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Voting and food go together at local polling places
Staff Writer
chriscam@observer-reporter.com
MCDONALD _ Voters needing additional incentive to go to the polls Election Day could find it at the McDonald Trail Station where six different types of soup, hot dogs, and a variety of baked goods were being sold.
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The day started early for Rich and Carol Moreau who arrived about 6 o’clock to set up for the event. Other volunteers arrived throughout the morning to help staff the building’s historical area and store or sell food in the building that once had once been a bar.
David Nicksic was busy ladling out soup to customers who paid just a few dollars for vegetable, potato, three kinds of chili, stuffed pepper, chicken noodle, and wedding.
Before noon they ran out of wedding soup, their most popular. At a polling place in Burgettstown there was had no wedding soup either. That’s because Jim Reedy had accidentally scorched a big pot of the soup the night before and had to throw it out.
But there was plenty of kohlbassi, sauerkraut, sloppy Joe’s and baked goods that Reedy and other volunteers provided at the Burgettstown Kids Center.
Reedy said it’s incentive to bring people to the polls as well as serving as a fundraiser for the kids center.
The center provides free activities for children during the evenings and on weekends, the most recent being a Halloween party for nearly 200 children.
