The Village Green Foundation’s Pie in the Park on Aug. 25 raised $12,278.86, Nancy J. Martin reports.

Here is the breakdown: Pie auction, $6,560; anonymous matching donation, $4,000; Jerry Kirschner and Nancy Langwith, matching donation of $1,345; and donation jars, $353.86.

Some highlights: Kingston Rotary Club President Clint Boxman auctioned more than 60 pies at the third-annual fundraiser. County Commissioner Rob Gelder helped auction off a pair of pajamas that sold for $40.

Peter Raffa bid energetically to take home a $90 pecan pie. Raffa is a Bainbridge Island resident and executive director of the Kitsap Regional Library Foundation. Miss Kingston Jordan Nicole Wall helped facilitate the auction by showing pies and ensuring the right bidder took home the right pie.

Gelder and Kingston businessman Dave Wetter were the top two bidders in the opening bid. For $800, Wetter earned the right to pick the first two pies out of the entire stock. Gelder was second place with a bid of $600, giving him the right to pick pies 3 and 4. All remaining pies were auctioned off individually.

In the previous two years, then-Commissioner Steve Bauer would spar with Wetter for the opening bid, so it seems as if Gelder is picking up the tradition. Wetter is also vice president of the Village Green Foundation.