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Bojangles' celebrates South Carolina teachers

April 28, 2011

Bojangles' will sponsor a fundraiser from May 16 through May 29 to celebrate South Carolina Teacher Appreciation Month.

More than 100 Bojangles' restaurants across South Carolina will raise money for education and will provide all educators in the state with free iced tea at participating units throughout May.

During the first two weeks of May, Bojangles' will offer customers an opportunity to purchase a symbolic apple – $1 for red or $5 for green – each with a space for the donor to write their name and the name of a teacher they would like to honor. The apples will then be featured on the walls of each restaurant throughout the month.

Bojangles is also partnering with South Carolina Future Minds and the community to award individual teachers during the month. Teachers who are nominated online will be placed in a random drawing to win a Caribbean cruise for two.

Bojangles' also recently surprised the newly named South Carolina Teacher of the Year Patti Tate of York School District Three in Rock Hill with a five-night Caribbean cruise. Barnwell School District 45 Teacher of the Year Lisa A. Wyndham also received a cruise, and $1,000 was awarded to Spartanburg School District Seven Teacher of the Year Ann McCall Salway, winner of the Charlie Dickerson Award for community service, with $500 designated as a gift to Salway and $500 for the non-profit of her choice.

Bojangles' is the founding sponsor of South Carolina Teacher Appreciation Month. The company's president and CEO Randy Kibler is a graduate of South Carolina public schools.