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Thrill of the grill

Rotary Barbeque committee works all year on Sunday event

Preparing 10,000 chicken dinners in Savage, in his seventh year as a
one afternoon is not an easy task. It ” member of the barbeque committee,
takes more than 700 volunteers, along has worked his way through every step
with Rotary Club members and fami- We really couldn't in the intense year-long planning and
lies, to prepare the dinners which are do this without preparation for the once-a-year event.
a decades-old Sunday tradition during Committee members who plan and
the Fall Festival. the volunteers. manage the massive event include Eric
Those volunteers, many from the Joy who handles the purchasing of all
local Plymouth Canton Community the necessary supplies for the barbe-
Schools athletic teams, clubs, bands cue. That, Savage said, is a huge and
and other groups, are an integral part them,” Savage said. “They come from complicated job. Bari Livsey oversees
of the complicated process in produc- the marching band, the athletic teams, “all things tickets” this year while
ing the meals, explained 2023 our Rotary Interact Club. We really Doug Willett has taken on the compli-
Barbeque Chairman Andy Savage. couldn't do this without the volun-
“We just couldn't do it without teers.” See Committee, page 4