by Dennis Dalman
editor@thenewsleaders.com
Cookies – countless thousands of cookies – have made a real dent in helping pay off the 10-year building bond for Immaculate Conception Church in Rice.
The addition to the church, which includes a huge kitchen and dining hall, was built about 10 years ago. The debt for that structure was paid off last year, partly thanks to the yearly pre-Christmas Cookie Sale. This year, proceeds from the Cookie Sale will be used for other kinds of building improvements as they become needed, said Patti Krystosec, church secretary.
Krystosec and many other volunteers staffed the Immaculate Conception dining hall Dec. 5 during the Cookie Sale. Tables throughout the huge space contained plate after plate of homemade Christmas cookies, which customers admired before buying.
Besides the cookie tables, about a dozen vendors lined the walls of the dining hall, vendors such as the Rice Women of Today, Scentsy, Essential Oils and Tupperware, among others.
Last year, Krystosec said, the Cookie Sale brought in more than $3,000. This year’s sale, she predicted, will certainly top that amount.
The cookies are donated by many parishioners and also by religious-education students.
Volunteer cookie-bakers and decorators also helped Thursday and Friday nights recently in the kitchen of the dining hall. Slightly more than 100 parishioners helped out, and volunteers baked 14 kinds of cookies.
When asked how many cookies had been baked, the three women at the check-out table, gave wide-eyed looks of wonder, and Krystosec said, “Oh, my, thousands! Thousands of cookies!”
A family from Rice checks out cookies-for-sale at the annual Christmas Cookie Sale Dec. 5 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Rice. Funds raised from the sale will go toward building improvements for the church and annex.
Terry Wolbeck (left) and Ashley Moeller, members of Rice Women of Today, sell hand-painted wine glasses at the annual Christmas Cookie Sale Dec. 5 at Immaculate Conception Catholic Church in Rice. Besides thousands of home-baked cookies, the event also featured about a dozen local vendors, including the Rice Women of Today, and their wares.
