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Cheques and balances
May. 12th, 2008 08:56 amSaturday I went to the Church supper that my Dad's church threw on. They're raising money to pay for the new church roof (Total cost, $180,000, before this weekend they'd raised $120,000 and taken a loan for the rest. The new roof looks great, it's steel with a foam insulating backing which should also keep the heating costs down.)
Roast beef dinners are a tradition with the United Church of Canada. Every congregation does this it seems at least once if not twice a year. I think they use the same recipe book for the cole slaw - not the creamy KFC type, but a lighter version.
They must have had about 80 people there, if not more. Dad sold a block of 14 tickets - him, me, his girlfriend Margaret, and the rest to his and Margaret's friends from the Among Friends grief counseling group they went to after their spouses passed away (everyone liked each other so much, after the sessions ended they decided to keep getting together every Monday night at a Williams Coffee Pub and at least once a month at a local Chinese buffet restaurant.)
While I was there, Dad had one of the Centennial Albert UC congregation give him a cheque for the Waterloo Regional Dream Centre, as I'm going there for two days this week to work on their books.
"Can you give this to them?" Dad asks.
"Yes," I reply, "but it needs a payee -"
"You can write that on yourself."
"- and a signature." She'd only written the amount on it, hadn't even signed it. It quickly got returned to the embarrassed donor to make good the deficiencies. ^_^
I'm glad I looked at that cheque before I accepted it!!
Roast beef dinners are a tradition with the United Church of Canada. Every congregation does this it seems at least once if not twice a year. I think they use the same recipe book for the cole slaw - not the creamy KFC type, but a lighter version.
They must have had about 80 people there, if not more. Dad sold a block of 14 tickets - him, me, his girlfriend Margaret, and the rest to his and Margaret's friends from the Among Friends grief counseling group they went to after their spouses passed away (everyone liked each other so much, after the sessions ended they decided to keep getting together every Monday night at a Williams Coffee Pub and at least once a month at a local Chinese buffet restaurant.)
While I was there, Dad had one of the Centennial Albert UC congregation give him a cheque for the Waterloo Regional Dream Centre, as I'm going there for two days this week to work on their books.
"Can you give this to them?" Dad asks.
"Yes," I reply, "but it needs a payee -"
"You can write that on yourself."
"- and a signature." She'd only written the amount on it, hadn't even signed it. It quickly got returned to the embarrassed donor to make good the deficiencies. ^_^
I'm glad I looked at that cheque before I accepted it!!