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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. 16, when volunteer firefighters will host their annual barbecue and cakewalk beginning at 5 p.m.
This year’s dinner marks the fund-raiser’s 16th anniversary, and the event gets bigger each year, said Canada Fire Chief Steve Luker.
“We started with one pig 16 years ago, and this year we’re up to nine,” Luker said. “Three years ago we cooked 1,200 pounds and sold out in three hours.”
Firefighters 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.
Saturday’s menu will include pork barbecue, baked beans, coleslaw and hush puppies. Cost will be $6 per plate, with tickets available at the door. Carry-out dinners will be available.
Saturday’s event will include live bluegrass and gospel music provided by local groups. Any performers interested in helping out are asked to call Luker at 293-3686.
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 equip the department’s new rescue-pumper, Luker said.
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