Hi Troop 125 families,

As you all know, the Troop is gearing up for its annual fundraiser where we make and sell Apple Pies at Paint Creek’s Center for the Arts’ “Arts and Apples Fair” in the park in downtown Rochester during the weekend of Friday Sept. 11 through Sunday Sept. 13.  For you new families, this is our only fundraiser for the year and with this money we are able to fund the Troop for the entire year.  Therefore, it is mandatory that we have participation from all families in order that we can produce and sell the number of pies that we need for this event.  

This year is unique because in the past we always shared the weekend with another non-profit group who made their own pies and sold them on Friday evening and Saturday.  However, this group has pulled out of the Fair, which has left us to take over the entire weekend.  We feel that this is a great opportunity for us and have been working hard, along with the advice of PCCA to figure out the logistics of all this.  We will not be making more pies than we have in the past but will be purchasing pies from PCCA and selling those pies on Friday and Saturday.  As always, we will be making our own pies on Friday and Saturday which we sell on Sunday. 

By doing this we will need more man hours for the selling of the pies as we will be covering the entire weekend in the park.  We will be asking for help from the older scouts in order to do this.  Right now we are working on the schedule in order to figure out the best and most efficient way to do all this, without putting an extra burden on our families.  On another note, we are looking into a different place to make our pies in order to lower our costs.  If any of you have a suggestion or know of a large facility which has at least 8 convection ovens that we could possibly use, please contact us.  We really appreciate all your support and involvement  and will be updating you regarding scheduling soon.

Thanks again,

The Apple Pie Committee

Diane Iglesias

artisticframing@comcast.net
      

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