Chicken Bar B-Q

In 1997, a chicken barbecue was successfully added to the annual Family Fun Day at County Park in September.

In 1998, the chicken barbecue at Fun Day in the Park earned over $7,000.

In 1999, the annual chicken barbecue  continued because it was making money.

In 2002, the Annual Horse Show, Country Fare and Chicken Bar-B-Que was held on the grounds of Linden Hall School.  To promote the chicken barbeque, Rotarian Bill Patrick invited the life-size Kiwanis Chicken to join us during the announcements and required President Gil Lyons to do the "chicken dance" in front of the Club.

In succeeding years, the chicken barbecue was held annually and was very successful.  For example, in 2009, it earned $4,189.

In 2010, fundraising was an obvious priority, and the Club took a chance by prioritizing its efforts and took a chance and canceled the annual chicken BBQ to better focus on the fall F&M Basketball Extravaganza. By concentrating on one fall event, the Club was able to exceed the combined total of those two events in previous years.

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