The seventh annual Buzz-B-Q, hosted by KABZ-FM, 103.7 The Buzz, will be Saturday, May 14, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., at the North Little Rock RV Park on the North Shore of the Arkansas River.
The Buzz-B-Q barbecue and music festival benefits the Arkansas Professional Firefighters’ project, Camp Sunshine.
“Camp Sunshine is an annual four-day camp for pediatric burn survivors completely funded by the Arkansas Professional Firefighters and is free for the camper,” said Capt. Mark Warford, president of IAFF Local No. 35. “By partnering with The Buzz on Buzz-B-Q, we are able to help fund this camp and assist the kids’ transition from being a burn victim to burn survivor through fun activities with other kids who are going through a similar situation.”
Camp Sunshine is held every August at Camp Aldersgate in west Little Rock. Counselors and volunteers are firefighters, adult burn survivors and Arkansas Children’s Hospital personnel, such as the Burn Center nurses. Volunteers participate in many activities with campers including fishing, swimming, canoeing, arts and crafts, a dance and even a trip to Magic Springs amusement park near Hot Springs.
“The atmosphere is relaxed and happy. Kids can catch up with old friends and meet new ones, all having survived the same devastating experience,” Warford said. “We get as much out of the camp as the kids themselves. It brings it home, and to the heart, as to why we do the job we do.”
Tickets to Buzz-B-Q are on sale now. The public may buy one ticket for $10 and get one free at participating ticket locations before the event. Ticket locations are listed online at www.1037thebuzz.com. Tickets are $10 a person at the door on the day of the event. Children 12 and under are admitted free.
More than 90 local barbecue teams will compete in the barbecue contest for $5,000 in cash and prizes in the categories of pork, ribs and chicken. Forty-five teams are competing in the Average Joe Division for the laid-back griller. Forty-seven teams are competing in the more competitive Pro Division.
Half of the teams will be handing out free samples of their barbecue to the public. These teams will be competing for the People’s Choice Award that will be judged by a random sampling of Buzz-B-Q attendees. Teams also will be voted on for a showmanship prize for originality of the barbecue team space. Teams giving free samples and participating in the showmanship contest will display signs in their team space.
Live music will be featured on the music stage by Josh Green, The Moses Tucker Band, Jeff Coleman and the Feeders, Taylor Made Rocks and Canvas. The Kids Zone will feature options such as a rock-climbing wall and the Buzzaritaville will offer food, drinks and entertainment for the whole family. KABZ personalities Tommy Smith, David Bazzel, Roger Scott, Justin Acri and Pat Bradley will be among those serving as masters of ceremony.
The night before, the Buzz is hosting the Kick-off to Buzz-B-Q party from 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. at the RV Park that is free to the public. Buzzaritaville will be open and live music will be provided by Steele Jessup, Breaking Eden and Sharpe Dunaway and the Meanies.
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Odds are great that I shouldn’t go there, me being shaped the way I am — round in the middle and bald as an egg on the back of my head — but I have to address the sights I encountered Saturday:
I helped with our Razorbacks coverage of the Louisiana-Monroe game that day at War Memorial Stadium in Little Rock. My wife dropped me off on Markham and Fair Park near the stadium. Coming in from the west, we ran into the backed-up traffic just before Markham intersects with University and crept on in from there.
Lots of people were walking toward — and for some reason away from — the stadium and a bunch more were partying along the way from St. Vincent Infirmary Medical Center over to the stadium, mostly at the expense of the War Memorial golf course.
Because traffic was creeping, we could see the walkers headed both ways and the partygoers they were passing.
First, apparently, the latest fashion trend for women is to wear jean cutoffs with various forms of cowboy boots. Some of the jeans were “torn” and some were hemmed. The younger the woman, the more likely it was that her jean shorts had fringe unraveling. Scores of women were wearing that combination, many with some type of Razorbacks T-shirt or sweatshirt as a top.
A handful of them were attractive in their outfit. A few more were cute, but likely lacked the proper tan to be showing off their legs in front of 55,000 people. Many more were not properly toned to be showing their legs at all. The rest should not have worn clothes that showed they lacked a workout routine.
Second, some of the guys were just as bad. They were dressed in shirts and pants that didn’t fit them — by several sizes in some cases. Some of them showed every lump in their roly-poly bellies and backsides. But I wasn’t noticing them as much as the women. My wife, Nancy, who is an equal opportunity fashion critic, confirmed that both sexes were looking pretty paunchy in their U of A duds.
Of course, these people have every right to dress how they want to for a party before a football game and, possibly, for the game itself. I’m not saying they shouldn’t dress just as they did.
I’m just saying that maybe they should consider how they appear to a casual observer who happened to go by them at a slow pace on Saturday. I don’t mind if they dress that way.
Maybe they should know, though, that if they are wearing the latest trend because they hope to be ogled in a big crowd, they are having a different effect than desired. Chances are good that they’re being noticed for their portliness and not their pulchritude.
A longer version of this post may appear in this week’s editions of The North Little Rock Times, Cabot Star-Herald, Maumelle Monitor, Carlisle Independent, Sherwood Voice and the Lonoke Democrat. You can find online editions of our newspapers at www.pulaskinews.net and www.lonokenews.net.
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