Englewood comes together for mutton supper, supports local family

Story and photos by Esmé Anger, Boone County Journal

A crowd packed the yard outside the Englewood Community Clubhouse for the annual mutton supper, which featured a country store, farmers market and live music from the Hart Creek Ramblers. This year’s supper also featured an auction to support a local family.

Scott Sapp (CQ) announces at the Mutton Supper auction on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, at the Englewood Community Clubhouse in Ashland. The auction was hosted by Triple S Auctions, run by the Sapp family, who are lifelong friends and neighbors of the Barnes family.

The auction helped the family of Tyler Barnes, who died of cancer at the end of June. Proceeds from the auction went toward a college fund for his young son, Lucas Barnes.

Baked goods, toys, decorations, tools and rounds of golf were included in the dozens of items donated by local businesses and community members for the auction.

Tyler Barnes’ wife, Belinda Barnes, said he was a regular attendee of the mutton supper.

“He came to this every year,” Belinda Barnes said.

A quilt is held up to the audience during the Mutton Supper auction on Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025, at the Englewood Community Clubhouse in Ashland. Auction items included baked goods, tools, toys and home decorations.

“He probably would have known everybody here, and he would’ve had to talk to everybody,” she added. “I mean, that’s just how he was.”

The auction was hosted by Triple S Auctions and run by the Sapp family.

“The turnout and the eagerness to bid on things was fantastic,” Creighton Sapp said about the auction, which Belinda Barnes called “very successful.”

From left, Belinda Barnes, Lucas Barnes, and Daniel Drebenstedt pose for a picture on a memorial bench during the Mutton Supper on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Englewood Community Clubhouse in Englewood. Drebenstedt created the bench as a memorial for Tyler Barnes, Belinda Barnes’ late husband and Lucas’ father.

The Englewood Community Club has been hosting the mutton supper since 1938, said club member Deborah Harmon, who grew up participating in the community fox hunt originally held alongside the supper.

From left, Donna Piltoski and Kirsten Tripaldi react to Piltoski’s pie auctioning for $1675 during the Mutton Supper auction on Saturday, Sept. 20 at the Englewood Community Center in Englewood. The homemade chocolate pie was one of several items auctioned off in support of the Barnes family.

“The Barnes family has been instrumental in our area forever,” Harmon said.

A previous fundraiser was held for Tyler Barnes at the clubhouse in June, before his death, and included a raffle and silent auction. The June event’s proceeds went to help support his medical bills and continued treatment.

“We’re just incredibly thankful for this community, the Sapp family for doing the benefit, and the Englewood community for helping with the benefit as well,” Belinda Barnes said. “It’s just completely overwhelming and I feel incredibly blessed.”

The Sapp family are lifelong friends and neighbors of the Barnes family. “So many of us knew Tyler growing up,” Sapp said.

“Englewood is just a blip in between Ashland and Columbia, but the strength within the community is seen every time we do something,” Sapp said. “Tyler was a dad and a husband and … we’re all just happy to help out his family.”