A volunteer adds potato filling to a varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. The varenyky are sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Olha Kushnir, 7, of Chicago picks up dough that her dad Fr. Volodymyr , a pastor at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago, cut out to make pierogi to sell as a fundraiser for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Adam Yurkiw of Riverside adds flour to the dough to make pierogi at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
A volunteer adds potato filling to a varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. The varenyky are sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Olha Kushnir, 7, of Chicago brings dough to volunteers making varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. The varenyky are sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Galina Maslova (left) of Elmwood Park, Galina Bidyuc (center) of Chicago and Ewanka Kocur of Harwood Heights make pierogi at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Eleanor Goeters (right) of Chicago and Ewanka Kocur of Harwood Heights fill pierogi with potato filling at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Olha Kushnir, 7, of Chicago delivers dough for pierogis to Stefania Zaobiedny (left) of Des Plaines, Galina Maslova of Elmwood Park and Galina Bidyuc (right) of Chicago at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. Volunteers make pierogi, or varenyky in Ukrainian, to sell to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Adam Yurkiw of Riverside pulls flattened dough out of a machine with Irene Zaobidny of Chicago to make pierogi at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Olha Kushnir, 7, of Chicago picks up dough that her dad Fr. Volodymyr , a pastor at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago, cut out to make pierogi to sell as a fundraiser for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Olga Kozak (left) of Chicago and Barbara Gawaluck of Chicago make varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Adam Yurkiw of Riverside puts dough into a machine with Irene Zaobidny of Chicago to make pierogi at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
A volunteer adds potato filling to a varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. The varenyky are sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Oksana Tsios of Riverside pulls out pierogi after boiling them at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago. The pierogi are then cooled and frozen before being sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
Varenyky, a Ukrainian pierogi, which are made by volunteers at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago each week. The varenyky are sold to raise money for the church. | Ryan Pagelow~Sun-Times Media
A dozen or so volunteers at St. Joseph the Betrothed Ukrainian Catholic Church in Chicago sit down together in the basement kitchen on Wednesdays to make about 1,000 pierogies, called varenyky in Ukrainian. Pierogi sales over the years have helped pay for a new roof …