Local Correctional Facility Bakes Pies For Chum’s Rhubarb Festival

SAGINAW, Minn. — A local correctional facility is giving back to the community by baking 1,000 pies over 2 days.

Chum’s annual Rhubarb Festival is just a few days away. And the Northeast Regional Corrections Center helps out every year by making crisps, but this year they were happy to take on a new challenge of baking the signature pies seen at the festival.

And it doesn’t just help Chum, baking the pies provides inmates with new skills to bring with them when they leave the facility.

“That there’s a role that we all play when it comes to community. We all give back; we all help when we can. And even the organization that we are helping out is there to help out people. And to be able to help out such an organization, I think we all feel pretty good about that,” said Nicholas Ledin, cook counselor for NERCC.

Every pie purchased provides one night of shelter to someone experiencing homelessness in Duluth. The Rhubarb Festival is at Stella Maris Academy on Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.