Bake sale offers ribbon-winning treats

By ANNE KAZMIERCZAK
Register Reporter
Sure as the fair, the annual 4-H fair bake sale will be here again Aug. 2 from 1 p.m. “until sold out,” noted Southwind Extension District Family and Consumer Sciences Agent Kathy McEwan.
“It’s one of our bigger projects,” she said of the fund-raiser whose proceeds go to support 4-H Council projects such as scholarships for day camp and summer camp, McEwan said.
Typically, about 200 entries are received, she noted.
The bake sale is unique in that purchasers are buying the actual fair entry that a 4-Her submitted for judging earlier that day.
“They’ll bring a cake and the judge will take a slice for judging and maybe another slice for display,” mcEwan noted. “What is left is put up for sale.”
Loaves of bread, plates of cookies, cupcakes, caramel rolls — all will grace the table located at the northeast corner of the Recreation Community Building near the parking lot entrance.
Award winners will be displayed nearby, so buyers can see if they’re purchasing blue-ribbon baked goods — although everything should be tasty, McEwan said.
“We always have a nice variety of items,” she said.
“Come early for the best selection,” McEwan noted, because “within the first one to two hours,” most everything is gone.