Sisterhood...

As far as I'm concerned women are usually the doers and shakers of most successful organizations. Is it that they have had lots of practice as they started young mediating schoolyard squirmishes, caring for skinned knees and hurt feelings? Maybe it's because women have been multitasking running households for ages. It should then come as no surprise that even in our religious institutions that it is the women that are the real backbone of the organizing.

Well this holds true in our congregation. Each year monies are raised by this Women's League which consists of a relatively small group of dedicated women to enable numerous beautification/repair projects in our building along with camp scholarships, etc... Wednesday night was our candle/rose ceremony for the installation of officers. These officers make sure we complete projects like sponsoring receptions/ Sabbath dinners for our community in addition to providing bereavement meals and so on. Just watching out for our small community and raising monies for our general upkeep.

One such fundraiser is the food booth at the 37th Great River Folk Festival which happens to be this weekend. Since Saturday is our Sabbath, you can only find us there on Sunday.

I will be helping 'chop' starting at 7 am. We will chop and chop and chop cucumbers, tomatoes, onions, peppers and parsley to make lots of Israeli salad.

So if you just happen to be in La Crosse on Sunday for some good music, be sure and stop by our booth to treat yourself to either lunch/dinner as you can buy a plate of humus, tabouli and babaganough served with pita. We will also have homemade pastries like strudel, Russian tea cakes and baklava made by our members. YUMMY.

Our biggest fundraiser, the corned beef sandwich box lunch sale caused quite a discussion as to questions of if we should hold the event/ when it could happen/ how many to make.It was decided to plan on selling a 1000 sandwiches this year for the November 1st date. We have to presell. I tried to get them to agree to the 800 but they wouldn't listen. Do the math - about 6 hours to get 1000 box lunches made and delivered if they are 'large' orders by noon, and the remaining will be picked up by foot traffic. Even though we have a great assembly line of sandwich makers starting about 6am...

OK with the cost of corned beef at about $14/lb the sandwiches are not this big! But it does make your mouth water, doesn't it? Included in the box will be the corned beef sandwich on rye bread,a bag of potato chips, a kosher dill pickle and homemade brownie all for $9.00. So do let me know if you'd like to treat your office/ family that live in town. We'd love to sell you as many as your heart desires of our delicious corned beef lunches. This is about the only time of the year corned beef makes it back to the End of the Rainbow Valley.