A Very Busy Pirate Sunday.....
Evening everyone.....
As most of you know a very good friend of mine passed away last Saturday night. The viewing services were Thursday and the funeral was on Friday.
My friend was a painting contractor, and we found out the day of the funeral that he didn’t have life insurance.
Last minute on Friday night a bunch of his close friends decided we were going to hold a benefit luncheon for him to raise money to help offset the costs.
One of the guys was able to get a Knights of Columbus hall for us free of charge, with access to the kitchen. Once we had a place together we came up with a time of 2pm-4pm.
The word spread quick through text, Facebook, Twitter and whatever else they were using. Before we decided on a menu, we had already sold 52 tickets at $25 per ticket.
I volunteered to cook, and a friend Rick did as well. We decided on doing Ken’s favorite foods. So the menu was Caesar salad with homemade dressing. Penne vodka (real authentic vodka sauce, with pancetta and onion). And sausage, peppers, onions with potatoes.
Steve got a bakery to donate 20 loaves of Italian bread which we turned half into cheesy garlic bread.
I made 16 quarts of homemade marinara sauce Saturday as the base to the vodka sauce. Rick and I met up last night and did 4 full trays of sausage peppers, onions and potatoes.
We made 20 pounds of penne in 5 pound batches to keep it fresh. Making the sauce for each batch as it was cooking.
The turnout was AMAZING.....
We sold over 140 tickets, took in an additional $1400 in straight donations. And Rick write a check at the end for 5K. So we managed to give Eileen $10,000 to help out.
At the end of the luncheon there was only a small amount of food left. Maybe enough to feed three or four people.
Thought I’d share that since I just got home and needed to post....
Oh yeah it’s #piratesunday...
Here’s your shiny......
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You and your friends did very well for the family of Ken! I am so very proud of you! WOW... awesome effort and accomplishment.
And I love that Spartan Warrior silver round, bestie!
Have a wonderful week ahead, and take care 🥰🌺🤙
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I wish we could’ve done more. It was way more then any of us thought, so that’s good.
You should you sent me this as a monster raffle prize.🤗🥰🌹
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Very thoughtful for you and your friends to help Eileen with the costs, she has enough burdens without having a big debt on top of her loss.
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Thanks Raven, there’s a crew that was ten of us but is already down to seven. We are a pretty tight knit group, even though several are now out of state. Known them all for nearly 30 years.
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That is an amazing example of Friendship!
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Thanks Ron it needed to be done, it was great teamwork.
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Simply amazing, thats true friendship. good job d510!
Thank you sir. Wish I could have done more. Appreciate you stopping by.👍
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The Shiny is beautiful @silverd510 .....But what you guys did, I can't find any word other than amazing!!!!🤗
Such a blessing to his Wife and the Family!!!!😀🙂🙂
Thanks. We all wanted to do something but we’re going to do it at a later date until we found out the financial situation it caused. I’m glad we had a great turnout and raised a nice sized sum of money.
We will probably do something down the road as well,
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The help you guys did is what it's all about, it really puts this Steem stuff in perspective.....
That is true community coming together to help someone in need! Way to go @silverd510! Loss is hard; for the friends and for the immediate family. You did good, my friend! Oh, and awesome shiny too! Take care🤗
It’s a great group of guys, we would do anything we can for each other. Thank you for the kind words. I was totally exhausted writing that post, it reads horribly, I passed out cold in the recliner shortly after. I only slept about three hours in four days. Appreciate your support.
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