Bukowski’s community outreach involved going door to door with the rest of the Minnesota Grey Ducks, dressed as girl scouts, in order to sell cookies for charity. The chosen charity was the Grey Duck Conservation Fund. The team was unsure whether Grey Ducks were an endangered species, nor were they sure if the grey ducks referred to the actual animal or the team, but they were still going to apply their collectively low IQ towards a good cause. Bukowski’s contribution was the baking of his family recipe lemon shortbread cookies, a personal favorite of his, but a variety of cookie flavors were concocted. One strange type was flavored like a grey duck and marketed as a savory option to the other sweet delicacies. The sale went surprisingly well, and although some of that could be chalked up to the comedic presentation of the team, none of those buying cookies suspected that this was a quite earnest and serious event being thrown by the Grey Ducks. In the end, the team made the conservation fund quite wealthy, and they assured the existence of grey ducks for at least the next century.
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