Breakfast is served
By Barbara Scott
Staff Writer
Everyone knows that “breakfast is the most important meal of the day” but not everyone adheres to this fact. So — on Saturday, Aug. 13, before local families gear up to take in all of the many Caribou Cares About Kids festivities being offered, why not make the first stop on your agenda breakfast — at the Lister/Knowlton VFW Post 9389, on the Van Buren Road.
Serving from 7 to 9 a.m. VFW members will be cooking up a hearty menu which will include baked beans, scrambled eggs, sausage, home fries and pancakes, topped off with coffee and/or orange juice.
The cost for this full menu of breakfast entrees, sure to keep everyone well-fueled at least until lunch time, is $6 per person; $3 for kids 12 and under; and children age 5 or younger eat for free.
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What’s a parade without fire trucks?
Although there were several newer models later in the event, Caribou Firefighter Gregg Belanger had no trouble getting the department’s old engine in gear for the annual Caribou Cares About Kids Parade.
The Caribou Chamber of Commerce and Industry not only organizes the annual Cares About Kids events, employees and volunteers participate in the festivities also.
Last year Cary Medical Center used the Caribou Cares About Kids Parade (and other activities) to stress the importance of healthy babies and children.
Honoring veterans in the area, the Maine Veterans’ Home entry was named Best in Show at the Caribou Cares About Kids Parade last year.
Judged Best Non-Profit unit in the 2010 Caribou Cares About Kids Parade, these members of the Solid Rock Worship Center, carried their music with them as they traveled the parade route.
Nancy Chandler helps this young scientist, Krista McLaughlin connect a battery cable to a Maine potato during last year’s Caribou Cares About Kids events.
Bryant Norskog, 10, along with his grandmother, Barbara Gallagher, were a racing team to be reckoned with during the Xtreme Potato Racing event sponsored by the Caribou Chamber of Commerce. The Xtreme racing car proved to be very successful, winning in both the Hurried Hashbrown and the Wrinkly Russet divisions.
Members of the Grey Memorial United Methodist Church Men’s Group in Caribou were keeping guard over the chicken marinating in a very special and highly secret 60-year-old sauce during the annual chicken barbecue held last year. Always a popular and successful fund-raising event, volunteer church members barbecued 360 chicken halves that were complimented by a number of side dishes. From left are: Bob Black, Dale Sharp, Del Ramey, Neil Genz and Ward Silsby. According to Silsby, each of the other four men are responsible for adding one secret part to the barbecue sauce but he is the only one who knows the entire recipe and adds one final ingedient.
