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Volume 7, Number 12 12 Pagfea 20 Centa Vanceboro, North Carolina Phone 244-0780 March 22 - 28. IBsT
Little Swift Creek V olunteerFire Dept Barbeque
Pot Cooking: Sauce For Barbequed Chickens. Bill Stilley is
the Chief Sauce Cooker.
It takes many trips to the coal bed to keep all the pots cooking:
at a barbeque like Little Swift Creek's Affair last weekend.
f isy hands make up plates of barbequed chicken for
ung:ry customers.
A bright sun slowly replaced
a full moon just a little after
6:00 A. M. Saturday morning
(March 17) as long time
community leader and
LSCVFD member, Bill Stilley
of Askins, was mixing his
famous chicken barbeque
sauce in which he par-boils the
chickens before they are
placed on one of the nine
portable cookers already in
place at the LSCVFD Askins
Station to be barbequed under
the watchful eyes of Bill's
experienced “Assistant Cooks”
Gardner Robinson, Chief
Gilbert A. Whitford, III,
Robert Toler, Donald
Belangia, Larry Flynn,
Jimmie Whitford, Steve
Nelson, and Keul Whitford.
McRay Whitford and Jimmy
Fulcher cooked the green
beans in an open pot with just
the right number of ham
hocks. Others, including
Brenda Whitford, Leslie
Ipock, Essie Mae Whitford,
Pete and Bunny Schramm, Pat
Weiss, Andy Franklin,
Douglas Whitford, President
Buddy Whitford and others
prepared and served or
delivered over 1200 plates of
savory chicken, green beans,
potato salad and rolls to
LSCVFD friends, neighbors,
and supporters, not only from
the LSCVFD District, but
from the town of Vanceboro
and throughout Western
Craven County.
Department members and
the people they serve in the
Little Swift Creek Fire
District join together in saying
“thank you kindly” to all who
contributed to making this
fund raising event a great
success. These monies will be
used exclusively to help
purchase a new fire truck to
provide additional fire
protection, with shorter
response time, to the people of
the LSCVFD District and to
their good friends in the
Vanceboro, Tri-Community,
and other Craven County fire
fighting districts when called
upon to assist their own fine
fire fighting units.
(Continued on page 2)
It was worth wai^p: to get to sit down and enjoy a good'
dinner. “Hey, when^re you going to have another one of
these big cook-outs?”
Customers lined up early to get a plate of barbequed
chicken. They didn't seem to mind the short delay.
A tasty looking display~This was part of the 1200 plates sold
for the LSCVFD's barbeque. Photos by George Dimick