Busy bakers: Kiwanis booth serves 230,000 fresh baked cookies during Clay County Fair

By Susan Reiser, Tri-State Neighbor Correspondent
Sep 8, 2023
Sep 8, 2023

Fair cookies — Spencer Hy-Noon Kiwanis member and cookie baker Andrew Hasley poses with a bucket of chocolate chip cookies.
Tri-State Neighbor photo by Susan Reiser

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By Susan Reiser, Tri-State Neighbor Correspondent

Remember that childhood nursery rhyme that goes “pat-a-cake, pat-a-cake, baker man. Bake me a cake as fast as you can?”

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