Bridgewater's 175th Birthday Celebration - TACO SALADS any one?

September 4 and 5, 2010

2010 is the Town of Bridgewater’s 175th birthday. In order to celebrate this exciting event the town had a 4 day celebration with a parade, historic home tours, town cook book, bands, a time capsule, a 5K race and lots of concessions as well as free carnival rides, a visit by the Royal Dukes Marching Band and fire works. Concessions? What a wonderful fundraising opportunity. So this time we decided to sell TACO Salads. “Buy some Taco Salads, buy some Taco Salads……” Katie and Kiersten could be heard all over Oakdale park advertising (they even got their picture in the Shenandoah Journal) delicious Taco Salads and it really paid off. We sold 290 salads or so, along with drinks, cookies and candy. Preparation of 70 lbs of ground beef, slicing of tomatoes, onions and lettuce took place each day for a few hours prior to the actual concession stand hours. Mrs. Nicholas’ kitchen was quite full. Who said that too many cooks in the kitchen is not good. It worked just fine for us.

Chicken BBQ Fundraiser - August 21, 2010

3 am is indeed very early, especially when it’s a Saturday morning and you really would like to sleep in and not have to wake up. Unfortunately this is exactly what many of our World Stride Students and parents along with Mrs. Nicholas and Mrs. Rhodes ended up doing on Saturday August 14th. It was time for our Chicken BBQ fundraiser. Once we were all awake, and had assigned something for everyone to do the early morning hours really did not make any difference. 630 half’s of chicken were put on the racks to be grilled over hot coals at the Pine Grove Church BBQ pit. After several hours of turning, saucing and wrapping the chicken and trying to avoid inhaling too much smoke, we successfully sold all chicken in less than 2.5 hours. WOW!! Our BBQ chicken was very popular and it DID taste very good.