Pies, pies, and more pies – pecan, apple, chocolate cream, rhubarb, banana cream, blueberry, mincemeat and pumpkin – 100 altogether, were baked and sold by Edgecomb Community Church to benefit community causes. If you missed the popular pre-Thanksgiving Pie Sale, you will have to wait until next year to get in on a good deal, and contribute to some good causes, too!

About four members of the congregation began making pie shells a few weeks ago. On Monday, Nov. 20, two days before the sale, they started adding the fillings and began popping the pies in the ovens. People could order their Thanksgiving pie(s) in advance and many did. The sale officially got underway Wednesday morning, Nov. 20 in the fellowship hall at the rear of the historic church located near the junction of Eddy and Cross Point roads. ECC pies and other baked goods were also sold from 9 to noon at Ames True Value on Route One in Wiscasset.

“We sold about 80 pies, small, medium and large sizes, ranging in price from $6 to $20, which is a bargain by today’s standard,” said Marjorie DiVece, church coordinator and pie sale organizer. Leftover pies were donated to residents of Edgecomb Green. In all, the church raised a little over $900 for the church’s local mission outreach efforts. “We’re very appreciative to the Averill family for once again permitting us to sell pies at their store.”

Women contributing pies for the sale were Marjorie DiVece, Gail Boudin, Carol Colby and Ginny Kroitzch; and neighbor Bob Malone donated three of his special pecan pies.

This year’s sale included a grab bag table to raise money for the Boothbay Harbor Fuel Assistance Fund and a Christmas Basket raffle to raise funds for the church’s local mission outreach endeavors.