Over 600 sausage sandwiches sold at Orange Bunnings on Saturday | Central Western Daily

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Peter Fuge and the crew from the Lions Club sold 624 sausage sandwiches at Bunnings on Saturday. It wasn’t a record – Mr Fuge said it was not unheard of to sell 700 national dishes during a busy 8am to 4pm summer Saturday – but it was nonetheless a pleasing effort, with about $1,200 after costs added to the club’s fund for community projects. Mr Fuge, who takes his sausage sandwich with a smattering of onions and BBQ sauce, has a schedule on Bunnings day: he brings enough stock to the sizzle for the first chunk of the day, then wife Derry ferries the afternoon supplies around lunchtime. However, with stocks running low and a queue of hungry DIY types rejecting the offer of crusts, Mr Fuge was forced to have Mrs Fuge…