Lou Peiffer and Gloria Kierstead had a steady line of customers at the pie table.

Big yield for Saturday feast

The first church supper of the season on Saturday, Oct. 2 was a big success, thanks to bean meister Stephen Bither and all the volunteers who set up, served, greeted, cleaned up and — of course — came to eat all the marvelous food prepared by even more volunteers.

Many of the dishes were prepared with locally grown produce, adding a special flair to an already bountiful banquet.

More than $900 was raised by tickets sold at the supper with $1 for each ticket purchased going to the South Portland Soup Kitchen.

The next church supper will be from 4:30-6:30 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 6.

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A long line of people waited for a selection of food when the supper began at 4:30.

As always, Audrey Jordan contributed a beautiful arrangement of flowers for the supper.

Supper organizer Stephen Bither samples from pie, on the advice of Lou Peiffer.

Servers Ginny Jordan and Jaymie Chamberlin took a well-deserved break to enjoy some of the good.