Shelton Dental Practice Exchanges Candy for Cash

Something sweet happened recently at Dental Associates of Connecticut in Shelton.

Kids learned that helping others has its own rewards. Adults got to feel like kids again and the whole community came just a little closer together.

It was all part of Dental Associates of Connecticut’s annual Halloween Candy Buy Back that took place on November 4th. Kids came ready to exchange their bags, sacks, and pumpkins filled with Holiday candy for cash.

Valerie Battistelli of Shelton summed it up best, “The candy buy back program is wonderful. Great way to teach random acts of kindness.”

This years candy collection totals were pretty impressive. The Dental Associates office in Shelton collected 119 pounds of candy handing out $2.00 per pound, or $238 to the children. In all, the four Dental Associates of Connecticut offices handed out $1,736 for 868 pounds of candy collected. Over the 12 years that Dental Associates has been offering the Candy Buy Back program, almost 5 tons of candy has been collected.

Where does all that candy go you might wonder? The candy, along with dental care packages gets donated to our troops overseas through Operation Gratitude, and to Give The Kids The World organization.