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Food for thought

Chicken Sunday inspires young author

Even adults are impressed with the Scarlett wrote and illustrated a
effort it takes to cook 10,000 chicken three-page booklet about the barbecue
dinners in one afternoon, but the Fall which was then bound into a keepsake.
Festival Rotary Chicken Barbeque last In the pages, the young author detailed
year left one 7-year-old awestruck. the excitement and fun at the barbecue
Scarlett Powers, now 8, went to the and how much she enjoyed the “deli- Scarlett Powers
barbeque for the first time with her cious” chicken. Powers said. The mother of three
mother, Candace, a Noon Rotary Club She will absolutely be back for daughters, now 10, 8 and 6, she is
member who was volunteering at the chicken during the Fall Festival this employed with Lake Credit Union on
event. After seeing her mother and the year, although her mother said she isn't Ann Arbor Road.
hundreds of other volunteers in action, sure she will be able to volunteer due “They are all looking forward to the
Scarlett knew she had her topic for a to a scheduling issue. chicken dinners,” she said. “Especially
homework assignment at her second- “I've been a Rotary Club member Scarlett.” No word on whether there
grade class at Farrand Elementary for about 5 years, but we moved to will be a sequel to Scarlett's first liter-
School. Plymouth about a year ago,” Candace ary effort.