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Baking Bread to Raise “Bread”

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March 3, 2010, at 07:00 AM

St. Leo's Knights of Columbus have fun in the kitchen for a good cause. - Shawn Watson

St. Leo's Knights of Columbus have fun in the kitchen for a good cause.

Shawn Watson

Neighborhood Story about St. Leo's Catholic Church Knights of Columbus baking bread to help needy kids.

That's a lot of bread!

Nearly 1,100 loaves of it each Sunday, to be exact. Multiplying loaves to feed the hungry is in keeping with the noblest of Christian traditions, but the Knights of Columbus Council 10965 at St. Leo's Catholic Church at 102nd and Blondo take the idea to almost Biblical proportions.

From mid-January through mid-March each year, the men of the world's largest Catholic fraternal service organization bake bushels of bread to raise bread of another kind - dollars that support a tuition assistance program.

Goodwill donations of the giver's choice have allowed the flour-coated group to raise more than $70,000 over the life of a program begun in 1994.

Don't look for just any run-of-the-mill bread here. These men, never needy when it comes to kneading, specialize in Irish soda bread using a systematic preparation, baking and packaging process that they now have down to a science.

This year's bread chair, Wally Conrad, enjoys the camaraderie with the guys.

“We have fun for a good cause,” he said.

To find out more information about the ISB program of the KOC at SLCC - that's the Irish Soda Bread program of the Knights of Columbus at St Leo's Catholic Church for you acronym-averse readers - contact Fred Otterberg at 397-0407, stop by the church after any Sunday Mass until March 14th, or visit stleo.net.

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Does anyone know what's in the irish soda bread?? I have allergies.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/11 at 01:00 PM

I think it's usually simple stuff -- baking soda, flour, salt, egg. People can add almost anything to it -- dried fruit, spices etc.

Posted by .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address) on 03/12 at 05:10 AM

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