Rotary Roasters at Sweetwater Festival

In an effort to increase the awareness of our local Rotary club, the decision was made to participate in our community’s Sweetwater Festival’s Barbecue Cook Off.  The Rotary Club of Milledgeville formed an awesome cooking team for the second year in a row.  The team set up a tent with our Rotary Club banner, three grills, a camper, tables and chairs.  The team entered a whole hog entry, pork shoulder entry, ribs entry, dessert entry and Brunswick stew entry.  The team began cooking on Friday throughout the night, and finished on Saturday morning.  Judging began at 10:00 a.m. on Saturday morning.  Friday night we invited Rotarians, their families and friends to come and enjoy championship BBQ.  After judging on Saturday, our club invited Rotarians, their families and friends to join Rotary members for lunch.   

Rotarians’ spouses, children, and friends all came out to help with the cooking and serving.

There will always be a need to better communicate to others the mission of Rotary.  This project provided us an excellent way to get our name before a large group of people and also to provide great fellowship within our club. 

The Rotary Roasters won 3rd place in whole hog and was named “Grand Champion Team Local”.