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Okeechobee Main Street’s 2009 Top of the Lake BBQ Affair was the largest ever with a crowd of over 3,000 enjoying the best in BBQ, pony rides, an assortment of vending selling their wares and some of the finest desserts and treats. We had 42 cook teams competing for the top prize. Winners were: Sauce; Uncle Kenny Butts For You, Apple Pie; Brushfire BBQ, Anything Butt; J-Mack Cookers, Beer Can Chicken; Big Jim Lazy Q, People’s Choice; Uncle Kenny Butts For You. In the Amateur Contest: Grand Champion; Brushfire BBQ and Amateur Reserve Champion: Kahuna-Que. In the Pro Division: Chicken; Home BBQ.Com, Ribs; Squeals on Wheels, Pork; Smokin’ Cracker BBQ Team and Brisket; Swamp Boys. 009 Top of the Lake BBQ Affair Grand Champion and Florida State Champion: Mount Dora Bar-B-Que and Top of the Lake BBQ Reserve Champion was Swamp Boys. Click HERE for a list of all of the winners. Okeechobee Main Street would like to thank its Corporate Sponsors: Aaron’s Sales & Lease, Audibel Hearing Care Center, Big Lake Cancer Center, Cheney Brothers, Inc., Edward Jones Investments, First Bank & Trust of Indiantown, Florida’s Blood Centers, The Law Offices of Hoskins & Turco, P.A., Seacoast National Bank and Syfrett Feed. Thanks also to our BBQ Sponsors: Home Depot, Taylor Rental, Waste Management, FP & L, Maine Grilling Woods, The Golden Corral, Everglades Farm Equipment, Charlie’s Lawn & Landscape, Culpepper & Terpening and Advanced Engraving/The Stitchin’ Post. A special thanks goes to The Penny Saver for their great advertisements leading up to the event. Thank you to our Friday Night Judges: Judge Jerry Bryant, County Commissioners Noel and Mrs. Chandler, Margaret Helton and Cliff Betts, City Council Members Clayton Williams and Mike O’Connor, Greg and Sheryll Thogersen, Diane Spann, Linda Syfrett, Joe Doyle, Mike Felprin and Associated FBA Judges., A “we couldn’t do it without “ special thanks to our Main Street Volunteers who give countless hours of their time to help put on this event: Rick Amiet, Marnie Lauter, Donna Huth, Mike Felprin, Linda & John Woloski, Randall & Renee’ Mims, Wesley Mims, Bridgette & Jim Waldau, Pam Jackson, Linda Syfrett, Sam Harper, Cheryl Daniels, Greg Thogersen, Clyde Price, Bob Branstetter, Maureen and Terry Burroughs and our People’s Choice Coordinator Tabitha Trent and her staff from Riverside National Bank. And a final THANK YOU to the staff of the Okeechobee Agri-Civic Center and the Okeechobee County Sheriff’s Department for all you do in helping with our events. |