diff --git a/service/src/event/order_events.rs b/service/src/event/order_events.rs
index 84a107c0e..58971b3de 100644
--- a/service/src/event/order_events.rs
+++ b/service/src/event/order_events.rs
@@ -47,25 +47,27 @@ impl OrderEvents {
                 (e.cid(), e.deliverable())
             }));
         let mut deliverable = Vec::with_capacity(candidate_events.len());
-        candidate_events.retain(|(e, h)| {
+        let mut remaining_candidates = Vec::with_capacity(candidate_events.len());
+
+        for (e, h) in candidate_events {
             if e.deliverable() {
-                deliverable.push((e.clone(), h.clone()));
-                false
+                deliverable.push((e, h))
             } else {
-                true
+                remaining_candidates.push((e, h))
             }
-        });
-        if candidate_events.is_empty() {
+        }
+
+        if remaining_candidates.is_empty() {
             return Ok(OrderEvents {
                 deliverable,
-                missing_history: Vec::new(),
+                missing_history: remaining_candidates,
             });
         }
 
-        let mut undelivered_prevs_in_memory = VecDeque::with_capacity(candidate_events.len());
-        let mut missing_history = Vec::with_capacity(candidate_events.len());
+        let mut undelivered_prevs_in_memory = VecDeque::with_capacity(remaining_candidates.len());
+        let mut missing_history = Vec::with_capacity(remaining_candidates.len());
 
-        while let Some((mut event, header)) = candidate_events.pop() {
+        while let Some((mut event, header)) = remaining_candidates.pop() {
             match header.prev() {
                 None => {
                     unreachable!("Init events should have been filtered out since they're always deliverable");
@@ -181,18 +183,30 @@ mod test {
         (after_1, after_2)
     }
 
+    /// Takes the given events from Recon and turns them into two vectors of insertable events.
     async fn get_insertable_events(
         events: &[ReconItem<EventId>],
-    ) -> Vec<(EventInsertable, EventMetadata)> {
-        let mut insertable = Vec::with_capacity(events.len());
+        first_vec_count: usize,
+    ) -> (
+        Vec<(EventInsertable, EventMetadata)>,
+        Vec<(EventInsertable, EventMetadata)>,
+    ) {
+        let mut insertable = Vec::with_capacity(first_vec_count);
+        let mut remaining = Vec::with_capacity(events.len() - first_vec_count);
+        let mut i = 0;
         for event in events {
             let new = CeramicEventService::parse_discovered_event(event)
                 .await
                 .unwrap();
-            insertable.push(new);
+            if i < first_vec_count {
+                insertable.push(new);
+            } else {
+                remaining.push(new)
+            }
+            i += 1
         }
 
-        insertable
+        (insertable, remaining)
     }
 
     #[test(tokio::test)]
@@ -256,14 +270,8 @@ mod test {
         let pool = SqlitePool::connect_in_memory().await.unwrap();
 
         let stream_1 = get_n_events(10).await;
-        let insertable = get_insertable_events(&stream_1).await;
-        let to_insert = insertable
-            .iter()
-            .take(3)
-            .map(|(i, _)| i.clone())
-            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        let mut remaining = insertable.into_iter().skip(3).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(&pool, to_insert.iter())
+        let (to_insert, mut remaining) = get_insertable_events(&stream_1, 3).await;
+        CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(&pool, to_insert.iter().map(|(i, _)| i))
             .await
             .unwrap();
 
@@ -285,17 +293,12 @@ mod test {
         let pool = SqlitePool::connect_in_memory().await.unwrap();
 
         let stream_1 = get_n_events(10).await;
-        let mut insertable = get_insertable_events(&stream_1).await;
-        let to_insert = insertable
-            .iter_mut()
-            .take(3)
-            .map(|(i, _)| {
-                i.set_deliverable(true);
-                i.clone()
-            })
-            .collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        let mut remaining = insertable.into_iter().skip(3).collect::<Vec<_>>();
-        CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(&pool, to_insert.iter())
+        let (mut to_insert, mut remaining) = get_insertable_events(&stream_1, 3).await;
+        for item in to_insert.as_mut_slice() {
+            item.0.set_deliverable(true)
+        }
+
+        CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(&pool, to_insert.iter().map(|(ei, _)| ei))
             .await
             .unwrap();
 
diff --git a/service/src/event/ordering_task.rs b/service/src/event/ordering_task.rs
index fcd40e708..070bf04b9 100644
--- a/service/src/event/ordering_task.rs
+++ b/service/src/event/ordering_task.rs
@@ -628,12 +628,11 @@ mod test {
     }
 
     async fn insert_10_with_9_undelivered(pool: &SqlitePool) {
-        let insertable = get_n_insertable_events(10).await;
-        let mut init = insertable.first().unwrap().to_owned();
+        let mut insertable = get_n_insertable_events(10).await;
+        let mut init = insertable.remove(0);
         init.set_deliverable(true);
-        let undelivered = insertable.into_iter().skip(1).collect::<Vec<_>>();
 
-        let new = CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(pool, undelivered.iter())
+        let new = CeramicOneEvent::insert_many(pool, insertable.iter())
             .await
             .unwrap();
 
diff --git a/store/src/sql/entities/event.rs b/store/src/sql/entities/event.rs
index d65d130eb..7e3ea39af 100644
--- a/store/src/sql/entities/event.rs
+++ b/store/src/sql/entities/event.rs
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@ pub async fn rebuild_car(blocks: Vec<BlockRow>) -> Result<Option<Vec<u8>>> {
     Ok(Some(car))
 }
 
-#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
+#[derive(Debug)]
 /// The type we use to insert events into the database
 pub struct EventInsertable {
     /// The event order key (e.g. EventID)