OWASCO - At precisely 1 p.m., the alarm over the Owasco Fire Department, Station 1, blared out through the sunny Fourth of July sky, not for an emergency call, but to announce the official start of the annual Owasco Fire Department Field Day.
The event has been a summer tradition in the area for the last 40 years, but was put on hold last year due to a low number of volunteers.
This year the summer celebration came back strong with the smell of barbecued chicken wafting through the air all around the firehouse.
The barbecue has become a fixture of the field day, and certainly one of its biggest attractions, as people were lined up as early as 11 a.m. and the line stretching out onto Route 38A and wrapping around the building.
Andrea Price, of Auburn, was among those waiting to partake in the feast.
"This is a Fourth of July tradition," said Price, who brought along her son, Chris, 12.
"We come here to see the parade and everything every year. We've been coming here since he was really little. But the chicken barbecue is always great."
Members of the fire department, like Angelo Messina and Mike Nye, were working in the kitchen, preparing things like beans and potatoes as well as some of the to-go orders of barbecue.
About 3,000 chicken halves were cooked, along with 180 pounds of baked beans, 500 pounds of potatoes and 30 pounds of bacon.
And by the end of the day there wouldn't be anything left.
Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Citizen.
The event has been a summer tradition in the area for the last 40 years, but was put on hold last year due to a low number of volunteers.
This year the summer celebration came back strong with the smell of barbecued chicken wafting through the air all around the firehouse.
The barbecue has become a fixture of the field day, and certainly one of its biggest attractions, as people were lined up as early as 11 a.m. and the line stretching out onto Route 38A and wrapping around the building.
Andrea Price, of Auburn, was among those waiting to partake in the feast.
"This is a Fourth of July tradition," said Price, who brought along her son, Chris, 12.
"We come here to see the parade and everything every year. We've been coming here since he was really little. But the chicken barbecue is always great."
Members of the fire department, like Angelo Messina and Mike Nye, were working in the kitchen, preparing things like beans and potatoes as well as some of the to-go orders of barbecue.
About 3,000 chicken halves were cooked, along with 180 pounds of baked beans, 500 pounds of potatoes and 30 pounds of bacon.
And by the end of the day there wouldn't be anything left.
Read the full report in Saturday's edition of The Citizen.
The Citizens' Say
There are 1 comment(s)
blueyankee443 wrote on Jul 4, 2008 10:01 PM:
though in an opinion,who really wants to stand in a line,which circles a buil
ding and which also stretches into and
down the road.Why not wait until the li
ne shortens.(cant be too hungry if you
want to wait a long time in a line)Its
said that money is scarce,so where do a
ll these people get their money.Certain
ly not the poor people.(I forgot,the ri
ch of Owasco,and of course those on Wel
fare,have no problem with the expense)
Food is to cost so much,how is it cheap
er to go to Barbacue,than eating at hom
e? "