Saturday, November 21, 2015, the parishioners from St. Augustine's Catholic Church located on Main Street, Austin, Pennsylvania, held a bake sale to help pay for the costs to keep it open for business.
The Bake Sale was held in front of the Masonic Building on Main Street.
I hear that it is taboo to state publicly how much fundraisers make, but the Bake Sale was an overwhelming success. It was well worth the effort. Many people baked items for the sale and the citizens of Austin and the visiting hunters supported the fundraiser Big Time.
Here are some pictures I took.
Many thanks to Bill and Patty Solomon's children and their friends who were an enormous help in setting up, tearing down, and transferring the tables and baked goods to the church to be set up and broken down again upon conclusion of the mass at 5:30 P.M.
Angie received 19 pie orders for Thanksgiving with Peanut Butter being the most popular and Pumpkin coming in second.
St. Augustine's parishioners will hold another Bake Sale this coming Saturday, November 28th. from 9:00 A.M. to Noon in front of the Masonic Building on Main Street. There will be no Bake Sale after the Mass on the 28th.
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Although there was a drizzle of rain yesterday morning at 8:00 A.M. when we began to pack the car with baked goods for the St. Augustine's Bake Sale, it was warm outside.
We had set up and were ready for business by 8:30 A.M.
By 11:00 A.M. it was windy and cold and we had only made three (3) sales. Patty Solomon and I each purchased some items and we packed up and moved the tables and baked goods to St. Augustine's Parish on Turner Street. Thank goodness Patty's husband, Bill, came by driving his pickup truck as I had to stop and get my breath four (4) times carrying the table from St. Augustine's Parish to the Gazebo on Main Street.
St. Augustine's Parish has a Saturday Mass at 4:30 P.M. and we hoped to pick up a sale or two after the mass as we still had a wide-variety of delicious looking baked goods.
We ended up with over $300.00 in sales.
A heart-felt thank you to those of you who supported our Bake Sale yesterday and turn a big disappointment into a feeling of joy and gratitude.
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| This beautiful sign was purchased for St. Augustine's Parish by Stanley Swank, a former Austin resident who owns Shop n Save in Coudersport, Pennsylvania |
The grand total of the Bake Sales held on November 21st and November 28th, including the pie sales, was $748.25.
These two Bake Sales enter the Awesome Austin category as they not only had the overwhelming support of the Saint Augustine parishioners, but also some members of the United Methodist Church of Austin helped baking pies and goods for this endeavor.
A sincere thank you to everyone for making this the success it was.
