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| Mayor Kevin Dumas gave free coffee and even sold a few at Honey Dew Donuts items to help raise breast cancer awareness. The mayor learn how to work the register from employee Joan Keough of Seekonk.(Staff photo by MARTIN GAVIN)
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ATTLEBORO
Some city residents got two surprises Thursday morning at the Honey Dew Donuts drive-through - free coffee handed to them by Mayor Kevin Dumas.
Dumas helped work the mid-morning coffee rush as part of Honey Dew's Get Behind The Counter and Behind National Breast Cancer Foundation awareness campaign, with local officials in all shop locations in Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire stopping in to help.
"Not only do I know people, not only have there been people in my family who have been affected, but until there is a cure, we have to make people aware," Dumas said. "What better way in our fast-paced world than when people come in for their coffee."
Also helping out at the Pleasant Street location Thursday were Attleboro Police Officer William Monterroso, Attleboro Fire Chief Ronald Churchill and franchise owners Bill and Joan Keough.
Each Honey Dew location also gave every woman customer a free coffee, in conjunction with International Women's Day and in recognition of Honey Dew's $100,000 donation to the National Breast Cancer Foundation.
Honey Dew President Richard Bowen presented the check at the company's Canton location.
"I came to find out (how many) women will die from breast cancer, and the figure was staggering," Bowen said. "Especially to me, where I have six daughters and a beautiful wife. It's a great cause, a great mission and we're on board until this horrible disease is cured."
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