Castle Country Radio is thrilled to host their Annual Pie Auction on Wednesday, June 15 beginning at 9:00 am on Kickin’ Country FM 98.3 and 106.7. This event started over 10 years ago and the money raised during this event will stay local to help those fighting cancer in our area.

Ann Anderson, Office Manager spoke about the event, “So at nine o’clock we kick off with the first pie and we go all the way until all 50 pies are sold to the bidders, the highest bidders. These pies are donated by just regular mom and pop, they are donated by businesses, political people, it doesn’t matter. We have a wide assortment of flavors of pies and we also have really great that local businesses have donated merchandise to put with these pies.” Pies are bundled along with items such as concert tickets, Seven Peaks Waterpark tickets, gift certificates for restaurants and gift baskets. The area merchants really stepped up every year by making donations to the annual event.

Proceeds from the event are allocated three ways but most people only know of the Fuel Card program, which Anderson explained further, “What we do is, the money that we raise on the pie auction that money goes into $100 fuel cards. Those fuel cards go to residents of Carbon, Emery and Grand counties who have to travel for doctor appointments, chemo, radiation, follow-ups, anything like that. Unfortunately, some of them have to travel outside of the area for these appointments. The expense of going through cancer treatments is already extreme, if we can do our part to help, we want to do that.” The Pie Auction not only funds the Fuel Card program but also donates to the Carbon/Emery Relay for Life events to help fight cancer and to the Thomas B Anderson college scholarship, which is a $2500 scholarship that is awarded to a student of either Carbon, Emery or Grand counties that has or had cancer to further their education.

Since 2011, Community Develop Corporation has donated over $39,00 in the form of fuel cards. “If someone is out there and they’re needing some help with traveling expenses they just give me a call here at the radio stations 637-1167. I do the fuel cards once a week and get them sent out. People are eligible for them once a year and we run it by fiscal year, so it goes from July 1 through the end of June. It doesn’t matter your financial situation, it doesn’t’ matter any of that circumstances, you just need to be a resident of Carbon, Emery or Grand county and you call me and we get your situated for a fuel card and I send it out to you and hopefully it will help you out,” stated Anderson. Fuel cards are issued on Wednesdays and individuals can plan on answering just a few general questions about their treatment for the program’s records.

Anderson finished by saying, “We’re just the voice of the community, it’s the community that donates all this. The pies, they pay for the pies, so it’s their money that they are donating to this. We’re just the radio waves to open up for it. So it’s our great community that we live in that’s giving back to those that are in need. It’s a fun day, it’s a great cause, so everyone tune in to Kickin’ Country, locally that’s 98.3 or 106.7 and I know in Green River 101.1.”

All pies that are purchased from the auction can be a counted towards a tax deduction for their 2016 income taxes.