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Oink! Calling all bacon lovers to Reid Park for Arizona Bacon Fest.
Tickets are $25/pp and includes all food, adult beverage samples, and commemorative tasting vessels + some surprises. Tickets are $10/kids 13-17 includes all food & non alcoholic beverage.
Tucson Bacon Day happens at Reid Park from noon to 4 pm
Check out the FAQs. Follow on Facebook.
Eat more pie!
The Pie Party has been a delicious happening for 10 years. Everybody loves pie!
Here’s the skinny:
If you bake a pie, entry is FREE to this delicious pie potluck. Arrive without a pie, and a $12 donation gets you in the door to eat to your heart’s content. The money also goes to support great local non-profit organizations.
In the past, it’s been a pie contest but this year just eat and enjoy. No judging required.
On Sunday, May 5, drop off your pie or pies between noon – 1 p.m. The pie party runs from 3 – 7 p.m. It all happens at the Whistle Stop Depot, 127 W 5th St.
T-shirts will be available for purchase, and donations are always appreciated to further the reach of this community fundraiser.
People who provide pies (only homemade please) will help select the non-profit organization recipient of the event’s proceeds.
In the running is:
–Dunbar/Spring Neighborhood – Enlivening a vibrant historic community through water harvesting, public art, and sustainability
–Northern Jaguar Project – Protecting the world’s northernmost breeding jaguar population
–Nuclear Resister – Supporting anti-war and anti-nuclear prisoners of conscience
–Tucson CARES (Companion Animal Rescue, Education, and Support) – Eliminating pet overpopulation through spay and neuter programs and facilitating trap-neuter-release of feral cats
Check out the website to see what you have been missing. Now this a bite of Tucson’s grassroots deliciousness.
Taste chocolate – raise money for scholarships
Hey chocolate lovers. You know who you are — you live by the rule — Life is short, eat more chocolate.
Here’s a fabulous event to fulfill your chocolate cravings and then some:
Rincon Rotary Club Presents:
TASTE OF CHOCOLATE
When: Sunday, April 21 – 2 – 4 pm
Where: Doubletree Hotel, 445 S. Alvernon Way
What: Chocolate tastings galore plus a wine tasting for the adults, a raffle with great prizes, and a fabulous silent auction. View the website for mouth-watering photos.
Why: Support Tucson chefs and their businesses while raising money for local youth through the Rincon Rotary Scholarship Program and the 3rd Grade Dictionary Project.
Cost: Tickets are $10 for adults and up to two children under 12. Children under 4 are free with a paid adult.
Tickets will be sold at the door. However, if you’d like to avoid the line (which is very long because the event so deliciously desirable), you can purchase tickets in advance by emailing: wbtus@aol.com
Best of all: Last year I was an official judge and have been asked back. Woo Hoo!
