crowd than usual,” Arnold continued.
“This is an example of countless people
All told, the count exceeded 400 items in our community working together
to help local people who face housing
baked by LaGrange County bakers.
need.”
(Not to mention the 675 individual
County auctioneers did the calling,
slices of pie donated for Haystack
and the Shipshewana Auction Barn
desserts).
again donated the use of their facility.
And those who attended the LaSet-up and clean-up were handled by
Grange County Habitat for Humanity
two local church groups: New Life Felauction? They did their part as well,
lowship and LaGrange Church of God.
putting their dollars in the donation
Two partner families who will be
box and then eating up all those goodies. The baked goods were, in the words future LCHFH home-owners were also
on hand to pitch in: Josh and Noreen
of Mont Arnold, executive director,
Miller worked clean-up in the cook
“Just colossal.”
More than 675 people ate Haystack wagon (think of crowd-sized pans empDinners. The highest bid on a quilt was tied of cheese sauce, taco meat, and
$850, the used car sold for $2250, and rice), and Bill Dingley sold fried pies
and then helped to tear down the
the buggy was purchased for $6000.
quilt racks. Sweat equity hours are
“We had a great crowd, a larger
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accumulating.
Both shifts of the Haystack Supper were dished up by the Brighton
Chapel Youth Group, and the ice cream
machine was “womaned” by Girl Scout
Troop 00342, led by Kellie Wetzel,
LCHFH partner family #19.
“This is another of our community
service projects,” Wetzel explained.
“We have also volunteered for the
LaGrange Animal Shelter.” The troop
is a multi-age group, including Daisies,
Brownies, Juniors, and Cadets.
The troop covered all facets of the
ice cream sales: taking orders, “coning”
the ice cream, and making change for
the sales. “Oh, and we did eat some,
too,” Wetzel joked.