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The 37th Dożynki Polish Harvest Festival Schedule

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Here is the schedule for our 37th Dożynki Polish Harvest Festival on September 24 and 25.

Please share with and invite your friends and family! It’s one of Corpus Christi’s biggest fundraisers for the year. God bless you.

Saturday, September 24th:
11:30AM Mass in Chapel
12:30PM Festival Opens
Polish Food All Day!
Bar Polish/ American Beer & Wine!
Get your Festival Mug
Basket Raffle, 50/50
5:00PM Mass in Church
DJ Red Spinning Polish Favorites 2PM-9PM
Special Delivery Polka Band 5PM-9PM

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Sunday, September 25th:
11:00AM Harvest Festival Mass inside Church
(Festival Reopens After Mass)
Polish Food All Day!
Bar Polish/ American Beer & Wine!
Get your Festival Mug
12:00PM-3PM BW’s BBQ Chicken Dinner
Purchase of dinner includes admission
3PM 9th Annual
Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Contest
DJ Red Spinning Polish Favorites 2PM-8PM
Special Delivery Polka Band 2:30pm-6:30pm
6PM Theme Basket & Mega Raffle Drawing
9PM Festival Closes

For more information about Dożynki, visit http://dozynki.corpuschristibuffalo.org.

CORPUS CHRISTI CHURCH ANNOUNCES THE 9TH ANNUAL BUFFALO’S BEST PIEROGI CONTEST

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Corpus Christi Church is once again looking for Buffalo’s best pierogi. This historic east side church is hosting its ninth annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi contest on Sunday, September 25, 2016 at 3:00p.m. Its is open to all amateur cooks and businesses.

The contest is the centerpiece of Corpus Christi’s Corpus Christi’s 37th annual Dożynki (pronounced Do-ZHIN-kee) Polish Harvest Festival on Saturday and Sunday, September 24 and 25. Christopher Byrd, the contest organizer, says the event “captures Buffalo’s love for food and while celebrating our city’s rich ethnic heritage with recipes and traditions passed on from one generation to the next. The contest draws people from all of Western New York. Buffalonians have incredible passion for their homemade pierogi.”

If you are interested in entering the contest, follow the link below for more info.

http://dozynki.corpuschristibuffalo.org/buffalos-best-pierogi-contest/

A group of celebrity judges will determine the winners for the contest. Winners in each category will walk away with the title of Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Maker.

Corpus Christi Church was founded in 1898 and is located in the heart of East Buffalo’s Historic Polonia. It is on the state and national lists of historic sites.

For more information about the festival, visit http://dozynki.corpuschristibuffalo.org.

Announcing the 8th Annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Contest

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Corpus Christi Church is once again looking for Buffalo’s best pierogi. This historic east side church is hosting its eighth annual Buffalo’s Best Pierogi contest on Saturday, September 19, 2015 at 4:30p.m. The contest is open to all amateur cooks and businesses.

The contest is the centerpiece of Corpus Christi’s 36th annual Dożynki (pronounced Do-ZHIN-kee) Polish Harvest Festival on Saturday and Sunday, September 19 and 20. Christopher Byrd, the contest organizer, says the event “Captures Buffalo’s love for food and while celebrating our city’s rich ethnic heritage with recipes and traditions passed on from one generation to the next. The contest draws people from all of Western New York. Buffalonians have incredible passion for their pierogi.”

People who wish to enter the contest can online by visiting the church’s website www.CorpusChristiBuffalo.org or by contacting the rectory at (716) 896-1050. The deadline for entries is Monday, September 14, 2015.

Applicants will be judged in one of four following categories:

Homemade Traditional – boiled or fried pierogi filled with cheese, cheese/potato or kapusta (pickled or fresh cabbage) with or without mushrooms, carrots, etc.

Homemade Non-Traditional – open to entrant’s creativity, keeping in mind that a pierog is a stuffed pocket of dough.

Commercial – open to any business using a traditional recipe.

Dessert – pierogi made as a desert open to entrant’s creativity.

To enter the contest, click here—>

A group of celebrity judges will determine the winners for the contest. Winners in each category will walk away with the title of Buffalo’s Best Pierogi Maker.

Corpus Christi Church was founded in 1898 and is located in the heart of East Buffalo’s Historic Polonia. It is on the state and national lists of historic sites.

For more information about the festival, visit http://dozynki.corpuschristibuffalo.org.