V
ickie Vogt can make most any recipe for 200 people. It’s just the way she was raised. “They’ll say, ‘How do I make it for two?,’” Vickie says, laughing. “I’ll say, ‘I don’t know.” Cooking is in her blood. Many of her recipes were passed on from her grandfather, a military cook in the Korean War. And for 54 years, she’s worked at her family’s food stand at the Minnesota State Fair – which she now owns. That all comes in handy on a Tuesday night in New London, cooking up tater tot hotdish soup for up to 200 people as part of Tuesday’s Table, a community meal hosted by New London and Spicer churches.
“I don’t know, I got it initiated in my blood early in life to volunteer to do things.” – Vickie Vogt
VICKIE VOGT TALKS AT THE LINK IN NEW LONDON AS SHE EXPLAINS THE PROCESS PEOPLE GO THROUGH WHEN THEY COME TO THE PANTRY TO RECEIVE FOOD AND OTHER HOUSEHOLD ITEMS.
The meal seems daunting. But it’s a volunteer affair, one of several she juggles each week. She’s the president of the New London Lions Club and volunteers at the New London Food Pantry. She even mans the scoreboard at New London-Spicer High School girls’ basketball games. Vickie, 64, is one of 1,560,667 Minnesotans who volunteered in 2015, contributing a combined 155.41 million service hours, according to data from the Corporation for National and Community Service, a federal volunteer agency.
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