Thank you so much for coming and for your comments. I can guarantee that they will be taken in the constructive manner that you presented them.

Sincerely, thank you.

(and I did eat way, way, way too much pie – all of it was very good!)

Perhaps you might consider these suggestions next time:
1) Have some kind of mesh cover for the pies that were waiting to be tested so the flies would not be on them most of the time before anyone got to eat them. That was a real turnoff for us.
2) Have the contestants make two (2) pies. One to be judged and one to be sold per slice. PACEM (or anyone that would benefit from the event) probably could have made much more money if the raffle tickets were not the only thing being sold.
3) We thought that we would be trying different types of pies and instead just stood around for hours watching you all and the flies chowing down on the pies. To wait hours for the pies to finally be passed out was really a bit much. By that time, the pies had been sitting out for hours and had been picked over by the judges and the flies. (We left after two hours of watching you eat.)
4) Also, when we watched the man with the long beard walk away with his lemon meringue pie (not covered) we thought “now how is he going to take that home, it was not in any type of container”.
5) The music was good, crowd was a good size, but we came for some PIE! LOL

Hope you take this in the spirit it was intended…..not criticisms but observations by your fellow town folk.
Best,
BarBara