Fry volunteer Eric Johnson knows his way around a fish fry.
“I’ve been frying for 15 years,” Johnson said Friday at lunchtime while handling fish orders for a church hall at Holy Family Parish’s St. Irenaeus at Oakmont.
Each week during Lent, dozens of parish volunteers man multiple stations to facilitate the more than 800 fish sandwiches that are sold each Friday.
Friends Nia Lafferty of Freeport traveled to Oakmont for a dine-in lunch visit with Brianna McCaslin of Oakmont.
“These sandwiches are the best,” Lafferty said.
Dishes include haluski, coleslaw, French fries, tuna salad croissants, homemade mac-n-cheese, crabby patty sandwiches and unbreaded gluten-free fish.
The co-organizers of the fish fry are Caryn Cebulak and Barb Moore.
The parish also hosts fish fries every Friday during Lent at St. John the Baptist in Plum, Saint Joseph in Verona and Our Lady of Joy in Plum.
Joyce Hanz is a TribLive reporter covering the Alle-Kiski Valley. A native of Charleston, SC, he graduated from the University of South Carolina. He can be reached at [email protected]
