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  • Saturday, November 11, 5:00 pm – Farm to Table Turkey Dinner

    South Middleborough Grange #337 will host its annual Farm to Table Turkey Dinner on Saturday, November 11 at 5 pm at the South Middleborough Grange, 570 Wareham Street, South Middleborough. Adults $10 and kids $5. First come first served. Tickets may be reserved in advance by calling 508-947-1904.

    Menu includes: fresh cranberry juice, non-alcoholic beverage, roast free range turkey, homemade stuffing, mashed potatoes, butternut squash, green beans, cranberry sauce, pickles, rolls and butter and homemade pie for dessert. All proceeds benefit South Middleborough Grange meeting hall floor restoration project.

    The Grange and members of the Veterans’ Ladies Auxiliary will hold a bake sale as well. Homemade baked goods will be for sale before and after the turkey dinner. The bake sale is a joint service project of the two organizations to raise funds for to award scholarships to two Middleborough High School students to attend the Boy and Girls State Convention. The public is invited to shop at the bake sale and it is not necessary to attend the turkey dinner although the events are being held simultaneously.

  • Pie in The Sky 2012

    Garden Club of the Back Bay member Maureen O’Hara reminded us of this terrific Thanksgiving benefit, and her boss Ken Tutunjian of Coldwell Banker Boston is selling pies! Buy pies directly through Ken by searching his name in the Pie in the Sky directory at www.pieinthesky.org.  More than a fundraiser, Pie in the Sky fosters community spirit and engages the public in the mission of Community Servings — Massachusetts’ free home-delivered meals and nutrition program for the critically ill.

    Each November since 1993, Boston’s best restaurants, bakeries, caterers and hotels donate thousands of pies that over 500 volunteers then sell to family, friends and colleagues. Each pie costs $25, providing a week’s worth of hearty home-delivered meals to a Community Servings’ client and a tasty Thanksgiving treat to the buyer.

    Corporate donors provide financial support and donations of in-kind services. Thanks to the dedication and generosity of our pie sellers and volunteers, $.90 of every $1.00 raised in 2010 went directly to feeding Community Servings’ clients.

    Rest assured, when you support Community Servings through Pie in the Sky, your contribution goes directly to our neighbors in greatest need — homebound individuals and families struggling with HIV/AIDS, cancer and other life-threatening illnesses and who are too sick to shop or cook for themselves.

    Here is how you — the communty — make Pie in the Sky happen.   Over 150 Bakers throughout Greater Boston bake and donate thousands of apple, pecan, pumpkin and sweet potato pies.  Over 600 Pie Sellers take orders from their family, friends and coworkers in the weeks before Thanksgiving. You can buy pies and make financial contributions to Community Servings by visiting pieinthesky.org.  75 volunteers gather at the Greater Boston Food Bank for our annual “Box Party” to label 15,000 pie boxes in just 3 hours. Groups of volunteers then head out to deliver bundles of pie boxes and pie tins to each of our 150 bakers. Volunteers pick up the donated pies from pie bakers across Greater Boston and deliver them to “Pie Central.” It takes a lot of space and manpower to organize 15,000 pies!  Pies are then shipped to over 60 public distribution points in Boston and the surrounding suburbs. Happy pie buyers retrieve their pies on the day before Thanksgiving at their preselected pick-up location.  Pie Buyers enjoy their Thanksgiving celebrations. Thanks to their generosity, Community Servings’ clients sit down to lovingly prepared home-style meals — on Thanksgiving and every day.