Pies, pies and more pies
A Digby Relay for Life team kicks off fundraising with pie sale Concert, silent auction, bake sale to take place April 14 at Beacon Church
Carolyn Milbury and the Digby Chicks Red Hatters – a Relay for Life team – were busy in the kitchen preparing for their first pie fundraiser.
The team made homemade apple pies and sold them at the Digby Royal Canadian Legion Branch 20 on March 15.
With an assembly line of 12 helpers, teammates and friends of the group, they made 58 pies.
“We were good team players and we all worked really well together,” said Milbury.
Pies were being sold for $ 8 each or two for $ 15. They weren’t cooked so buyers could
Tickets are on sale for an upcoming event that will benefit the Cape Forchu lighthouse, an evening of music and more to be held at Beacon United Church.
Scheduled for Saturday, April 14, this will be the third edition of an event that has been quite popular, said Dave Warner, vicepresident of the Friends of the Yarmouth Light Society.
Aside from the musical entertainment, the evening will include a silent auction and bake sale. There also will be food samples from the Keeper’s Kitchen, the seasonal café at the lighthouse site.
The musical portion of the evening is slated to start at 7 p.m., but the proceedings will get underway at 6. The hour-long period before the music will give people a chance to do a number of things.
“They can get their annual membership (in Friends of the The Digby Chicks Red Hatters recruited friends and volunteers to help with the fundraiser. enjoy them that day or freeze them for later.
Those who volunteered helped with the whole process of making the pies – from peeling and cutting the apples, to bagging them to getting them ready for sale.
This is the first year the team Dave Warner, vice-president of Friends of the Yarmouth Light, with a painting by Chester Poole, one of the items for the silent auction that will be part of an April 14 event benefitting the Cape Forchu lighthouse. Yarmouth Light),” Warner said. “They can bid on items in the silent auction. They can have a taste of some of the foods that the Keeper’s Kitchen is planning on providing during the summer.
Stay tuned to the Digby Relay for Life Facebook page for more details and upcoming fundraisers: www.facebook.com/ digbyrelay4life
has launched a pie fundraiser for the Relay for Life. They can also buy some gift shop items, so we have some items we’re going to bring from our gift shop, things they can take home as souvenirs of the lighthouse, that sort of thing.”
“But everybody already knew they were going to be good,” Milbury joked.
The Relay for Life in Digby is scheduled for June 16 and
The evening’s musical lineup will include the Shantymen, Gordon Benjamin, River Trio, Mike Durkee and the Moonlight Swing Band. The entertainment will go until about 8:30 p.m., Warner said.
The musicians will perform in the Beacon church sanctuary, he said, “and then there’s a side room where we do the additional things, so it’s all there right inside the church doors, not in the hall, more in the church and that area.”
Proceeds from this year’s event will go towards upgrading the museum at the Cape Forchu lighthouse property.
“We’ve made some changes over the last few years,” Warner said, “from a series of rooms with pictures to more rooms that reflect where the lighthouse keeper lived during the early 1900s. So we found some furniture that’s been donated. We’ve found some items that we’re making into rooms – a bedroom, a dining room, a living room – to give the feeling of how they lived at that time, the lighthouse keepers.” teams have already begun fundraising.
Other teams have started a donut fundraiser and are selling raffle tickets.
Proceeds from this year’s event will go towards upgrading the museum at the Cape Forchu lighthouse property.
For more information about the event, contact Liz Noble (902-761-2569) or Lorna Saulnier (902-742-2417).
As for the upcoming fundraiser, Warner says bake sale items would be welcome if people want to bring something.
For those who might like to join the Friends of the Yarmouth Light, the membership fee is $15 for one person, $25 for a couple, $40 for a family. There also is a corporate membership.
Warner says the Friends of the Light are grateful to Shirley Hubbard, a Yarmouth County resident who offered to organize a concert to benefit the lighthouse. Hubbard is well-known in the local area for the numerous fundraisers she has organized over the years in support of various causes.
Tickets for the April 14 event at Beacon United Church are available at City Drug Store or from Lorna Saulnier at the Bank of Montreal.