A series of "foodraisers" are being planned by the Hay Creek Valley Historical Association (HCVHA) at Historic Joanna Furnace, Geigertown.

The first event will be a Valentine's Lasagna Dinner on Friday, Feb. 12, which will be held in lieu of the site's annual Valentine's Day breakfast. Dinners will be available for curbside pickup at Joanna Furnace between noon and 6 p.m. that day.

Volunteers are preparing the meal, which will include one half-pound pan of meat lasagna, a salad, bread and two chocolate-covered strawberries. A gluten-free meat lasagna with gluten-free noodles will also be available with no bread. Chocolate-covered strawberries will also be offered, for a set price per pound.

"All the dinners will be sold cold with heating instructions included," noted Mark Zerr, HCVHA executive director. "We are giving you (the lasagna) to heat up. You can take it home and refrigerate it or if you want to, you could freeze it and thaw it and make it another time. We can't sell a hot dinner and have it still be hot when you get home."

The lasagna will be made by HCVHA volunteers in advance. The strawberries will be freshly dipped in chocolate that day. "These are the strawberries we would normally include at our breakfast," said Zerr.

Following the lasagna dinner event, HCVHA will present a fastnacht sale on Tuesday, Feb. 16, from 2 to 5 p.m. Feb. 16 is Fastnacht Day, which is always celebrated on Shrove Tuesday, the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday.

Fastnachts, which are yeast-raised potato pastries, will be sold by the dozen. "We are making them from scratch. They are potato fasnachts," Zerr pointed out.

In March, a sale of shepherd's pie is planned instead of the traditional St. Patrick's Day Irish breakfast.

"Our goal each month is to do a foodraiser right through to July," Zerr said. "Each month, we will offer different things from dinners and soups to pies and a barbecue in July. Once we get to the fall, we are hoping our (annual) festival will return."

Fastnachts, lasagna and strawberries must be preordered by Wednesday, Feb. 10. For more information and to place an order, readers may visit http://www.haycreek.org. More information about the food sales is available by calling 610-286-0388 or searching for "Hay Creek Valley Historical Association" on Facebook.

Historic Joanna Furnace, 1250 Furnace Road, Geigertown, is located just off Route 10, 3 miles north of Morgantown.