Food, fun served up at festival

KIRKLAND - Fern Meyer handled a rubber spatula and stirred gravy in a tall pot, while Donna Turner dropped in handfuls of sausage. "We're a farming community," Turner said. "You gotta have plenty of sausage." The two women were among more than 20 volunteers helping cook, serve and clean up Saturday morning at the United Methodist Church's Fall Festival Community Breakfast. Turner said she expected to use about 70 pounds of sausage. The breakfast, which is part of Kirkland's Fall Festival, was the first event of the day-long community celebration at Franklin Township Park. The festival included a car show, story telling and pork chops and sweet corn cooked by the Kirkland Lions Club. The church is across the street from the park and early-b