Top Pizza Event Combines Food, Fun to Support D205 Students

• Submitted by Elmhurst District 205 Foundation.

The 5th annual ‘Top Pizza’ event sponsored by the District 205 Foundation for Educational Excellence drew an enthusiastic crowd of more than 450 guests on April 14 to enjoy the tasty sample selections from nine local pizzerias while being entertained by a variety of student musicians at the York High School Commons.

“We cannot thank these generous pizza vendors enough for donating their delicious pizzas to help make the event possible and a huge success each year in supporting education,” said Carol Mui, Foundation Board Director and Event Chair.

The event, in addition to the MOD Pizza "eat and earn" on Saturday, April 16th raised over $5,800 that will support Foundation programs such as Thiems Educational Grants, a Study Skills Program for K-8, and district initiatives such as the Mobile Learning Implementation and a new literacy curriculum.

Pizza fans praised all of the pies that were offered with multiple toppings that including the standards as well as specialty pizzas. After sampling all of the vendors, guests completed a ballot to select their favorites in several categories including best cheese, best sausage, best specialty, best sauce, kid’s favorite and top overall pizza.

The voting was extremely close and the top three named Elmhurst Overall Favorites are Lou Malnati's, Mama Maria's and Roberto's. Fratello’s barbeque chicken was voted Top Specialty, while DiLeo’s Sausage pizza and Armand's cheese pizza were award winning. Sarpino's received an Honorable Mention for Best Sauce, and newcomer MOD Pizza voted Kid’s Favorite with Papa John's also a winner in that category.

“Thank you to all of the pizzerias for participating in the light- hearted competition and your donation of time and pies. You are all winners for helping to raise funds that benefit Elmhurst Public School students!” said Lisa Fanelli, Foundation Board Executive Director.

Visit elmhurst205.org/foundation to view results.