{"id":22207,"date":"2014-10-07T13:48:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-07T17:48:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=22207"},"modified":"2016-01-06T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T14:26:02","slug":"mccs-relief-sale-continues-successful-annual-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/mccs-relief-sale-continues-successful-annual-run\/","title":{"rendered":"MCC&#8217;s relief sale continues successful annual run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">If engaged in a bidding war for a bag of kettle corn at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vareliefsale.com\/VRS-Web\/DesktopDefault.aspx\">Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale<\/a>, Jalyn Sneary knows how high she would go.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">\u201cProbably $10,\u201d the 11-year-old Harrisonburg resident said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">Meanwhile, if it\u2019s Laotian egg rolls on the block, Tanna Meadows, 45, of Elkton, is convinced the outcome has been decided before the first bid is made.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">\u201cI would definitely win,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">While the big auction bucks are spent on quilts inside of the Rockingham County Fairgrounds exhibit hall, relief sale food seems to get everyone reaching for their wallets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">If it\u2019s not kettle corn, Brunswick stew or homemade pies, it\u2019s doughnuts \u2014 about 12,000 are sold a year \u2014 international fare or an all-you-can-eat pancake breakfast that gets dollars exchanging hands.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">And it adds up: The 48th annual sale, held Friday and Saturday, raised more than $340,000 for <a href=\"http:\/\/mcc.org\/\">Mennonite Central Committee<\/a>, which provides natural disaster response, community development and peace work in more than 50 countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">\u201cThey\u2019re really trying to help [people] change their lives, not just imposing their agenda,\u201d said Jerry Holsopple, noting how the committee will buy animals for communities to raise.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">Holsopple, 57, of Harrisonburg, might have been as well traveled as any attendee at this year\u2019s sale, having visited 32 countries. Many times, he produced videos to document relief efforts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">He joined others from the city\u2019s Immanuel Mennonite Church on Saturday to serve 460 tamales, which were on the fast track to being sold out just after noon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">The Laotian offerings, as usual, were also a big hit, led by the egg rolls.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">\u201cThey\u2019re so good,\u201d Meadows said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">With Mennonite relief sales, you never know what you\u2019re going to get.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">Sneary\u2019s mother, Shannon, grew up on one in Kansas, where she took a liking to veranika, a German cottage cheese-filled dumpling treat.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">Others tout the relief sale in Indiana, a larger event that lists a fried dough treat known as Elephant Ears among the food choices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">But there are no losers, especially since you don\u2019t need to bid on the food.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\">\u201cYou see a lot of people from your community, and it\u2019s a great cause as well,\u201d Meadows said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #2c2c2c\"><em>Article courtesy of the Daily News Record, Oct. 5, 2014. Eastern Mennonite University editor&#8217;s note: The chair of the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale is 1999 EMU alumnus Dave Rush. Grounds chair is David Mininger &#8217;74. Dozens of other EMU staff, faculty and alumni volunteered their time to make the sale a success, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/personnel\/people\/show\/holsoppj\">Jerry Holsopple<\/a>, quoted in this article, who is professor in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.emu.edu\/vaca\/\">EMU&#8217;s Visual and Communications Arts Department<\/a>.<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If engaged in a bidding war for a bag of kettle corn at the Virginia Mennonite Relief Sale, Jalyn Sneary knows how high she would go. \u201cProbably $10,\u201d the 11-year-old <a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2014\/mccs-relief-sale-continues-successful-annual-run\/\" target=\"_self\" class=\"more-link\">... read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">about MCC&#8217;s relief sale continues successful annual run<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":22213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5583,5623],"tags":[15129,5944,6012,11947],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-22207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-special-programs","tag-dave-rush","tag-giving","tag-jerry-holsopple","tag-virginia-mennonite-relief-sale"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.6 - 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