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PLYMOUTH
PLYMOUTH

‘Chicken Sunday’

Safety is main ingredient at Rotary

Club Chicken Barbeque this year

The Plymouth Fall Festival returns club. This year, Bunt has overall responsi-
this weekend, Sept. 10, 11 and 12, bring- bility for the barbeque. In the age of
ing many of the traditional events that COVID, that required a lot of extra pre-
attract thousands of people to the com- cautions and some changes in the way
munity each year. things are being done, he explained.
Tickets are already on sale for the tra- “We are really emphasizing all safety
ditional Plymouth Noon Rotary Club and health precautions, even more than
Barbeque Chicken Dinners, a mainstay of usual,” Bunt said.
the club. Bunt was sponsored into the club and
This year, the festival and the bar- mentored by Howard Oldford, one of the
beque will have an added concentration oldest and longest serving members of the chicken 15 minutes after it left the ous posts of responsibility until, after five
on safety and health precautions. Rotary, who had a very proprietary inter- grill and exactly how long each step in years, they take on the responsibility for
Festival President Eric Joy said that est in the barbeque and was there every the preparation took. “He was a legend at the entire project, overseeing every
the civic booths are planning on includ- year, ensuring the success of the event. the barbeque,” Bunt said. aspect of the barbeque, which is a
ing hand sanitizer and the festival com- He was known for his constant analysis of “Howard sponsored me in the club in momentous task by any measure. The
mittee will have hand sanitizing stations the procedures involved in producing 2010 and I think I was the youngest new safety precautions added even more
throughout the festival venue. 11,000 chicken dinners in one afternoon. Rotarian then,” Bunt said. “Howard was responsibility to the task.
“We are keeping a very close eye on “I have participated in the barbeque, my friend and my mentor in so many “This year, for safety, we have cut the
the Delta Variant,” he said. “We want to with Howard, since I was in high school. ways and we developed a life-long friend- number of community volunteers from
be sure everyone is safe.” While I only began working my way ship,” he said. Oldford, the owner of 1,000 to 500. We had to find ways to do
This year, the Rotary chicken bar- through the committee six years ago, I Northville Lumber, mentored and things more efficiently to have more safe-
beque will benefit from the wisdom of have been involved in the barbeque for advised Bunt when he began with Rotary ty controls,” Bunt said. “We will have the
legendary experience brought by one of decades,” Bunt said. He recalled that and eventually became the Rotary Club 100 or so Rotary Club volunteers, along
the youngest-chairman ever. Oldford was constantly striving to Interact President at Salem High School. with some of their family members, all
Brandon Bunt, who joined the improve efficiency of the barbeque oper- Oldford, Bunt said, advised him during aware of the safety procedures,” he said.
Plymouth Rotary Club at 23, is the chair- ations and would constantly collect data, the start of his first landscaping business This year, the club hopes to sell all the
man of the barbeque committee for the demanding to know the temperature of while he was still in high school. After dinners cooked on the huge charcoal bar-
graduation, college and marriage, Bunt beque pits they build Saturday night in
sold his landscaping business and subse- the parking lot behind The Gathering.
quently began a new career as a founding Bunt said the club usually donates a num-
partner of Trilogy Corp. which handles ber of dinners to local charities but this
cleaning and sanitation for large corpora- year will donate to those civic and social
tions. groups in more concrete ways using
“My other mentor was Tim Joy,” Bunt funds from the sale of the dinners.
said, “the owner of Christensen's, another This year, for the first time, the dinner
very successful guy and an active Rotary boxes will also be sealed, adding another
member.” layer of safety, he said.
Bunt doesn't hesitate to credit his busi- Bunt and his wife, along with their 2-
ness success to his mentors along with his year-old son, now live in Milford, but he is
continued dedication to the Rotary Club. still loyal to the Plymouth Noon Rotary
“I often think people may not know all Club. The couple is expecting twins, a boy
the things funded by Rotary in the com- and a girl, two weeks after the barbeque.
munity. We award scholarships to college “Yes, it's a lot of work,” he said, “but
and trade schools and fund so many the best years of my time in Rotary have
social and cultural services,” he said. The been my time on this committee.”
chicken barbeque is the main fundraiser Advance sale dinner tickets are avail-
for the club, Bunt said, and the money able from most Rotary Club members for
The Rotary Club Barbeque Committee includes Chairman Brandon Bunt; Gary Stolz - goes directly back into community servic- $12. Tickets the day of the event are
director of purchasing; Andy Savage - director of tickets; Eric Kostoff - director of oper- es and scholarships. priced at $14. Meals include a half chick-
ations; Danny Hyman - director of volunteers; Jason Zarate - director of operations Each member of the committee works en, roll and butter, corn on the cob, a
support and Kent Early - past chairman and committee advisor. their way progressively through the vari- cookie and a bottle of water.

Joy that he considers his tenure with the Fall
“That was fun,” he said. He added
Festival a success in his life because he
FROM PAGE 1 has left the organization in far better
financial condition than when he took on
watching the Delta variant very closely the leadership of the event. He
to make sure we keep everyone safe.” explained that the city does not pay or
Joy said his one frustration with the fund the Fall Festival. It is an independ-
Fall Festival has been constant every ent operation and has to be self-sustain-
year and will continue to plague ing financially to survive.
whomever volunteers for the job. Joy said he is looking forward, too, to a
“It's the unknown. It's the weather. You little more time with his wife, Dawn, and
have to have such a balance so that all his four children, who range in age from
the booths do well. It can't be too hot, it 13 to 19. The family also has two new
can't be too cold and it just cannot rain or puppies, a pug and a German wirehaired
storm or you're done,” he said. “That is pointer. Joy said his position in the fami-
always the stress of the event,” he said. ly business, Christensen's Plant Center,
Joy said, however, that the most enjoy- in Plymouth, also is keeping him very
able aspect of being the event president busy but said he will remain active with
was the time he spent working with the the Rotary Club.
various charities, clubs and groups who “As I said, it's just time,” Joy conclud- CITY OF ROMULUS - Planning Commission
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