GUILFORD-Broad Brook Grange's annual Sugar on Snow Supper will be held Saturday, Feb. 22, at the Broad Brook Community Center in Guilford. The event is a week earlier than usual because Town Meeting has moved to Saturday, March 1.
The meal includes ham, baked beans, deviled eggs, mashed potatoes, coleslaw, rolls, doughnuts, and Guilford maple sugar on Guilford snow (which is plentiful this year), and pickles.
There will be three seatings, starting earlier than in previous years, to give diners more time at each seating: 4:30, 5:45, and 7 p.m. At each seating, a half-gallon of Guilford maple syrup will be raffled.
This longtime annual fundraiser helps support the many activities of the Grange, which sponsors Pre-Town Meeting, a community Thanksgiving dinner, this supper, and brunches, as well as Guilford Center Stage productions. The Grange organization also provides Christmas stockings for seniors and a college scholarship.
This year's supper is dedicated to the memory of lifelong Guilford resident, Al Franklin, who died in January. He was Master of Broad Brook Grange for years, and he and his family were major producers of the sugar on snow supper, where Al boiled the sugar.
Tickets for the supper are: $15 for adults; $5 for children ages 5–12, and $2 for kids age 4 and under. Reservations for a particular seating are recommended; earlier seatings often sell out. A waiting list will also be kept, and those with reservations who cannot make it are asked to phone in their cancellation. Seats are usually available for the 7 p.m. seating for those who show up without a reservation.
Reservations may be made by the preferred method of e-mailing Thayer at [email protected]; you'll get a confirmation reply. Or you may text to 202-247-5251.
The fully accessible Community Center is at 3940 Guilford Center Rd., four miles west of the Guilford Country Store.
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