filling tables with all kinds of donated Christmas treats and selling them by the pound.

By the end of the event, all of the cookies had been sold.

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