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The Lions Club dish up large piece of the pie every year

By Mary Moffat While Frank Faber took home an early prize of a coconut cream pie made by Carlyle’s very own PIEMAN, Dennis Feduk, the $43 he paid for each of the six delicious slices was just one of the many highlights of the 28 th Annual Carlyle & D

By Mary Moffat

While Frank Faber took home an early prize of a coconut cream pie made by Carlyle’s very own PIEMAN, Dennis Feduk, the $43 he paid for each of the six delicious slices was just one of the many highlights of the 28thAnnual Carlyle & District Lions Club Fundraising Supper on March 7 at the Carlyle Memorial Hall.

While the final total raised has not yet been announced for this year, the biggest piece of the pie over the years has been the impressive $700,000 collected by the Lions Club. While they do not benefit in any way from all of this work, the community sees every cent donated back in many ways. Long time auctioneer Ward Cutler, while a little under the weather, did his usual excellent job as he managed to both weave history and fun into his job of selling off the donated items. This is Cutler’s 24thyear. To add to the flavour of the evening, the master of ceremony was Wayne Wilson who has held the job since 2002, and once again showed by his skills that practice makes perfect.

With about 193 people on hand to enjoy a roast turkey and pork dinner prepared by Eileen Corrigan and Linda Chapman, Cornerstone Theatre members were behind the bar serving drinks and raising money for their group. The Lions Club acknowledged Jack & Diane Wilson for donating the pork since 2002 as well as the two hardworking ladies for preparing the meals since 2005.  They each received a gift certificate for a night off from cooking!

The evening provided many fun ways to participate in the fundraising, and each attendee enjoyed the wonderful meal along with a special door prize located conveniently at their seat. With over 250 items available to win by purchasing tokens, conceivably everyone had a chance to win all night long. Tokens for the Dutch auction, raffle tables, hunger games and a $1000 travel voucher were available for either 20/$20 or 100/$80.

Vermillion Energy sponsored the Hunger Games 2019 with the first prize of $700 in food coupons won by Murray Mills. Dwayne Bye and Don Corrigan each won $50 in coupons. Duncan Brown was the winner of the balloon auction while John Pott took home $700 in the 50/50 draw. Dorothee and Adam Corrigan won the $1000 travel voucher. Another popular item was the fifty surprise bags available for purchase at $10 each, and offering gift certificates and vouchers ranging from $10 to $100 from a variety of businesses.

While the winners of the live and silent auction items would be too long to list, we do have to mention that one lucky winner bid $650 to receive one pie a month for a year. Now this reporter will just need to investigate when the pies will be delivered and then plan for an impromptu visit for a slice of one of Feduk’s famous desserts, worth every penny!

So if you missed out on attending the event this year, make sure you plan to include a ticket in your budget for 2020 and leave some room for the pie.