“Aw shucks” — Sisters, staff and friends prepare 3,000 ears of corns

The Ursuline Sisters, staff and friends were busy July 31 and Aug. 1, 2023, shucking and cutting 3,000 ears of sweet corn fresh from the farm. The corn is blanched, cut off the cob and frozen so the Sisters and staff can enjoy it year round. Here are some pictures.

Ursuline Associate Tina Wolken, left, works the shucking line with the Ursuline Sisters. Clockwise from left are Sisters Claudia Hayden, Rose Jean Powers, Ann Patrice Cecil and Susanne Bauer.
Food Service staff members Amanda Geary, left, and Charlotte Stelmach, center, enjoy shucking corn with Sister Amelia Stenger.
Sisters and Food Service staff work together to make quite a production line. From left are Sister Cecelia Joseph Olinger, staffer and Associate Wes Wheatley, staff member Devin Gibson, Sister Margaret Ann Aull and Sister Marie Joseph Coomes.
Sister Suzanne Sims, right, is joined by her sister, Teresa “T” Edwards as they cut ears of corn.
Sister Rebecca White, right, talks with Sister Michael Ann Monaghan as they strip their corn.
Sister Ruth Gehres, right, joins the shucking crew as the small dining room fills with Sisters, staff and supporters.
Sister Elaine Burke, left, finds something to laugh about as she and Sister Catherine Barber fill their buckets.
All the corn shucking and cutting was completed on the morning of Aug. 1, but there was plenty of processing to do. Here, Food Service staff Cody Cravens and Charlotte Stelmach cut corn off the cob to prepare for freezing.
Sister Amelia Stenger sits among just a few of the pans of corn she cut off the cob on Aug. 1.
Food Service staff member Amanda Geary works among the corn-ucopia of the kitchen on Aug. 1.
Several members of Sister Suzanne Sims’ family helped out again on Aug. 1, including two brothers and a sister-in-law. From left, Mark Sims, his wife Martha Sims, and Alan Sims cut corn off the cob.
Martha Sims starts cutting her first ear of corn in the kitchen. She and her husband Mark ran the cake booth at the Mount Saint Joseph Picnic for many years.

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  2. Michele Morek

    O Shucks. Send some to Kansas, why don’t you??? I looked at Aldi’s this morning and it is more than a dollar an ear!

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