Good fun and good food for a good cause
by Ana Watts
Concerned and committed New Brunswick Anglicans who attend Bishop’s Dinners throughout the diocese this fall are treated to lots of good news as well as good food. The Faith for a Lifetime campaign in support of diocesan youth camps Medley and Brookwood is at more than 40 per cent of its $1 million goal, new money is added to that total at each dinner and construction of a new main building at Camp Medley is underway.
At each dinner, Bishop Claude Miller outlines the success of our myriad diocesan youth programs and
Peter Irish, chair of the Faith for a Lifetime capital campaign, offers a dazzling presentation on all the things that money has done and will do to improve the youth camping facilities.
This year two dinners were planned for the sprawling Archdeaconry of St. Andrews, one at the Westfield Golf and Country Club and another at the McCain Center for Culinary Training in St. Andrews. About 170 people attended in total. They all enjoyed the presentations, the local entertainment and the food. The Westfield crowd started the meal with Italian wedding soup and hot biscuits, moved right on to prime rib roast beef and wound it all up with a difficult decision -- lemon pie or black forest cake.
In St. Andrews, where the bishop’s nephew David Irvin was head chef, the meal began with winter squash soup and Gorgonzola cheese, followed by a difficult choice -- pork tenderloin with a fruit stuffing or poached salmon with shrimp sabayon sauce. The dessert choices were even more difficult -- cheesecake, orange chocolate mouse or key lime fruit tart.
Dinners in Fredericton and Saint John were equally delicious.
The dinners are all held in lovely surroundings and have plenty of time built-in for Anglicans from throughout the region to chat.
The $30-a-plate meals continue in Chatham on Nov. 8 at the Miramichi Golf and Country Club, contact Keith Trevors 506/622-7502 for tickets; Moncton on Nov. 15 in the Republic Ballroom, Ramada Plaza Hotel, Crystal Palace, contact Ann Pinnell 506/855-5114 for tickets; and in Woodstock on Nov 22 at the Knights of Columbus Hall, contact Tammy Jones 506/328-4304 for tickets. They all begin with a cash bar reception at six with dinner served about 7.
The campaign total now stands at $406,179.
For a movie and image birds-eye view of the proposed new facility and progress updates on the campaign -- Click here.
