FPC Clam Festival 2010 News and Notes

Thanks to all the many, many friends and members of First Parish who devoted their time and energy to making this a successful festival!

This year’s festival was hot, hot, and hot. At one point on Saturday when we were strategizing about making more lobster rolls or not, and whether the stew was going or not - I was struck by how thankful I was that we have this new building with some rooms that are air conditioned; what a blessing. With the temperature at 94 degrees we did sell a fair number of water bottles and soda but the sale of lobster stew was off from previous years.

Making decisions during the festival about making more lobster or crab rolls, or stew, is always a gamble. There was a hot debate about making lobster rolls again on Sunday morning - and as it turned out - thankfully, we sold every one of them that we made.

Again, thank you to all to men, women, boys and girls who helped make this orchestrated chaos so successful. It never ceases to amaze me at how this church family pulls it together and gets it done. You all owe each other a big hand!!

I wanted to share a bit of the details of how we did this year compared to last so I'm including a comparison.

Overall we were under last year by 3.1%. I consider that a rousing success given the hot weather and the very slow sales of stew.

The green was up by 2%, the church food booth was down by 4.9%, the book sale was down by 3.8%, pink elephant was down by 10.1%, but then breakfast was up by 20.5%.

I would like to thank the chairs for each of the major areas, Judy Tupper, Betty MacPherson, Deb Coito, Joe Janco, Cheryl Colesworthy, Barbara Stevens, Mary Thorp, and of course Sarge and Deb Dugas. You all make this effort run so smoothly!! What a team, rest up, Clam Fest 2011 is only 11 months away!
Paul Stuart

2010 Totals/ Percentage Change from 2009
Diner - $30,488/ -4.9%
Books - 6,610 /-3.8%
Pachyderm – 8.938/ -10.1%
Green – 9,539/ 2.0%
Breakfast – 4,485/ 20.5%

Total – $60,060/ -3.1%

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YARMOUTH CLAM FESTIVAL 2009

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