The annual Greek Bake Sale returns on Friday, Nov. 12, so now’s the time to get your orders in before all those amazingly scrumptious sweet and savory confections – baklava, spanakopita and other Greek treats – are gone.
This year’s sale will be much like last year’s. With COVID-19 still around, orders will be picked up outside Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church, located across from Memorial Hospital at 722 Glenwood Ave. Just drive up to the hall behind the main church, and your order will be brought to you.
Members of the church parish and the Ladies of Philoptochus have been hard at work since early September and worked through October, three days a week, eight to nine hours a day rolling dough, dicing nuts, sifting flour and everything it takes to make the sale a success. And the couple of weeks before the sale requires even more hours and help with packaging, says bake sale chairwoman Thea Ballas.
“Being a small parish, we have small work crews,” she says. “We have a core group of five people, then we get another three or four people who come for a few hours when their schedules permit. Many of them work or have to pick up children from school. Once we get closer to the sale, we will get more help.”
Items for sale this year are: