When it comes to cookies, where there is a will there is a way!

[December 16, 2020]    Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without the …wait for it…COOKIES! While this is not quite the way the song actually goes, for many folks in Lincoln it is a fact. You can’t celebrate Christmas until you’ve picked up a few dozen cookies for the Humane Society of Logan County and the Lincoln Christian Church.

Though two separate events, both are held starting bright and early on the same Saturday just a couple of weeks before Christmas each year.

The annual cookie sale for the two entities was one of those events that was threatened by the coronavirus, but as they say where there is a will there is a way.

For those who have to have the cookies from the church, the way was a drive through event hosted this past Saturday morning under the awning at the church.

Drivers lined up early and by 8 a.m. there was a line in the church driveway and out onto the street in front of the church. When volunteers signaled that it was time, they drove one car at a time under the canopy and placed their orders. The compromise this year was that buyers could not do their own picking of cookies. None seemed to mind as they order multiple boxes of cookies by the dozen.

On the north end of town a similar scenario was going on in the north parking lot of the Lincoln Masonic Lodge. The Humane Society of Logan County had begun in November taking orders for boxes of three dozen. Placing the order ahead of time guaranteed that buyers would get the cookies they were desiring.

As in the past, there were also cookies, pies, and cakes available on a first come first served basis for those who were willing to take a chance and not place an order.
 

Both the church sale and the sale at HSLC rely on the baking talents of their members and friends. At the HSLC, Nancy Schaub, who coordinates the event along with Mick and Diane Turner and Ruth Green, said that there were 50 bakers who prepared over 350 dozen cookies, 30 pies and 14 pans of cinnamon rolls. She said that she thought perhaps the sale was a bit smaller this year because of the lack of options and the presence of covid, but still, the HSLC was thankful for what they earned and thankful for all those who helped get ready for the unconventional bake sale.

In years past at the HSLC shoppers could come in and select their own cookies by the dozen. That was not permitted this year, but again, no one seemed to mind. Schaub said that in the end, she believed that the HSLC earned more than $3,500 from their efforts this year.

It is good to see that the community will not be suffering from a lack of sweets this Christmas thanks to the wonderful efforts of Lincoln Christian Church and Humane Society of Logan County.

[Nila Smith]