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By BOB SCOTT
Rappahannock News C ontributing W riter
There have been many times when the Rappahannock Lions have wondered if there were easier ways to raise the funds that we give to all those community purposes each year. Everything we take on as a fund-raising task has become “labor intensive.” That’s a big city term for a lot of guys working long hours for much less than a minimum wage. (In our case, no wage)
Take the Apple Butter Project. Last Wednesday morning about a third of our membership (mostly Senior Citizens) gathered at George Sharp’s beautiful and abundant orchard to harvest (actually “salvage”), all the apples we would need for our annual apple butter sales during 0c-“ tober. You should have seen those aging Lions, bending over, down on their knees, crawling under the ' loaded apples trees, filling heavy buckets with tree-ripe drop apples and hauling them back and forth to dump into bushel boxes being loaded onto pick-up trucks. In three hours about a dozen Lions gathered 93 bushels. But tjiat was only the beginning.
Thursday morning another team of Lions, a few substitutes tilling in for the ones with “achy breaky” backs, together with three loyal Lionesses, met at J.R. Goolsby’s garage where the apples were washed and cut up. Have you ever tried to cut up a bushel of apples, or two, or three, or more? That’s really “labor intensive.” And who kept all the
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