Fundraising opportunity for YOUR non-profit!
Photo credit: Joe Shaw
Our 2024 Non-Profit Partners
A big THANK YOU to these amazing local organizations for their help with this year’s Fair!
Children Unlimited offers a variety of programs and services for children from birth to 21 years of age.
Fryeburg Area Interact Club brings together young people ages 12-18 to develop leadership skills while discovering the power of Service Above Self.
Da Capo is a talented group of singers from Mt. Washington Valley led by Mary Bastoni and John Waldie. The group rehearses on Tuesday evenings at our church.
Upper Saco Cultural Alliance promotes healthy living through social gatherings, gaming, good food, skill sharing, arts education, and love of nature. USCA offers bowling, tai chi, crochet, community dinners, live music, and local community news.
Valley Strings is a string orchestra that meets on Monday evenings from 6-7 p.m. at Fryeburg Academy. Members are area students and adults who love to play string music and make it sound beautiful.
The Way Station provides a safe, welcoming, non-judgmental space and supportive services for homeless and housing insecure people in the Mt. Washington Valley.
Fryeburg Fair Booth
Through the years, a group of women organized first as “The Circle,” then later in the 1940s as “The Alliance,” took responsibility for the cleaning and maintenance of the New Church building. Fund-raising to cover those costs was always part of their mission.
In the Fall of 1953, the Alliance, led by president Ola-Mae Wheaton, supplied and managed a food booth at the Western Maine Agricultural Fair, now known simply as “Fryeburg Fair.” The Alliance made a profit of $324 in one week of their first Fair.
Since then, all people within our church, young and old, along with relatives and community friends, have donated their cooking abilities and time so unselfishly that, today, the New Church Booth at “The Fair” is our largest source of income.
Our reputation as “the place to go to get good, home-cooked food,” prepared under clean conditions, necessitates the need for 1,000+ volunteer hours for the nine day period the booth is in operation. Those hours are over and above the time spent in the church kitchen, preparing baked beans, chili, and pies.
Not only does our Fair Booth continue to be a major source of funding for us, but it also serves as the heart of our church every year for a week in October, when we welcome friends - old and new - to enjoy our hospitality, our famous “Fayah Burgahs,” and our commitment to the hard work on which our future depends.