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On the website you will find the order form to fill out and submit to the church office. We suggest you place your order early because there is a limit of two bags of pasties / customer and two jars of chutney / customer. A bag of regular pasties (six pasties / bag) costs $26 and a bag of gluten-free pasties (six pasties / bag) costs $28. Halfpint jars of chutney cost $10 / jar. Last year we sold-out of everything, so place your order as soon as possible. Your order will be available for pick-up on October 21st during the St. Bartholomew’s Fall Festival from 9:00 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. at the church. We can accept checks or credit cards as forms of payment. We will also have our Fall Festival on October 21st which will include an extensive food and bake sale, a small boutique of fall (Thanksgiving and Halloween) and Christmas/Winter items for $25 or less, and hot coffee and donuts to snack on in a conversation circle. If you have any questions regarding the order of pasties and chutney or the pick-up date, please contact Carolyn Shirey at c.shirey65@gmail.com or 936-7665637.

Estes Park Jazz Big Band To Present Final Summer Concert

Trivia! It’s Coming August 12th!

A national news network recently reported that Trivia event popularity is skyrocketing. Here’s your chance to experience the fun yourself. Grab five friends to make up a table or join a table and come away with new friends.

The Estes Park Jazz Big Band will present their final summer evening concert featuring three Estes Park vocalists on Wednesday, August 16 starting at 7:00 p.m. The free concert will be held at Performance Park, Estes Park’s beautiful outdoor performance facility located on west Elkhorn Avenue. Audience members are encouraged to bring lawn chairs or blankets.

The concert will be performed, rain or shine.

Chuck Varilek will direct the local jazz band which is in its 32nd year of providing music for Estes Park residents and visitors.

Featured vocalists on this concert will be Jan McCown, Denise Stookesberry and Scott Anderson, all accompanied by the Jazz Big Band.

McCown will be featured on “As Long As I’m

Singing,” Stookesberry will sing “Night And Day,” and Anderson will sing “Midnight, The Stars And You,” the closing song from the movie, “The Shining.”

Clarinetist Jan Scott will be featured on Artie Shaw’s “Begin The Beguine” and Benny Goodman’s “Let’s Dance.”

The Jazz Big Band will also perform several well-known selections including: “My Way,” “Just Friends,” “Peter Gunn Theme” and “In The Mood.”

The Estes Park Jazz Big Band is made up of musicians from Estes Park and surrounding communities. After this concert, the band will go on hiatus until their Christmas concert in December.

For more information about the band or the concert, please contact Chuck Varilek at 970-227-8704.

The Allenspark Community Cupboard Food Bank is hosting a Trivia event in Allenspark as a benefit. There’s still time to polish up your knowledge of Colorado and U. S. history, entertainment, sports (including Colorado sports), and food and drink so you can shine at the competition. It’s table against table ‘til the bitter end when prizes are awarded to the top three tables. Doors open at 3:30 at Hilltop

Guild’s Kelly House at 18720 Highway 7, Allenspark, CO. Games start promptly at 4:00 p.m. Twenty-five dollars (cash or card) gets you in the door to play Trivia and includes snacks and soft drinks. (You are welcome to bring your own adult beverage.) You’ll want to play some of the other games at a buck each, so stuff those purses and pockets with ones. Every cent goes to the Allenspark Food Bank at The Old Gallery for direct purchase of food staples for our neighbors in need. Gifts of nonperishables and cash are also greatly appreciated.

Questions? Call Peggy at 303-7470317 or e-mail Peggy. mauerman@gmail.com

Estes Park Chorale Begins New Season

The Estes Park Chorale, a community chorus now in its 53rd year, will resume rehearsals on Wednesday, September 13th from 7:00 – 8:30 p.m. at the Presbyterian Community Church of the Rockies. New singers are always welcome. No formal audition is required, just a desire to sing and the ability to attend Wednesday rehearsals. This season, in addition to presenting our regular holiday and spring concerts in Estes, we will also be prepar- ing to perform in a special concert at Carnegie Hall in New York with the renowned composer and conductor John Rutter in May 2024.

If you love to sing and would like to find out more about the Chorale, please join us for our first rehearsal. All voice parts are welcome!

More information can be found at www.estesparkchorale.com.