By Bob Obenland
Last year we celebrated the NCC's 15th
Anniversary with a number of activities and prizes for the Member Clubs
with one collector and guest attending the Department 56 Holiday tour.
The final year's activity was to award the prizes for the 15th
Anniversary cake contest. Earlier in the year we wanted to give the
clubs help with meeting refreshments and sent each club $25 for a cake
for one of their meetings. We added the idea of a NCC 15th Anniversary
cake contest with little idea that so many clubs would work so hard on a
cake. A total of 47 clubs sent in pictures of their cakes. It was hard
to pick the winners, but the entry from the Village Collectors of
Michigan came in first with a cake of the NCC Collector's Club House. A
number of clubs used this house on their cake and at first I thought
that was what they did until I saw one of their pictures with half of
the cake missing. Second place went to a joint project by the members of
the cyber club Our 56 Club. There were no calories in their cake. The
Prairie Villagers took third place with a 15-layer cake, one for each
year, with a chocolate covered house on the first layer. We want to
thank all those clubs that entered the contest. You can view all the
cakes by clicking on this link......
CAKES
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 The Village Collectors of Michigan pose with their
prize-winning cake before they get ready to eat the "just desserts" of their labor. Although the cake looked
too good to eat, the club found the NCC Collectors Cake House was as delicious as it looked.
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