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Canada VFD BBQ to be Saturday
By Lynn Hotaling
If tender pork doused with a fiery vinegar-and-pepper sauce is your idea of good eating, then Canada Fire Department is the place to be this Saturday, Sept. 17, when volunteer firefighters will host their annual barbecue and cakewalk beginning at 5 p.m.
This year’s dinner marks the fund-raiser’s 15th anniversary, and the event gets bigger each year, said Canada Fire Chief Steve Luker.
“We started with one pig 13 years ago, and this year we’re up to eight,” Luker said. “Three years ago we cooked 1,200 pounds and sold out in three hours.”
Firefighters will slow-cook 1,600 pounds of pork this year. They will roast the meat all night long, using a combination of charcoal and hickory wood, Luker said.
Neil Dawson of Tuckasegee will once again direct the cooking and make the sauce; his wife, Peggy, will prepare the hush puppies from an old Dawson family recipe.
Canada’s dinner will feature “whole-hog, hand-chopped, Eastern-style barbecue,” the head cook said, with the sauce patterned after the vinegar-based “down-East” variety.
“We like it hot,” said Dawson, who is carrying on a family tradition by cooking barbecue for a worthy cause.
Saturday’s menu will include pork barbecue, baked beans, coleslaw and hush puppies. Cost will be $6 per plate, with ticket available at the door. Carry-out plates will be available.
Saturday’s event will include live bluegrass and gospel music by local groups and a raffle, Luker said.
Items to be raffled include a Remington rifle, and a handmade maple-leaf quilt, made and donated by Carolina Quilters. Chances on the quilt, which is on display at Livingston’s Photo in Sylva, may be purchased at Livingston’s or from any member of Carolina Quilters or the Canada Fire Department.
Donations of cakes for the cakewalk will be appreciated and can be dropped off at the fire house any time during the day on Saturday.
Proceeds from the event will be used to purchase additional equipment for the department, including a new rescue-pumper that should arrive next month.
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