The Friday menu says “anything that is left over”. If it was mentioned in this blog during the week we put it out this morning. Sausage, creamed dried beef, French toast, eggs, fried apples, watermelon, etc.
We cleaned up from breakfast with packing to head home in mind. Carl broke down the outdoor griddle area with Pat’s help and filled the back of his truck.
Rich and Anne went on site to help a group for the second day with roofing.
Mollie, Bette and Makenzie put the rental house in order.
Most of the preparation for tonight’s dinner of pizza and tacos was done in advance. We were cleaned up and out by six.
Rich and Anne have left for home.
Our next big event is tonight’s Mary Keller memorial ice cream social at eight o’clock. Makenzie stayed at the school after dinner and will help Carl serve the ice cream to the campers and their guests, the owners of the houses they worked on.
After we put out breakfast tomorrow morning the rest of us will start home also. We all have had a great experience, just ask any of the CAMT members who are named in this blog, we’d love to talk about our experiences.
Friday, July 08, 2011
Thursday, July 07, 2011
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Today was the last day of the Bike VA event. On Sunday and again today we were the recipients of all the unused items from the rest stops here in the county. Again Bagels galore, peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches, cookies, trail mix and bananas. Very ripe bananas.
So every morning this week Bette has been making banana smoothes. First using orange juice, then later in the week she added apples, and then blueberries left over from our Thursday pancake breakfast menu. Low and behold they are very popular. She is kept busy making batch after batch in the mornings. We have now added a sign to the pitcher of smoothes – Presbyterian Smoothes.
Dinner was chopped sirloin and real mashed potatoes followed by watermelon as dessert.
So every morning this week Bette has been making banana smoothes. First using orange juice, then later in the week she added apples, and then blueberries left over from our Thursday pancake breakfast menu. Low and behold they are very popular. She is kept busy making batch after batch in the mornings. We have now added a sign to the pitcher of smoothes – Presbyterian Smoothes.
Dinner was chopped sirloin and real mashed potatoes followed by watermelon as dessert.
Wednesday, July 06, 2011
Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Mackenzie is ok and reported to work on time this morning.
The Middle School Principal has been having breakfast with us most days as he comes in to work. Today he brought his wife and daughter along. Having his company has allowed us to have several conversations about the school district here. Like West Virginia, the school district is all of Pulaski County.
As previously described we have Wednesday Afternoons off and all of us went a different direction. Mollie and Bette went to the Heritage Trail Museum, Pat and Carl followed a map of Artisan Shops throughout the County. Rich and Anne visited the Virginia Tech campus and the memorial from the shooting there of a few years ago.
We all came together for dinner. It was a good dinner, and typical of when we get together socially, a good discussion followed. Tonight’s topic – Covenant’s mission projects and works.
We only have two more days before we head home. The weeks working here with Mid-Atlantic Christian Endeavor go by so quickly.
The Middle School Principal has been having breakfast with us most days as he comes in to work. Today he brought his wife and daughter along. Having his company has allowed us to have several conversations about the school district here. Like West Virginia, the school district is all of Pulaski County.
As previously described we have Wednesday Afternoons off and all of us went a different direction. Mollie and Bette went to the Heritage Trail Museum, Pat and Carl followed a map of Artisan Shops throughout the County. Rich and Anne visited the Virginia Tech campus and the memorial from the shooting there of a few years ago.
We all came together for dinner. It was a good dinner, and typical of when we get together socially, a good discussion followed. Tonight’s topic – Covenant’s mission projects and works.
We only have two more days before we head home. The weeks working here with Mid-Atlantic Christian Endeavor go by so quickly.
Tuesday, July 05, 2011
Tuesday, June 28
Yes, we are continuning to break records. With seven people and everyone knowing their job it has been easy work and early completion times. With just sixty people here to be served each meal our initial reaction is we serve more than that at Coatesville each month.
This leaves time for three of us to work on site with some of the groups. Rich Smith and Anne have been helping in the mornings on various projects.
Mackenzie Hughes spent the whole day with Grace Lutheran from Macungie on demolition of a house before a bulldozer comes in to complete. Well as it turns out not the whole day. She stepped on a nail and her grandmother had to take her to the local hospital for a tetanus shot. Which still took several hours of the day.
Here in Dublin, about five miles from the hospital, is a billboard that has a digital display tell everyone the minutes waiting time at the emergency room. It has never been greater than 25 minutes.
This leaves time for three of us to work on site with some of the groups. Rich Smith and Anne have been helping in the mornings on various projects.
Mackenzie Hughes spent the whole day with Grace Lutheran from Macungie on demolition of a house before a bulldozer comes in to complete. Well as it turns out not the whole day. She stepped on a nail and her grandmother had to take her to the local hospital for a tetanus shot. Which still took several hours of the day.
Here in Dublin, about five miles from the hospital, is a billboard that has a digital display tell everyone the minutes waiting time at the emergency room. It has never been greater than 25 minutes.
Monday, July 04, 2011
Monday, June 27, 2011
Zip, zip we’re done. Carl and Pat go to the school by 5:30 and put out all the products each of our crew needs to do his/her job. The rest arrive at 6:00.
Rich Smith is tutoring on the griddle to take over next year as a weekly food manager. Bette, Ann and Mollie package cut apples in baggies for the lunch line. McKenzie bakes a sheet cake for dessert tonight and then does a sheet pan of brownies for tomorrow’s lunches. Pat lays out the breakfast bar items. Mollie cuts watermelon pieces to go with the cake for tonight. We serve French toast and bacon to those waiting at 7:00 and are done by 7:30. Cleaned up and out at 8:05. A record.
This afternoon might take a little longer because we need to fill out the salad bar items. But we will see if we can continue to break time records.
Rich Smith is tutoring on the griddle to take over next year as a weekly food manager. Bette, Ann and Mollie package cut apples in baggies for the lunch line. McKenzie bakes a sheet cake for dessert tonight and then does a sheet pan of brownies for tomorrow’s lunches. Pat lays out the breakfast bar items. Mollie cuts watermelon pieces to go with the cake for tonight. We serve French toast and bacon to those waiting at 7:00 and are done by 7:30. Cleaned up and out at 8:05. A record.
This afternoon might take a little longer because we need to fill out the salad bar items. But we will see if we can continue to break time records.
Sunday, July 03, 2011
Sunday, June 26, 2011
Mollie Hughes, Bette Bowes, and Mollie’s granddaughter McKenzie arrived right on time this afternoon giving them time to settle in. We will repeat the same schedule as last week. At 5:00 we head to the school to make sandwiches. Rich Smith and Anne Zayeitz did not want the dorm experience of group living in the rental house so they have opted to drive an extra twenty miles each day by staying at a motel. Because of the Bike Virginia they could not get closer.
They pull up in front of the house and follow us to the school. Everyone familiarizes themselves with the school cafeteria layout for handling the serving of meals, setup for lunch, and then complete the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Afterwards we all head to Shoney’s back in Dublin for a dinner together. McKenzie returns to the school with me for the second Dori Gilstrom ice cream social at 9:00.
The attendance this week is only 60. We still have the same amount of work to set up and cleanup but serving goes quickly. McKenzie and I are back at the house by 10.
Last year while we were in West Virginia McKenzie became close with some of the teens from Grace Lutheran Macungie PA and has stayed in touch all year. It is the reason she and her grandmother are here this week.
Each participant in attendance has an envelope with his or her name taped to the wall in the back of the cafeteria. The object is to write notes of friendship or appreciation. On Saturday morning as they are leaving the envelopes are handed out so they can be read on the drive home. Pat and I had several notes in our envelopes. These two hit home.
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They pull up in front of the house and follow us to the school. Everyone familiarizes themselves with the school cafeteria layout for handling the serving of meals, setup for lunch, and then complete the peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. Afterwards we all head to Shoney’s back in Dublin for a dinner together. McKenzie returns to the school with me for the second Dori Gilstrom ice cream social at 9:00.
The attendance this week is only 60. We still have the same amount of work to set up and cleanup but serving goes quickly. McKenzie and I are back at the house by 10.
Last year while we were in West Virginia McKenzie became close with some of the teens from Grace Lutheran Macungie PA and has stayed in touch all year. It is the reason she and her grandmother are here this week.
Each participant in attendance has an envelope with his or her name taped to the wall in the back of the cafeteria. The object is to write notes of friendship or appreciation. On Saturday morning as they are leaving the envelopes are handed out so they can be read on the drive home. Pat and I had several notes in our envelopes. These two hit home.
Thank you so much for preparing and planning all of our meals for the week. We are always excited to see your canopy and griddle when we pull in.
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Upon arriving at work camp my youth leader said that we were in for a real treat because you were the cook. Now after a week here at camp, I completely agree with my leader. The food was Spectacular!
Saturday, July 02, 2011
Saturday, June 25, 2011
Our first group from CAMT packed last night and started home early this morning.
On Saturday we serve a bare bones breakfast of cereal and juice. And left over pizza. You can’t believe how many teenagers will eat pizza for breakfast. The first group of High School Church fellowships head for home.
Pat and Carl get a day and a half off until group two of our CAMT teams arrive Sunday late afternoon.
On Saturday we serve a bare bones breakfast of cereal and juice. And left over pizza. You can’t believe how many teenagers will eat pizza for breakfast. The first group of High School Church fellowships head for home.
Pat and Carl get a day and a half off until group two of our CAMT teams arrive Sunday late afternoon.
Friday, July 01, 2011
Friday, June 24, 2011
Earlier in this blog I reported that Bike VA started today. I thought it was a motorcycle rally. I was wrong. It is truly a gathering of bicyclists 1700 of them. They have booked all the motels for miles around and many of them are camping in tents at the local high school.
Being the end of the week for breakfast we serve “whatever we have left over”. In this case it is French toast and eggs over easy and cinnamon rolls,
I mentioned Thursday is our big meal, but Friday is our kid’s meal. Pizza and tacos, with chili in place of soup on the salad bar. The kids really love it even though it is a do it yourself meal. They go through 30 lbs of hamburger as they build some wild combinations in flour tortillas. The spice combinations alone would give an adult heartburn.
So at 8:00 after the praise service we again serve ice cream. This year is the First Annual Mary Keller Memorial ice cream social. A quote from Mary has been our motto here. “The kids are here to serve the community, we are here to serve the kids.
Both Mary Keller and Dori Gilstrom have served CAMT by participating with what was PACE (Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor) and is now MACE for many years and are still remembered.
Actually our crew this week has many years of service under our belt.
It’s been nine years for Pat and Carl Lotz, Mollie and Millie have at least twelve years.
Being the end of the week for breakfast we serve “whatever we have left over”. In this case it is French toast and eggs over easy and cinnamon rolls,
I mentioned Thursday is our big meal, but Friday is our kid’s meal. Pizza and tacos, with chili in place of soup on the salad bar. The kids really love it even though it is a do it yourself meal. They go through 30 lbs of hamburger as they build some wild combinations in flour tortillas. The spice combinations alone would give an adult heartburn.
So at 8:00 after the praise service we again serve ice cream. This year is the First Annual Mary Keller Memorial ice cream social. A quote from Mary has been our motto here. “The kids are here to serve the community, we are here to serve the kids.
Both Mary Keller and Dori Gilstrom have served CAMT by participating with what was PACE (Pennsylvania Christian Endeavor) and is now MACE for many years and are still remembered.
Actually our crew this week has many years of service under our belt.
It’s been nine years for Pat and Carl Lotz, Mollie and Millie have at least twelve years.
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