Hugh's Worthless Blog

  Our St. Patrick's Dinner  was very successful and we raised over $10,000 for the Saint Louis chapter of Habitat for Humanity . Now we are hosting an online auction in partnership with other area United Church of Christ congregations to help raise more money for Habitat to provide affordable housing in the area.  One of the items up for auction is a hand crocheted cat Afghan (30" x 64") made by my wife, Penny. She put a lot of hours into making it, so we are hoping it helps raise some much needed funds for Habitat. There are more than 50 other items up for auction, and we will mail them some of them. Hopefully most of the bidders will be in the St. Louis area, but it appears some folks from other locations are bidding on the St. Louis Blues hockey tickets . We will be curious to see how much we can raise. BiddingOwl is a very easy platform to use, and if anybody wants any pointers feel free to ask me about it since I was the person to set ours up and posted all our it

After a three year absence, we are happy to announce the Samuel United Church of Christ St. Patrick's corned beef dinner is back for 2023. We will be having our dinner this year on Saturday, March 4 , from 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm . The menu will consist of premium corned beef from Kern Meat Company, along with assorted side dishes (typically in the past it has been cabbage, potatoes, carrots and Irish soda bread.) The meal also includes beverages and our homemade dessert bar of treats created by friend and members of Samuel UCC .  Neither Samuel UCC or Kern Meat will keep any of the donations, 100% will go to the local St. Louis chapter of Habitat for Humanity to provide affordable homes for local families. Samuel is donating the space, beverages, desserts and labor and Kern Meat is providing the food for the meal and their guidance in preparing the meal to their restaurant level standards. Here is an interesting article from St. Louis Magazine in 2019 about corned beef in St. Louis