BERNARDSTON — Franklin County Technical School’s culinary program supplies the dough for the Bernardston Kiwanis Club’s chicken pot pies. Now, the club wants to raise some dough for the Franklin Tech students in the form of scholarships.
“We’ve been talking about it for quite a while, trying to build up that reserve and get it going,” Kiwanis Club President Dan Devine said of a scholarship fund for Franklin Tech’s graduating seniors. “We’re just working on the logistics of how we want to do it. … It would be nice to set someone up with a little bit of money to start a business or go to school.”
Money raised from the Kiwanis Club’s drive-thru chicken pot pie dinner on Saturday will support starting a scholarship for Franklin Tech students, as well as bolstering the club’s existing scholarship fund for Pioneer Valley Regional School students. The club typically awards three $500 scholarships to graduating Pioneer seniors.
The drive-thru meal will be held from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the United Church of Bernardston. Meals, which include chicken pot pie, butternut squash, cranberry sauce, a dinner roll and carrot cake, cost $12 and can be reserved by calling 413-834-5484.
Although Devine said there is no specific fundraising goal for the meal, he said club members “always want to shoot for the moon.”
Frozen chicken pot pies, which the Kiwanis Club assembled Tuesday night at the Bernardston Veterans Club, are also available for $12.
“We couldn’t do this without the Vets Club or the church,” Devine said. “It’s just amazing the help we get.”
Those coming to pick up their meals are directed to enter the church parking lot via Hartwell Street. Kiwanis Club members also offer delivery to homebound residents.
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