Waffle Shop!

If you live in the Dayton area, do take time to stop in at Waffle Shop.  

I can’t tell you how proud I am to take part in this event one more time.  So many stories to tell! 

•  First off, Waffle Shop makes money that it is commissioned to give away to folks and organizations either in need or about good works.  Since 2003 (when I started keeping track of such things), Waffle Shop has awarded over $63,000 in Outreach Grants to groups like the Canterbury Court retirement community in West Carrollton, the Dayton International Peace Museum, Daybreak, Homefull (used to be The Other Place), CROP, a couple of FISH Pantries, and the Society for the Advancement and Welfare of Sierra Leone, Africa.  Trust me, it’s some list. 

•  Such a lunch!  Homemade waffles, local sausage, freshly-made pie, hand crafted sandwiches, kitchen-created soups.  You’ll find something to savor, I know.  

•  But Waffle Shop is so much more than lunch!  

Stop by the Bazaar for special handcrafted gifts and, maybe, an antique or two.  

Just across the aisle is Elsie’s Attic.  Do you like garage sales?  Then you’ll love Elsie’s Attic.  Discarded treasures abound!

And you’ll be asked if you’d like to take part in the raffle.  Again this year we have two separate contests, one for a 32 inch Toshiba flat screen television, the other for a furnished doll house.  Both make amazing gifts!  The dollhouse this year even has lights in it.  A buck a throw, six for five.  Such a deal!  ;-) 

Can’t stay?  Everything on the menu is available for carry-out.  Feel free to fax in your order and we’ll have it ready when you get here.

When you’re at work, don’t you like something sweet to eat about mid-afternoon?  Behold the bake sale, just as you leave the dining room.  Good stuff.  All handmade.   

And finally, live music.  If you’d like, you could even pull up a chair and just sit and listen to our performers:  

Tuesday:  Rula and Rima Issa / accordion and piano

Wednesday:  Percy Jones / keyboards (organ and piano)

Thursday:  The Bisson Sisters / harp, violin, piano

Friday:  Jerry Nelson / accordion

Chat with a Celebrity Baker, too: 

Tuesday:  Georgie Woessner, Classical 88.1 general manager

Wednesday:  Episcopal Bishop Tom Briedenthal

Thursday:  Alan Pippenger, Requarth Lumber president

Friday:  Kim Faris, Lite 94.5 deejay

•  We do our best to support local merchants at Waffle Shop.  While we procure much of what we need at GFS (I like to think of them as a Springfield company), we buy our sausage and sandwich meats from Landes Quality Meats in Clayton/Englewood;  cherry, apple, and pumpkin pie from Ashley’s Pastries in Oakwood;  coffee from Dayton’s own Boston Stoker (fair trade when we can get it); and poinsettias from Stockslager’s Nursery in New Lebanon. 

Heavens, there’s still more to say -- but enough for now. 

Do try to come down.  It’ll be fun.  And you’re helping us do really good stuff.  Thanks!  ;-) 

for menu and fax info: 

http://christepiscopal.com/documents/2011-WaffleShopFAX.pdf

Today’s Elder Idea:  It is the role of the church to give of itself for the world's reconciliation, not preparing man for heaven.

Rev. Gordon S. Price

quoted in The Magazine

Dayton Daily News (28 March 1982)