Elberta sausage fest
The funds help the department purchase new equipment and keep the fire trucks maintained. Gamache said the department sells about 6,000 pounds of sausage at each festival and they’re usually sold out by mid-afternoon. The festival celebrates the coastal Alabama community’s heritage as it was founded by German businessmen from Chicago in 1903 and then settled by German immigrants. The festival had its start in 1978, and the closely guarded recipe for the sausage is credited to Alfred Stucki, who managed Elberta’s Locker Plant from 1953 until his death in 1973. I don’t know where it would’ve come from, but we’re proud to have it.
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So, we are well known but as far as the cartoon goes I’m really at a loss for words. There’s actually people who come from Germany and England in October every year to come visit us and get some sausage. “There’s people that come from all over the country to see us during the festival. Since the festival serves as the department’s main fundraiser on the last Saturday of March and October, Gamache said he welcomed the extra attention. One of the firefighter’s wives found the paper this morning and made it pretty famous.” “No one that I know has talked to anybody. “This is an absolute first to us,” he said.
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Young is the son of the late Chic Young, who created the comic strip that was first published in 1930. “It’s just kind of neat to see.”Īsk if he knew how Blondie cartoonist John Marshall or scripter Dean Young knew about the event, Gamache said he had no idea. “Someone had Facebooked us this morning and since then Facebook has been blowing up,” Fire Chief Scott Gamache told AL.com Tuesday afternoon.
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Touted on as reaching an estimated 280 million people daily in over 2,000 newspapers and being translated into 35 different languages in 55 countries, the July 14 comic strip was quite an attention-grabber for the Elberta Volunteer Fire Department fundraiser that draws between 35,000 to 50,000 people to south Alabama twice a year.