Hurlington Family Bakes 3,000 Cookies To Share With Community

The Hurlington family of Peterborough has been busy baking cookies to distribute to the community, as they do every year at this time.

Photo courtesy of Alvea Hurlington

The family moved to Peterborough in 2005, and out of a desire to do something special to get to know their neighbors, Cookie Day was born.

Each year around Christmas the family has a ‘mega-bake day’ and bakes enough cookies to share with the community.

Now, 16 years later the family is known as ‘The Cookie People’.

This year, the family baked a total of 3,000 cookies in one day including six different flavours. They were able to put together over 200 boxes of cookies for anyone that wants one.

Alvea Hurlington, the oldest sibling, documented ‘cookie day’ on social media.

In one comment she told a friend ‘Anyone can do something fabulous for the people around them no matter how simple’.

The Hurlingtons are no strangers to good deeds. When the COVID-19 Pandemic hit in March 2020 the family quickly put together a flyer letting their neighbours know that if they needed help picking up groceries or urgent supplies, temporary childcare or even just a friendly phone call.

“Everything we do, we do it as a crew,” Hurlington said in a past interview with PTBOCanada.

In her social media post, Alvea wrote “With all the craziness going on in our world the Hurlington family would still like to inspire you to do something special for your community.”

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