Spaghetti, community, ‘incredible’ strawberry pie highlight St. Philip’s supper

Tue, 07/18/2017 - 8:00am

    Attendees at St. Philip’s Episcopal Church’s spaghetti supper Monday night on Hodge Street were supporting a cause and enjoying the company and food. Among them, Pat Stauble, there with fiance for life Denny Terry, was glad for a menu that departed from the church’s well-known fish chowder. She can’t have milk, but the spaghetti, she could, she said.

    Stauble and Terry met online at ourtime.com and have been together three and a half years. The spaghetti was very good, she said. “Thumbs up,” Terry agreed. For dessert, the two shared the last piece of strawberry pie. “It’s incredible,” Stauble said.

    Nadine Brown was enjoying a lemon bar St. Philip’s member Gail Grundy made. Brown attended the supper with husband George. They volunteer for the church, at the bargain basement and in other ways. She said the suppers are a good idea. “This (church) is like a community center in a way,” giving back to the community, she said. “That’s why I support it.”

    Grundy also made spaghetti sauce and chocolate chip magic bars. She’s belonged to the church for four decades and still likes to help however she can, she said.

    Anne Dill, in a “Have you hugged an Episcopalian today?” apron, cooked the spaghetti. She avoided making it lumpy, she said. “That was very important to me.”

    Some attendees were from the church on the other side of Route 1, First Congregational Church UCC of Wiscasset. Its pastor Josh Fitterling said supporting St. Philip’s made sense because they are all siblings in Christ and the two churches work together on causes. First Congregational member Carol Bradford, attending the supper with partner Glenn Milley, helps at the food bank. It takes many people to make the food bank happen, she and Milley said.

    The supper was the first in a summer series raising funds toward St. Philip’s match of a grant that helped restore its steeple, the oldest in Wiscasset’s skyline. The next supper is bean and casserole; the third and final one features fish chowder and is set for Aug. 14, according to a church announcement. Attendees make donations. The suppers run from 5:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. at the church at 12 Hodge St.