Father/Daughter Team Wins A&E Roastery's Earth Day Label Contest

A&E Custom Coffee Roastery in Amherst is pleased to announce that the winner of the Earth Day Label Contest is Phillip McArdle and his ten-year-old daughter Alexis McArdle. The pair worked together to create their label design as a way to support the Colegio Evangelical Isaias Emmanuel in the Dominican Republic.

“My daughter, Alexis, and I made the label together. It was a project to show support for my dad who is a retired school administrator volunteering time and resources to help a school in the Dominican Republic,” the elder McArdle said. “He found the school while doing a short-term mission trip through G.O. Ministries. It is a K-8th grade school and the money will fund teacher development and technology."

In ten days, nearly one thousand votes were cast by A&E’s Facebook fans for the eight design submissions. The McArdles activated their community at the Crossway Christian Church in Nashua to put them over the top.

A&E’s Earth Day Blend coffee will go on sale on April 1. It will be available through May 15 in the café and online. For every bag sold, A&E Coffee will donate $2 to the McArdle’s charity of choice: the Colegio Evangelical Isaias Emmanuel in the Dominican Republic. In addition, A&E will match the donation, meaning, for every bag of Earth Day Blend sold, $4 will be donated to the school.

“Our heartiest congratulations to Phillip and Alexis,” said Emeran Langmaid, owner of A&E Coffee. “We’ve already put the label into production and we’re excited to start selling it next month. It’s such a great story and we hope to sell a lot of the Earth Day Blend so we can make a nice donation to their school.

“I also want to thank the seven artists who submitted designs for the contest. We are so grateful that they took the time and used their great talents to create such wonderful art for us. I wish we could use all of the labels,” Langmaid said.

The seven artists who submitted designs are: Valerie Hart, Jessica Collin, Barbara Warnke, Samantha Grenier, Joseph MacDonald, Shaun Nelson and Andy Van Cleave.

The limited-edition Earth Day Blend will be on sale in the Amherst café, located in Carriage Depot at 135 Route 101A in Amherst, and online at www.aeroastery.com.