The Rotary Club of Chester’s spring event took a new direction this year;  not just serving barbecue, but conducting a barbecue competition.  With five professionals and three amateurs, there was a great selection of barbecue to taste and to judge.  The attendance about 1200, the lines were quite long but kept a steady pace.  Most agreed, the secret is in the sauce.

Winning the People’s Choice award was Sibley’s Bar-B-Que Restaurant & Catering.  They also won in the beef barbecue category.  King’s Korner Restaurant & Catering took top honors for best pork barbecue and F.W. Sullivan’s ranked first in best chicken.  Barbie’s Que-T’s, Matt Hill and family, won top honors for the amateur competition.  Hill said, “I cooked 170 pounds of meat and this  has been a great day for Chester.”