CAROLINA CHILDREN'S HOME

21^st Annual BBQ Cook-Off Festival
Bring Your Best Home
May 16 & 17, 2008

Mark May 16^th and 17^th on your calendar as the tastiest days in Columbia!
 
Join Carolina Children's Home for our 21^st Annual BBQ Cook-off Festival at the SC State Fairgrounds. Presented by Big Pig sponsor AdDrive, this two-day fundraiser pits cookers from all over the state of South Carolina against each other to see who can create the best tasting BBQ. All the proceeds from the event benefit Carolina Children's Home and the many children we serves. Originally founded as an orphanage, the Home is one of the state's largest treatment centers for abused or abandoned young people.

 

7 pm - 10 pm -- Friday Night's SAVE THE PIGS party is an anything put pork event!  For $8 a ticket or 2 for $15, enjoy music and taste-test samples of numerous Southern specialties prepared by the 40+ cooking teams from across the region. Food samples are served as long as the delicious dishes last and the terrific band, the Sensational Epics, will play from 7-10 p.m.  Beer, water and sodas are for sale at the event.

 

11 am - 3 pm -- Saturday's BBQ COOK-OFF 
Join many as all reap the benefits of this year's BBQ champions and more.  Complete with BBQ and savory side items, BBQ plates are $8 at the door or $7 if purchased in advance and kids 11 years of age and younger eat for $3.  Enjoy performances by local children's groups, let the kids enjoy crafts in the Little Piggies area and enjoy savory food for all.  We even have a drive through for those of you who can't stay for the festivities.  And you can purchase BBQ by the pound to go for $8 a pound, too.  It's a day of delicious food and fun for the whole family! 

 

The 2007 BBQ Festival attracted approximately 2,000 guests and raised approximately $65,000 in net proceeds to benefit the hundreds of children and adolescents who enter the Homes doors each year!

 

To become an event sponsor, compete as a cook, purchase advance tickets for either event, or volunteer your time, please call
Carolina Children's Home' s Development Office Staff at 803-782-1421.

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Attention All Interested Cookers!!

We're looking for cooking teams who like to have a great time while raising money for a terrific cause - to help the abused children and adolescents served by Carolina Children's Home.  Join us at the SC State Fairgrounds on May 16 & 17 for a great weekend of fun to help needy children from throughout South Carolina!   For a cooker application please email Director of Development Elizabeth Caulk: ecaulk@carolinachildrenshome.com

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Attention All BBQ JUDGES!!

For a BBQ Judge Application, please email ecaulk@carolinachildrenshome.com

We welcome judges who are certified by the SC BBQ Association (www.scbarbeque.com)!  See the judges application for more details on the BBQ and what we ask of our judges for the 2008 BBQ festival.

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Attention all interested Volunteers!!

The BBQ is the Home's largest event fundraiser that raises awareness for the Home's mission, as well as much need financial support of its programs and services to children who've been the victims of abuse and neglect.  It's now held each year at the SC State Fairgrounds and this year's festivities will be the weekend of May 16 &17, 2008.  Plans include music by the Sensational Epics, entertainment by local children's groups and delicious food on Friday and Saturday!  All should be a memorable weekend that helps the hundreds of children and adolescents who enter the Home's doors each year!

Friday, May 16 - Annual Save the Pigs Party  7 p.m. to 10 p.m.

What can volunteers do?   During shifts of 6:30 - 10:30 p.m.

Serve as a cooking site ambassadors

Direct traffic & parking

Serve drinks

Assist in set up and clean up of event
Help deliver hogs and/or supplies to cooking teams

 Most shifts are 4-hour shifts between the hours of 6:00 - 10:30 p.m. and you get to sample the food for free!

 

Saturday, May 17 - Barbecue Festival 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.

What can volunteers do? During shifts of 10 - 2 p.m. & 12 noon - 4 p.m.

Help set up the event
Serve food and drinks

Collect tickets

Direct traffic & parking

Assist in Kid's area

Help keep the event site clean during the event

Help clean-up after the festival

Or fill in wherever needed!

Shifts are from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. or from Noon to 4 p.m. And, of course, we'll treat all volunteers with a free lunch of delicious BBQ and sides on us!

 

All Interested volunteers should contact
 the Home's development staff at 782-1421!!

We look forward to seeing you in May!!!