An area favorite fundraiser is back.
“I can’t tell you how many emails I’ve gotten from people who said they’ve missed it,” said Rabbi David Sirull of Adas Yeshurun Synagogue on Johns Road, about the annual corned beef sandwich fundraiser scheduled for March 13-14.
This will be the ninth year for the fundraiser, which features a New York kosher corned beef sandwich, chips, pickle, soft drink and black and white cookie.
The 2020 corned beef event came in just before COVID-19 shut everything down, and last year’s event was canceled.
“This used to be a dine-in/drive-through event,” said Sirull.
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This year, it will be strictly delivery and drive-through, but after nine years, the volunteers have it down to a science, he said, keeping traffic running smoothly through the synagogue’s Johns Road parking lot.
The fundraiser is patterned off another successful corned beef event in Valdosta.
Many members participate in the fundraiser from slicing the corned beef, to making the sandwiches, to packing pickles into individual bags, to unloading the trucks when the food is delivered to making deliveries of the meals.
“It’s a beautiful thing to have so many people come to participate,” he said.
Not only does it bring the members together, but he said it brings the community together as well.
The cost for the meal is $17. Some of the proceeds will benefit Forces United and the Shepheard Community Blood Center’s Blood Mobile will be on site Sunday.
Orders may be placed online at cornedbeefaugusta.com and may be picked up from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Sunday at Adas Yeshurun Synagogue or Cucina 503, 503 Furys Ferry Road, Martinez, or from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday at the synagogue only. Orders of 10 or more will be delivered from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the managing editor of The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com
