Good weather, great turnout for Maple Syrup Festival

By Eve­lyn Long…
Spring like weather helped to attract 691 peo­ple to the 38th annual Lutheran Memo­r­ial Camp Maple Syrup Fes­ti­val held Sun­day, March 11.
Rod Pearce, the camp’s direc­tor, was pleased that those attend­ing gen­er­ated $4,000 in gross receipts, all of which will help to send kids to camp this sum­mer.
There were 550 din­ners served to those attend­ing and they were served by a crew of over 50 vol­un­teers, who included mem­bers of Pi Phi Epsilon Soror­ity from Cap­i­tal Uni­ver­sity, the youth group from St. John Lutheran Church, Grove City; vol­un­teers from the Vine­yard Church, Bowl­ing Green; pre­vi­ous LMC staff mem­bers, and mem­bers of Card­ing­ton Boy Scout Troop 30.
Pearce and the camp staff thank the fol­low­ing for their sup­port of the fes­ti­val: the Avalon Nine band, the Card­ing­ton Rotary (grill), the Marengo Coun­try Mar­ket, Gift Card, Avalon Foods for the cof­fee, Gen­eral Mills, Todd Jol­liff from Lin­colnshire Farms for the wagon and horses that gave the tour rides; Cindy Pearce for bak­ing,
Don Moniger for donat­ing the seeds and St. John Lutheran Church, Wind­fall, for donat­ing the pan­cake mix. In addi­tion to maple syrup from the camp, maple syrup was also used that was pro­vided by Erl­sten Broth­ers Maple Prod­ucts, Mount Gilead.
In addi­tion to the wagon ride tours of the camp and the assort­ment of maple good­ies sold from the Cedar Lodge, the vis­i­tors enjoyed a video pre­sen­ta­tion of scenes from past fes­ti­vals and activ­i­ties at the camp. It was pre­pared by Pearce.
Pearce thanked all those who sup­ported the campers with their atten­dance.
He said that the camp’s lead­er­ship team is cur­rently work­ing with two other pas­tors to estab­lish a new wor­ship com­mu­nity in Mor­row County.

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