TBPW Fall Food Fest 2008 - A success!!

Tomball Business and Professional Women recently completed their 10^thannual Fall Food Fest. The TBPW Fall Food Fest is our yearly fundraiser to raise funds for scholarships and others in need.

I have been involved with the Fall Food Fest since its inception and I think this was probably one of the most successful fundraisers yet. I had some concerns going in to the event. Normally we spend our September meeting going over everything but at the September meeting the majority of our membership was still without power from Hurricane Ike so we didn't even have a September meeting. We had also changed locations this year from the Lone star Tomball College back to what was an original location of Tomball United Methodist Church on Baker Street. With Hurricane Ike it kind of felt like we were throwing it together but with a lot of dedicated members it all came together.

We had eleven restaurants participate with some incredibly yummy food.

Image Catering- A sample of their finger foods

Klein's Super Market- Desserts from their bakery

Mel's Country Cafe- chicken fingers and blueberry cobbler

Easy Made Meals- samples of their meals

Main Street Crossing- Chicken salad and mandarin orange salad

Wings, Pizza and Things - Pizza

Pecos Grill - roast, mashed potatoes with gravy and green beans

Kema Seafood House- Assorted fish

Culinary Events - Samples

Trail Mix Coffee House - Coffee, smoothies and trail mix

Gingerbread House - Cookies and Sandwiches

There was a silent auction with a wonderful assortment of items available for the auction. You can see from all the activity that the silent auction was a popular item at our Fall Food Fest. Our membership really stepped up to the plate finding all these auction items to donate.

There was a raffle with some great raffle items available. We had five raffle items from a 42" flat screen tv, diamond earrings to a smoker. The winners were picked and announced at the event.

Last year we were able to give six $1000 scholarships and we should be able to give close to that many scholarships this year.