UNION CITY, MI (WTVB) – This is a sweet time of the year for the Union City Rotary Club.
Once again the sap has been collected from the maple trees for the Rotary Club’s annual selling of pure maple syrup.
It’s a Union City tradition that goes back to the early 1950’s.
Ed Delisle from the Rotary Club says they have modernized the process with the construction of a new sap shack.
The sap is collected only during this time of the year. It is then boiled down from a clear liquid to the maple syrup that is so good on pancakes.
Besides the Rotary Club, Delisle says just about everybody in the Union City community gets involved in the project.
He says this years outlook is great especially with recent temperatures that have been below freezing at night and in the 40s during the day.
The money from the sale of the syrup goes back into Union City projects.
