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St. Patrick Church and School in McEwen held their 169th annual two-day Irish Picnic and Homecoming event to raise money for St. Patrick School July 28-29, at the campus picnic grounds. The event featured 18,000 pounds of barbecue pork slow-cooked over hickory bark coals for 24 hours, as well as 2,800 chicken halves. Wayne Hooper and Travis Deal bring more barbecue pork to the selling booth.
Summer fun means tasty barbecue at St. Patrick, St. Lawrence picnics
More than 20,000 pounds of meat were cooked over both picnics