My mom is very involved in the Goldsboro Salvation Army Auxilliary, and today, they had a major fund-raiser, the barbeque plate lunch.
I worked there yesterday, arranging flowers from Mom's yard into vases and putting pieces of pound cake and napkins into boxes for companies who ordered plates and into bags for drive ups.
This is some major operation and at one time sold 1800 plates, but that number is decreasing these days because a lot of other organizations have gotten into this fundraising. They have people come in to eat, drive up for pick up and delivery to companies. Any way you want it, you got it.
Today, I spent time out on delivery and dropped off close to a hundred meals. Sure glad the driver knew his way around Goldsboro and had a GPS machine. Some of the business locations were not immediately apparent. One business was a CPA firm, and I came in saying, "Here's tax relief." That got a few laughs. They were quite busy with a whole lot of paper in this increasingly paperless society.
This was a hard deal to beat. A whole meal consisting of drink, dessert, bbq pork, cole slaw, potato salad, and hushpuppies for $6. And, a lot of that goes for a good cause. Wilber's provided the most of the food and gave a good price to the SA as did Pepsi-Cola, a NC creation in nearby New Bern.
If you were to go to Wilber's it would have cost you considerably more.
The number of plates serves today: 1138. Number of helpers: at least 60. Organization: more than you'd expect. Ate Too Much: well, at least one person.
Good eatin' for a Good cause. --RoadDog
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