By BETH ZUMWALT
Beth Zumwalt/Scott County Manning the bake sale booth for Saturday’s bake sale in order to help raise funds for the Abigail and Autumn Hoots Education Fund were members of the Hoots’ girls Sunday School Class at the Winchester United Methodist Church. Front row, left to right, Lillian Dahl, Chloe Dahl, Paxton Erickson, A. J. Lashmett. Second row, left to right: Colby Pratt, Blaine Vortman, Knox Vortman, Mallory Pratt, Kylie Fearneyhough. Supervisiors were: Kirsten Pratta nd Amanda Vortman.
Several members of the Winchester United Methodist Church Sunday School Program and the United Methodist Men gathered Saturday morning at the corner of Main and Cherry to host a fund-raiser for the Hoots girls. The Sunday School students held a bake sale, while the men sold burgers and hot dogs.
Abigail and Autumn Hoots lived with their father, Jeremy, and attended the UMC regularly.
In August, their father died unexpectedly and the girls went to live with their mother.
“But they still come to Winchester and spend the weekends with their grandmother, Delores Hoots.They still attend our Sunday School,” Robin Lyons, minister of the Winchester UMC, said.
“Everything you see here is donated,” Lyons said. “One hundred percent of the proceeds will go to the girls.”
Lyons said the UMC hosts cookouts several time throughout the year for special causes.
“This is our fourth one this year,” he said. “The money we raise here today, will go to the girls’s educational fund.”
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Dr. Tom Welch keeps a close eye on the hot dogs and burgers on Saturday morning in the lot next to Scottys. The United Methodist Men were hosting a cookout to benefit the Abigail and Autumn Hoots Educational Fund.
