St. Mary Lenten fish fries start off with great success

Six hundred pounds of Cod fish sit in three refrigerators waiting to be turned in to delicious beer battered deep fried fish or oven roasted fish.

Submitted by Betty E. Cummings

The first of St. Mary Manchester’s Lenten fish fries is in the books. They sold a record 300 drive thru/take out dinners and 403 dine-in dinners, for a total of 703.

It takes a lot of fish and a lot of volunteers to put on a huge event like a fish fry. The Thursday prep crew keeps busy preparing the lettuce for the salad bar, shredding 150 pounds of cabbage, frosting the cakes, and doing a myriad other jobs to get ready for so many diners.

This week’s fish fry will start at 4:30 pm on Friday, March 15.

Ellen O’Sullivan, Shirley Krzyzaniak, and Pat Fitzgerald prepare lettuce for the salad bar.

Mike Sandoval enjoys preparing the cabbage for shredding.

Dee Dee Sahakian has a sweet job frosting the cakes.

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by Marsha Chartrand

Marsha Johnson Chartrand, a founder, writer, and copy editor with the Manchester Mirror, is a 50-year resident of Manchester. She has a long history of volunteer and community involvement.