2nd Annual Wild West BBQ Bash

June 25 - 26, 2010

Santa Maria, California

The Family Care Network is a private, non-profit children and families services provider.  Established in 1987 for the purpose of creating family-based treatment programs as an alternative to group home or institutional care for children and youth, the agency now operates multiple, accredited programs designed to strengthen and preserve families and individuals.  The agency has grown to serve over 2,000 foster and high-needs children, youth and families annually in San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties.  The 2nd Annual Wild West BBQ Bash helped raise money for this worthy cause.

Ted and Ardith were unable to attend this event as Ted had his 50th class reunion in Ohio on this same weekend.  The rest of the team, consisting of Steve, Ron, and Toni, did exceptionally well at this event.  The weather was a little chilly for being late in June.  They followed each other over to the park and set up the BBQ site.  Other family members attending were brother Art and his wife Joanne Madaule from Ventura, Ted and Ardith’s daughter, Annette, and granddaughters, Taylor and Jordyn, who live in Santa Maria.

The next days results showed all of the time, effort, and hard work paid off with an overall finish of 3rd place out of 23 teams.  Categories included: 1st place in chicken, 6th place in ribs, 11th place in pull pork, 8th place in brisket, and 9th place in tri tip.  This finish put us in 1st place for the California BBQ Association Team of the Year (TOY) competition.

We wish to thank Kelly and Kathleen McIntosh for being outstanding reps at this event.