Newport Food Pantry’s 5 Alarm Fire Cookout produces over 300 attendees during inaugural run
Update Sunday Morning. See note at end of story.
Newport Food Pantry’s Katherine Myers said Saturday night that their inaugural launch of 5 Alarm Firehouse Cookoff Saturday was a rousing success with well over 300 attendees. They sampled really great food prepared by firefighters from up and down the coast and even a team from Portland. Each fire department cook team was given the assignment of preparing a cole slaw, a main dish and a dessert.
And the winners are: People’s Choice: Cole Slaw, Rockaway Beach .
Main dish, a tie – Portland and Seal Rock
Dessert, Newport
Judges Choice: Cole Slaw
1st place, Siletz
2nd place, Charleston
3rd place, Siuslaw Valley
Honorable Mention Yachats
Judge’s Choice: Main Dish
1st place, Charleston
2nd place, Yachats
3rd place, Newport
Honorable Mention: Siletz
Judge’s Choice: Dessert
1st place, Portland
2nd place, Siuslaw Valley
3rd place, Charleston
Honorable Mention, Newport
Grand Champion (overall): 1st place, Charleston
2nd place, Siletz
3rd place, Siuslaw Valley
Honorable Mention, Yachats
We apologize for having what were incomplete cook-off results on the webpage this morning. Due to intermittent slow internet service we struggled for nearly two hours Saturday night to get the information up on the website. At around midnight we thought we had finally succeeded. But as it turned out we didn’t. We awoke Sunday morning to voice messages on our phone asking “why only partial results?” We then discovered we had no internet service. Then, about ten minutes later, internet service suddenly reappeared but it was still very slow. A few minutes later it sped back up to what we’re used to, and it’s been fine ever since. Hopefully Charter and all the other internet connectors that Charter feeds into will figure things out.
