2015 North Carolina Blueberry Festival Guide

WELCOME TO THE 12th Annual North Carolina

Blueberry Festival

Your Guide to the 2015 North Carolina BLUEBERRY FESTIVAL

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Welcome to the 12th Annual North Carolina Blueberry Festival A Message from the Mayor...

We in Burgaw are delighted to host this wonderful festival in our historic town center. It gives us a chance to show how beautiful a place our home town is, full of small-town charm, history, friendly people and interesting architecture.

We hope the festival has everything you and your family enjoy, with a large variety of vendors, children’s activities, great food, live entertainment and of course, fresh blueberries. You can visit our shops, restaurants, historic buildings and parks and maybe even take a stroll on our walking trail.

So enjoy your time in Burgaw and come back to visit us sometime. Burgaw is a great town, year round.

- Eugene Mulligan, Mayor Town of Burgaw 2 – NC Blueberry Festival

– June 20, 2015

It’s here, the 2015 NC Blueberry Festival!

by Olivia Dawson, NC Blueberry Festival Coordinator

This year the festival will be held on Saturday June 20, 2015, always the third Saturday in June in Downtown Burgaw around its Historic Courthouse Square. In addition to our traditional one day event, the festival is excited to kickoff this year’s festival with a Friday night “Blueberry Jam” where there will be great Bands, BBQ, & Blueberries all at the main stage.

The North Carolina Blueberry Festival is always growing in attendance and popularity. It remains as one of the top premier family events in our state. The festival is a symbol & a tribute to this area’s blueberry farmers as well as the blueberry production in the southeastern region of our state. And although the weather was quite warm and threats of rain continued throughout the day, nothing dampened the spirits of last year’s visitors.

The Blueberry industry still provides a growing statewide economic impact of an estimated 70 million dollars annually along with festival day generating an estimated 1.5 million dollar positive impact to the local area economy during our one day event. When visitors come into the area for the festival they see and visit not only the local shops, restaurants, and businesses in Burgaw but also those that surround the area including Wallace, Wilmington, and area beaches.

This year The North Carolina Blueberry Festival will hold its 12th Anniversary with excitement of an even greater festival, larger crowds, more than 130 of the top rated craft

vendors from around our state, 25 food vendors, the Annual Blueberry Car Show hosted this year by the Wilmington Port City Mopar Car Club, Annual 5K Run/Walk, Tour de Blueberry bike ride as always provided by the Cape Fear Cyclists group, Model Train Show presented by the C ap e Fear Mo del

Show and Appraisal Fair that will be located at the outside depot dock and parking areas.

This year we have scheduled more fantastic music and various entertainment venues to provide enjoyment for all age groups extending the time of this year’s festival.

Of course the festival’s main attrac-

Tr a i n Show Society inside our renovated depot, non-profit organizations, civic groups, and educational displays. Let me not forget to mention the area churches that provide us with their delicious blueberry baked goods and jams!! Back this year is the Antique

tion is the abundance of fresh local blueberries provided by our many farmers from around the area!

Like in years past, Blueberry and BBQ Sales be available from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday June 19th. This is the start of events and activities that

kick off the festival on Friday! Another Friday favorite to the locals as well as our visitors is the well-known Annual Recipe Contest where many bring their cooking and creative skills which of course has to include blueberries in a prepared dish to be judged, held at our restored Burgaw Community House adjacent to the Courthouse Square, this is a continuing event sponsored by The Star News, with the Annual BBQ Cookoff Event also commencing Friday evening.

That’s right, North Carolina is passionate about its barbeque! How could we not include BBQ as part of The North Carolina Blueberry Festival?

The BBQ Cook-off event is another favorite annual blueberr y festival tradition, which features champion cookers throughout North Carolina where they will compete to be named now the 12th Annual North Carolina Blueberry Festival Barbecue Champs!

Please come join us on Friday night June 19th from 5- 1030 pm and on festival day Saturday June 20th from 9 a.m. to 10p.m. as we celebrate the 12th Annual North Carolina Blueberry Festival! Come enjoy the taste of the good ’ole southeastern North Carolina Blueberries!

As always the festival’s success is owed to all the volunteers, visitors, farmers, and our sponsors! We appreciate their support in making this festival such a great and fun-filled family event enjoyed by thousands!

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Presenting the

2015 North Carolina Blueberry Festival Scholarship Winners Gladys Sanchez

Tarrah Walston

Heide Trask High School

East Duplin High School

Caroline Bolin

Kyndall Westerbeek

Topsail High School

James Kenan High School

Skyler Ray

Clinton High School

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Katie Mathews Photography©

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Celebrating the

12th Annual BBQ Cook-Off The North Carolina Blueberry Festival holds a Barbecue Cook-Off each year. This event is an annual blueberry festival tradition, and has been sanctioned by the NC Pork Council! This year the North Carolina Blueberry Festival will proudly celebrate its 12th year! The pigs will be cooked by many local area contestants along with champion cookers from throughout North Carolina where they will compete once again to be named the 12th Annual NC Blueberry Festival Barbecue Champs! The contestants are judged on the taste of their barbecue and their sauce served with it. The pigs may be cooked with wood, charcoal, or gas. Cooking begins on the Friday evening before the festival, June 19, 2015, and Judging will begin at 8:00 am on the Saturday morning of the festival, June 20, 2015. After judging of the array of flavors, the meat is then chopped and served at the festival as BBQ. You will find this to be the most popular meal at the festival!

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