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On Feb. 14 Lion Catering,
a student-based business at St. Helens High
School that uses the ProStart™ Hospitality
Program, prepared and served the food for
a large community charity event. This event
was designed to raise money for the Sacagawea
Health Center, located at one of the area's
grade schools and operated by the St. Helens
School District. 
With recent budgetary
cuts and reductions in state funding for
districts, this health center needs to become
self supporting so that it can continue
to serve our community's unmet medical and
dental needs. The goal was to raise between
$40,000 and $100,000. The first part was
a community dinner, followed by an auction,
at which artist designed unique chairs and
other pieces of art were sold. Afterwards
there was a dance. Tickets for the event
were $25 each and 350 tickets were sold.
Lion Catering prepared all the food offsite,
some in advance at the high school and some
the day of the event at a local grade school.
This allowed the students to have experience
working in a commercial kitchen with industrial
equipment, something not possible in our
classroom. All the food was transported
out to the fairgrounds and served buffet
style.
This was, by far, the largest event our
program has done. To make things work well,
we borrowed expertise and equipment from
our district food service program. It was
a great way to show off the skills of our
students to the community. We received many
compliments, and, of course, made enough
profit to completely pay for our end of
the year class field trip, which we will
start planning soon.
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Chris Dahlgren, ProStart™ Teacher
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Dallas, OR - My
name is Brandy Dickerson. I am a junior
at Dallas High School. This is my
second semester in the catering class.
Our class has taken on many different
catering jobs, which include, a formal
baseball dinner, an annual 4-H dinner
and lunch, a local grade school spaghetti
fund raiser dinner for 800 people,
the monthly Christian Woman's meetings
and a dinner for 289 women. We have
done so much.
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I took on a Valentines Day's catering
project. For this project we made chocolate
and white shaped boxes and hearts made
from molds and then filled with Hershey
kisses and dove chocolates. I took on
this job in January thinking it would
be fun and cute, but as of this writing,
I can't look at chocolate in the same
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The chocolate boxes
turned out to be a hit. A big hit!
We bought over 200 pounds of chocolate
to make the molds and we used it all!
Every day for the next month I had
to go to my other classes with chocolate
on my clothes, once it accidentally
got flung in my hair. I had to come
in after school, on weekends, and
in the mornings to get all of the
boxes done on time. But it was worth
it because we ended up making over
$1000 on this event. I think it was
a big success for the first year.
Since I am a junior, I am hoping I
can recover from my chocolate phobia
because, guess who is in charge of
next years hearts?
[March 2003]
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On Saturday and
Sunday January 18th & 19th, the Tillamook
County Schools Hospitality Program
participated in several competitions
at the 2003 Crustacean Classics event
in Lincoln City sponsored
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by the Lincoln
City Visitor's and Convention Bureau
and the Factory Stores in Lincoln
City. Tillamook County students competed
against ProStart™ national high
school culinary champions Taft High
School of Lincoln City in a seafood
chowder cook-off. The Tillamook County
teams won the People's Choice award
and the 2nd place award from the judges
in the chowder contest, bringing home
beautiful engraved silver bowls. Chowder
chefs were Tiffany Prouse and Candra
Moon (both from Tillamook High School)
and Jake Wallberg and Natalie Aufdermauer
(TOPS).
The chowder teams
were coached by Chef Wayne Chinn from
The Hungry Halibut Restaurant in Netarts.
Tillamook County students placed first
and second in the Beverage Server's
race on Saturday afternoon, running
an obstacle course through the crowd
to deliver a full beverage glass to
the judges' table. Jake Wallberg (TOPS)
won the event, with Jennifer Brown
(Neah-Kah-Nie High School) coming
in second. Prizes for this award included
a cash prize and merchandise from
the festival.
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On Sunday
afternoon, Tillamook County students
were awarded all three prizes in the
TableSetting competition sponsored by
Pfaltzgraff and Mikasa factory stores.
The Tillamook County teams combined
dinnerware selected from the stores
with other decorations brought from
home to create two beautiful table displays
with beach and patriotic themes. |
Table
setting activities were coached by Cynthia
Chinn of The Hungry Halibut. Prizes
from this event included Pfaltzgraff
dinnerware and gift certificates to
select other merchandise from Factory
Stores. In addition to the competitions,
Tillamook County students also sold
samples of the award winning seafood
chowders on Saturday and sold whole
cooked crabs and crab dinners on Sunday.
Proceeds from these activities will
be used to purchase new equipment and
uniforms for future competition events.
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Do you want to hear about
the exciting things happening at many of
the ProStart™ Hospitality schools?
Student-run culinary teams and businesses
are teaching your future managers what it
takes to be successful in the challenging
world of foodservice. [Click
here for more student / school profiles
& stories].
It is easy to get involved.
All you need to do is contact Dawn
Tryon, School to Career Director. She
will connect you with qualified students
near you and give you all the information
you need to begin participating.
Dawn Tryon
Oregon Restaurant Education Foundation
8565 SW Salish Lane
Wilsonville OR 97070
800-462-0619
dawn@OREFoundation.org
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