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Charities Taking Sweet Leftovers

If trick-or-treating left you with mounds of Mounds, donate some to soldiers overseas and the needy in Cherokee.

Two businesses have opened up to accept donations of  for worthy causes.

 will buy back current patients’ candy for $1 per pound up to five pounds.

Donations from non-patients are accepted, too. The candy will be mailed directly to Marines in Afghanistan and Iraq from one of the office managers whose brother is in the service.

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You can drop by Cherokee Children’s Dentistry from now until Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m., with the exception of 1 p.m. to 2 p.m. when the workers go on break.

After one day, office managers for the dentistry said they have collected almost 10 pounds of candy for the troops. 

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 is also taking donations of candy to hand out with their food orders, said Dale Cooper, donations coordinator. 

A Facebook post from a  said the Cobb and Cherokee locations would also take donations for the 5,000 Christmas stockings they would fill this season.


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