SULTAN — Sultan Food Bank secretary Marilyn Komnick could smell them the minute she walked in the doors to Gold Bar Elementary School — scores of freshly baked pumpkin pies.
In fact, there were more pies than there were fourth-graders who made them from scratch.
Nikki Taylor’s fourth-grade class at Gold Bar Elementary took over the school kitchen Wednesday, baking 138 pumpkin pies for the Sultan Food Bank.
Komnick, who visited the school to watch the pie making, called it "an incredible sight."
"One of the kids was telling me his friend was so excited he couldn’t sleep last night," Komnick said.
After sampling a few of the pies, and auctioning off a few more, the children delivered 100 of the pies to the Sultan Food Bank on First Street.
About 12 students stayed around to distribute the pies to food bank clients so people could have them for Thanksgiving.
Thanks are only part of the lesson for today’s holiday, Komnick said, adding that giving is the rest.
"I think this will be a lesson they remember for a long, long time," she said of the students. "To be able to give to people and to share in the tradition of the holiday."
Reporter Jennifer Warnick: 425-339-3429 or jwarnick@heraldnet.com.
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