Skillet skills help raise money

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (WWLP) - In Springfield, some men are using their skills with a skillet to win admiration from young people who need solid role models.

Some of these men are school teachers and others are involved in social service. Yet, when in a kitchen they're known as the brothers who cook. 

22News spoke with Tahon Ross, an english teacher at JFK Middle School who said, "There's been a rash of violence lately. And especially men of color pulling the trigger as well as receiving the bullet, so it helped saturate the youth with positive images."

This 11th annual Brothers who cook event also helped raise money for the Springfield Alumnae chapter of Delta Sigma Theta sorority and the American Heart Association.
 

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