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Bake me a pie just as fast as you can

Ann Dicker says she isn’t much good at hauling apples around. But Dicker played an important role this week for those who were taking apples and converting them into scrumptious pies.



































Ann Dicker says she isn’t much good at hauling apples around.

But Dicker played an important role this week for those who were taking apples and converting them into scrumptious pies.

Sixty members of the Trinity United Church have been on a mission, with the goal of turning out 900 apple pies.
And Dicker is providing them with musical accompaniment, playing the piano.

“I’m more useful at the keyboards than I am lugging the apples,” she said.

“This is a great thing for us to do, and if we needed fellowship we certainly got it.”
Dicker is no stranger to playing the ivories publicly, she adds.

“I’ve been whacking it out for Rotary for 65 years.”

Groans greeted original goal

The pie-a-thon is a fundraising project for the church, said spokeswoman Shirley Tayler, although some of the apples and pies are being given to the local soup kitchen and city food bank.

“I can’t keep up with the people here because they’re working so hard,” Tayler said.

“We have a lady I was visiting in the hospital last week, and this week she’s out peeling apples.”

Tayler said the original goal was to make 700 pies.

“There were a few groans when that was announced, but our numbers are now over 900.”

Spice Girls meet Holy Rollers

The unbaked pies are sold for $6 each, ready for the freezer or oven.

Fifty bushels of Collingwood apples were brought in, and the pie-making machinery fired up.

“Everyone has a role,” Tayler said.

“We have our Spice Girls, who add cinnamon to the pies, we have our Holy Rollers, who roll the dough, and we have our bag lady, who puts the pies in bags.”


Family affair

They also have 88-year-old Ellen Stewart, who makes sure the peeled apples get from the peelers to the cooking pots.

“I love to bake and I’ve been coming to this church for an awfully long time,” Stewart said.

“They’re all my family, since the rest of my own family left town.”