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Taking a walk on the sweet side Annual Cookie Walk delights attendees as they stock up for the holidays BY DEB BROBST DBROBST@COLORADOCOMMUNITYMEDIA.COM
The holidays mean cookies — and the annual Cookie Walk at Our Lady of the Pines Catholic Church in Conifer brought out cookie lovers in a big way. Hundreds came to the church on Dec. 11 to make cookie selections from 200 varieties — from simple chocolate chip to beautifully decorated sugar cookies to orange sandwich cookies, walnut butter balls and much more. There were also jams, breads, candy and other goodies. Cookie Walk organizer Nancy Weeks figured about 100 bakers donated 10 dozen of each cookie, some making more than one kind. That’s
More than 200 kinds of cookies sat on tables, waiting to be taken home. PHOTO BY DEB HURLEY BROBST
a lot of cookies in one room at one time. “This is just a fun event,” said Julia Winka of Conifer, who helped start the Cookie Walk in 2004 and has volunteered nearly every year since. “It’s great for community building. It’s also great because it gets more parishioners involved.” Winka said in addition to the event being a local favorite, people come from as far as Castle Rock to select and purchase cookies, and others stop by as they’re on their way to cut Christmas trees. The concept is simple: Customers walk around the tables — hence the name Cookie Walk — and decide which cookies they want. Volunteers wearing holiday aprons, gloves and masks stand behind the tables and place cookies in bags and containers. Each platter of cookies has a list of ingredients. There’s Christmas music playing in the background, and the coffee is free. Attendees
select as many as they want of each cookie, and the cookie selections are weighed. The price is $10 per pound. The Cookie Walk is a fundraiser for the church, and this year the money is going to the church’s youth group trip to World Youth Day in Portugal, according to the Rev. Tim Gaines, the church’s pastor. Gaines, wearing a red sweater, helped fill bags for cookie customers. While Lori McInnes of Indian Hills plans to create plates of cookies as gifts for her neighbors, Angie Wachendorf purchased cookies to provide holiday treats to her five children and her grandchildren who are coming home for the holidays. Attendees were enthusiastic and happy about their cookie experiences. As one attendee put it, “These (cookies) might not make it home.” A volunteer responded: “That’s OK. Tis the season.”
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