BERNARDSTON — While there’s no question that the Bernardston Kiwanis Club’s chicken pot pie dinners draw a crowd, the organization didn’t want to compete with another dinner — the one served on Easter Sunday.
“Usually, we wait for the last Saturday of the month, but we didn’t want too much on the eve of Easter,” Dan Devine, a member of the club and the chicken pot pie committee, said.
Thus the decision to move the dinner up to Saturday, a week before Easter weekend.
“Our dinner, as always, will be at the United Church (of Bernardston) fellowship hall,” Devine said. In talking about the church offering up its hall, he said, “We as a group can’t thank them enough for all they do for us and our community. Also, we’d like to thank the 7 South Bakery for all their help with pie dough and supplies.”
Dinners are $10 ($5 for children) and include all-you-can-eat chicken pot pie, a side of butternut squash, cranberries, dinner rolls, carrot cake for dessert and drinks. Seating is from 5 to 6:30 p.m. Frozen chicken pot pies to take home, for $12 each, will also be available — “while they last,” Devine emphasized.
“This dinner will have a ‘special intentions’ focus. All year long, events happen and the Kiwanis try to help,” Devine said. Money raised through this dinner will provide financial aid for activities like the senior dinners at the park, breakfast with Santa and others.