LMC Apple Butter Festival has another successful year

By Eve­lyn Long –

Many young­sters will be camp­ing at the Lutheran Memo­r­ial Camp thanks to the gen­eros­ity of vis­i­tors to the 38th annual LMC Apple But­ter Fes­ti­val held Sun­day, Octo­ber 14.

There were 750 vis­i­tors who gen­er­ated a total of $3,000 in pro­ceeds from the fes­ti­val. All funds derived from the event help to fund camp atten­dance by youths.

Boost­ing the pro­ceeds was the annual Silent Auc­tion with 180 items displayed.

New his year was the corn maze and the cup cake dec­o­rat­ing con­test. There were many craft booths and apple good­ies from pie, frit­ters, cook­ies, candy, cup­cakes, and of course, apple butter.

Among those din­ing in the lodge were Sandi and Mike Poyer and their daugh­ter, Han­nah of Pick­er­ing­ton, who return every year for the event. “We use to camp here and we were mar­ried right there,” said Mike, point­ing to the fire place in the Cedar Lodge.

Joe and Joanne Sher­man of Nor­walk, took a break from work­ing at the Erie Huron Chap­ter Thrivent Food Stand to eat their favorite, bean soup.

Also return­ing was Job Ebenezer of Colum­bus, with the pedal power bicycle.

Ebenezer actively works to help the poor here and in other coun­tries through sus­tain­able tech­nol­ogy which he pro­motes through­out the world. He demon­strated that with the pedal power attached to the bicy­cle, peo­ple in third world coun­tries can pro­vide power to com­plete many chores such as saw­ing wood. Tech­nol­ogy for the Poor is a non –profit orga­ni­za­tion, noted Ebenezer. He gave a demon­stra­tion of saw­ing wood while some­one ped­aled the bicy­cle which gen­er­ated power to the saw.

The staff of the camp thanks the fol­low­ing for their dona­tions and help with the fes­ti­val: CArd­ing­ton Boy Scout Troop 30; Cindy Pearce, Carol Ault Dance Fac­tory, Wol­ford Mar­tial Arts Stu­dio, Thurs­day Night Gang band, Lin­colnShire Farms , Carla Myers and Jackie Leather­man, Bob and Sue Fett, Pine Lakes Golf Course, Chris Shoe­maker, Dean Red­mond, Erie Huron Chap­ter Thrivent; Cen­tral Ohio 4 County Thrivent, Greene County Thrivent Finan­cial for Luther­ans, St. John Lutheran Church, Wind­fall, Avalon Food Ser­vice, GFS Food Ser­vice, Gar­dens and Gifts and Splat­ter Park Auction.

Rod Pearce is the camp direc­tor and Sharon Craw­ford is exec­u­tive assistant.

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