
There are so many people that Farmer Pete wants to thank. If I started to list all of you, I would most certainly forget someone. So I decided to make this a blanket thank you to everyone who volunteered and to those that donated money, baked goods, and silent auction items. And a thank you to those that bought pumpkins and mums and baked goods. I know some of you paid a whole lot more for cookies than what they were worth since the bake sale alone took in $2800!
For those that thanked me, I had very little to do with it all. Volunteers just showed up and did their jobs. The Silent Auction and Bake Sale ran like well-oiled machines. The grill gang never left their station and performed admirably. (We ate 200 hot dogs and 300 hamburgers.) People jumped in to direct traffic and sell drinks. With little time to organize and not much publicity, the whole event just came together. I was never so proud to live in Ledyard.
I am going to make one small exception to my blanket thank you. Ethan Foltz was one of the very first people to call me when the article about Alice Acres ran in the newspaper. Farmer Pete is pretty special to the Foltz family. Pete touched their lives like he has touched many of ours. Not able to collect at school, Ethan went door to door in his neighborhood, and then stood up in Church asking for donations.
Ethan arrived on Saturday with a container with the $543.70 he collected.
Thank you Ethan. You are a shining example of what our community is all about.