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SUMMARY:Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee BBQ Festival (SCBA)
DESCRIPTION:Important Fundraiser\n\n\n\nThe annual Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee BBQ Festival takes place at the Eastern Carolina Agricultural Fairgrounds. The two-day event features competition-quality barbecue smoked by some of the Southeast's best pitmasters. \n\n\n\nThe BBQ Cook-Off stands as one of the major fundraising opportunities allowing the Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee to continue to provide services to local children. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvents and Competitions\n\n\n\n\nFriday – Anything Butt Contest\, 5:00 – 7:00 pm\n\n\n\nSaturday - BBQ Cook-off\, 11:00 am – 2:00 pm\n\n\n\n\nThe event kicks off on Friday night. In the Anything Butt contest\, teams cook a dish that is not barbecue. Past entries have included wings\, shrimp and grits\, pineapple upside-down cake\, and banana pudding. \n\n\n\n\n\n"They could prepare their favorite dish of anything they wished\, except barbecue\," noted Joey Edwards\, who serves as director of Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee. "They compete in two divisions in this competition: sweet and savory." \n\n\n\nSouth Carolina Barbeque Association (SCBA) judges select winners for each division\, and the festival also includes an SCBA-sanctioned barbecue competition. \n\n\n\n\n\nMembers of the public can sample the barbecue from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. Judges from the SCBA determine who takes home trophies and cash prizes. Trophies and cash prizes are awarded. \n\n\n\n“The Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee BBQ Festival is a South Carolina Barbeque Association-sanctioned event\,” Edwards said. “These people travel from event to event to earn points toward the state championship.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nImportant Info\n\n\n\nYouth Mentors of the Pee Dee invite the public to come out for both days. Festival-goers can purchase wristbands at the gates. They sell for $10 per person and allow wearers to enter and to eat. Palmetto Peddlers is on Hoffmeyer Road near the intersection with Darlington Street. \n\n\n\nChildren 12 and under accompanied by a paying adult get in free. The Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee offer activities like inflatables and face painting for the children. \n\n\n\n\n\nAll proceeds from the event will benefit Youth Mentors of the Pee Dee. \n\n\n\nYouth Mentors of the Pee Dee is a United Way organization with the mission to improve the lives of area youth through mentoring. Youth Mentors help fill the void in a child’s life when one or more of the child’s parents are absent. Volunteers typically spend two or three hours a week with their mentees. \n\n\n\n“We have about 300 clients\,” Edwards said. “We work with children from single-parent homes and pair them with a mentor with similar interest.” \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBest Places to Stay Nearby\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWeather Forecast\n\n\n\nFLORENCE WEATHER
URL:https://destination-bbq.com/event/youth-mentors-of-the-pee-dee-bbq-festival/
LOCATION:Eastern Carolina Agricultural Fairgrounds\, 5226 E Palmetto St\, Florence\, SC\, 29506\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Joey Edwards":MAILTO:pdyouthmentors@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:Come See Me BBQ Cook Off (SCBA)
DESCRIPTION:Delicious Offerings\n\n\n\nThe Come-See-Me Festival is Rock Hill’s annual salute to spring. Each year\, this ten-day festival\, which includes this BBQ cook-off\, brings over 80 events and activities to over 100\,000 attendees. \n\n\n\nLoaded with frogs\, music\, and fun\, the festival brings together friends\, neighbors\, and festival-lovers from all over the United States and the world. \n\n\n\nCome-See-Me is considered the largest\, all-volunteer festival in South Carolina. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nAward-Winning Festival\n\n\n\nAn award-winning festival\, Come-See-Me was named the 2016 South Carolina Event of the Year. It’s also ranked as one of the Southeast Tourism Society’s Top 20 Spring Festivals for more than a decade. \n\n\n\nCome-See-Me debuted in the spring of 1962 as a community project to encourage tourists\, relatives\, and friends to visit Rock Hill during its most beautiful season. What started as a weekend event has grown in popularity and expanded to 10 days. \n\n\n\n\n\nCreated by C.H. “Icky” Albright\, a former Rock Hill Mayor and State Senator\, Come-See-Me also was nurtured by Rock Hill resident and nationally acclaimed illustrator Vernon Grant. \n\n\n\nGrant created Kellogg’s® celebrated gnomes\, Snap\, Crackle\, and Pop®.  He also created the Come-See-Me Festival’s mascot\, Glen the Frog®\, of which Grant designed more than 30 different styles. \n\n\n\nEach year the festival chair selects a new logo and updates its design and colors. \n\n\n\nBe sure to visit the historic\, award-winning Glencairn Garden\, created by Dr. David A. Bigger to experience the beauty and spirit of where the Come-See-Me Festival was born. \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the BBQ\n\n\n\n"The barbecue portion of the event is really set up over two days\," said event organizer Ross Lawson. "Anything But Butts/Moonlight Jazz is on Friday night. The teams make their own samples and are purchased with tickets bought from us for a dollar each." \n\n\n\nFor $1 each\, you may sample Barbeque Cook-Off competitors’ dishes ranging in years past from gumbo to barbeque chicken to desserts. Celebrity judges will sample entries and pick a winner prior to sales to the public. \n\n\n\nVote for your favorite entry to receive the People’s Choice award.  \n\n\n\n\n\n"We have Come See Me affiliated sponsor judges judge their creations. We also tally the tickets at the end of the night as a Peoples Choice Award where the winner gets free registration to next year's event\," Lawson shared. \n\n\n\nThe following day\, the big event takes the stage. \n\n\n\n"As for the actual BBQ cookoff\, the teams are given 3 butts Friday afternoon at 5PM and they cook through the night. Saturday morning we welcome in the SCBA judges to judge the teams BBQ.  \n\n\n\n\n\n"Cash prizes and trophies are awarded. The remaining meat is collected and we sell it by the pound at the Tailgate Party/Fireworks from 3 pm till we run out."  \n\n\n\nPrizes presented at 1 pm on Saturday. \n\n\n\nThis event would not be possible if not for an army of volunteers and the help generous sponsors. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Organizer\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEvent Location\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nBest Places to Stay Nearby\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nWeather Forecast\n\n\n\nROCK HILL WEATHER
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LOCATION:Winthrop Lake\, 162 Eden Terrace\, Rock Hill\, SC\, 29732\, United States
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jim Armour":MAILTO:comeseeme@comporium.net
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