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Desserts available at the fest include baklava, kourembiethes and melomakaronas. Kourembiethes are a wedding cookie and melomakaronas are honey cookies.
Doris Diodorou, Alexandra Stetler and Mary Tsottles, who are members of St. Barbara Philoptochos, help with Yaya's Treasures, which is like a flea market.
Del Webb's Tom and Michelle Bovis reminisce about their travels to Greece while attending the festival. "It's like visiting a memory seeing all the pictures of places we've been," Michelle Bovis says.
Polo Run's Atheena Van Dijk works with Palm Aire's Louis Elias and her husband, Erik Van Dijk, in the kitchen. They arrived at the church at 7 a.m. to start working on the food for the festival.
Desserts come prepackaged in boxes named after the different islands of Greece such as Mykonos and Crete. The Mykonos box has baklava, kourabiedes, melomakarona and koulourakia. The Crete box has double the desserts as Mykonos.
Volunteers and organizers of the Autumn Fall Fest are following social distancing guidelines and wearing masks to ensure people's safety during the event.
Maria Kirlangitis, the vice president of the St. Barbara Philoptochos, and Marilyn Blazakis, the president, look forward to the fellowship of the event as well as raising money for those in need.
