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Help at HOGTOBER needed
09/14/2011 6:48 AM by John M
A message from Aimee Perron Seibert, President of the Church Hill Association:
In order to make this event a huge success and encourage Richmonders to come back to the Hill every year for Hogtober, we need a 100 volunteers to help setup, clean up, serve beer, sell tickets and be all around helpers. We are more than halfway there! Please sign up now to help!
The link to sign up is not working. Also, you might want to post the date of the event. I’ll sign up to sell beer!!
Link fixed. Hogtoberfest is 1st, 12-7PM at Libby Hill Park.
I signed up to volunteer as a “floater” when this was first posted and never received a response. Wonder how many others had the same issue.
Hey there, what exactly is Hogtoberfest?
Why is Alamo BBQ not part of this when other local bbq joints located outside of Churchill are?
I signed up as a volunteer as well and have not heard from anyone. I’m not sure if they have me down or not…
Is Chuck Wrenn involved in this?
WHat about the non pork eating folks?
The Muslim Vegans and such? Pork is a hate crime
#5 does have a point…one would think Alamo would have been asked to be involved. What other BBQ joints are involved?
Sew, the website lists Buzz & Neds, Halligans and Extra Billys
Thanks Bret…just took a look.
Yeah, I agree with you. Alamo should have been involved. I’ll ask a friend who is helping coordinate. Maybe they asked Alamo and they declined. Don’t know why that would happen though but you never know…
Clearly, Alamo beats out all these others as far as taste goes and if they wern’t asked that’s kind of a slap in the face…
bopst ,no chuck.
I am a board member of the CHA in addition to being on the steering committee for hogtoberfest, so I’m going to try to answer a few questions. @#4: Hogtoberfest is a joint venture between the CHA and Style Weekly, while it is reminiscent of High on the Hog, it is not affiliated with HOTH or any of its founders. @#3: thanks to all that have volunteered, we are still working out timeslots for volunteers, you will receive an email the week before the event confirming your shift and task, we’ve tried our best to match up with what people asked for. As for Alamo, the sponsor who is neither the CHA nor Style Magazine was in charge of all the barbeque in question.
Hope that answers the questions that a lot of people have. Please feel free to contact me. tiglathpilesar@gmail.com
::cough::all places that sell beer::cough::.
@#3&6- I signed up awhile back and didn’t hear anything either. I assumed I wasn’t needed and now I have other plans.
@13- your post does not clear up the Alamo question. Were they invited or not?
Beyond the Alamo question, the sponsor also missed Ronnies, which is literally 100 yards away. Kind of a slap in the face to the local, especially since both of them are better than the “imports.” If we can showcase some of our local BBQ folks may actually come down here more than once a year. Major goof up by the organizer to leave these two off. Unless this gets fixed, I’ll be doing my own BBQ festival with lunch at Ronnies, dinner at Alamo.
@ #13 – Hopefully the CHA learned a lesson from their August picnic and will have bathroom facilities. $550 rental is too much? Really? Not everyone leaves across the street.
Sorry Chip…. what picnics do you go to that a bathroom is needed? If one was needed ask the host and I can think of several folks who would have open their bathrooms for your use. And yes a $550 rental is too much… this additude is why the CHA accounts have gotten so low.
Wait so is CHA really hosting a BBQ Festival and Doesn’t bother invite the one restaurant that has been helping improve quality of life in church hill, and instead invites their competitors.
Thats real cold CHA, glad I never bought into your useless membership.
#16 and #19, please read #13’s post again. It clearly outlines what happened. Neight CHA or Style were part of choosing what BBQ restaurants were involved. If you’re still confused, then read #14. That should clear things up for you.
I received my shift assignment and information via email on the 18th.
I got that CHA wasn’t involved in the initial decision. Why did they not lobby for Alamo to be included once they realized the oversight? Or did they? Who is this mystery organizer? Buz?
I’ll come for the beer and music but this is embarrassing to have a BBQ festival missing the 3 best BBQ restaurants in Richmond (Q, Alamo, Ronnies) when two are within walking distance. It’s sad that CHA didn’t stand up for Alamo in particular after Alamo gave them free BBQ for the picnic in June. It’s also probably not too late to fix these oversights…
My guess is that a beer distributor is the sponsor and forced the inclusion of their business partners and the exclusion of eateries that dont sell beer. Though I suspect a compromise solution could have been arranged somehow
#23 and #24: Totally agree!
Title of this operation: HOMG?! Not inviting locals that have donated free to CHA picnics/events IS a GIANT F***Up. It’s our community!, letting others run a event in our backyard is super unwise/unacceptable. CHA needs to apologize to those, “Kicked To The Curb”. No Excuses..!
Maybe the locals should throw a counter event in Jefferson Park and not invite CHA.
It’s not too late to change things. Sure the flyers may have been gone up but I bet more booths could be ordered. If CHA doesn’t look out for their supporters like Alamo, I will be very disappointed in them.
Because “someone else” was in charge of the event does not excuse BEER being the deciding factor for a BBQ event. A fundraiser for CH and the CH folks aren’t a part of it? NO THANK YOU – I will boycott it even though I was originally sooooo excited that I changed work schedules. Mute point once I discovered BBQ wasn’t the determining factor for the who’s who list of a BBQ event.
Perhaps the still veiled organizers are taking their cue from Mayor Jones.
The Mayor knew if he wanted the jail built correctly he had to go outside the area and get Washington’s Tompkins /Ballard (a joint venture). If you want the city branded and promoted correctly you can’t use simple local folks, you go outside the area and hire Atlas Advertising from Denver. To develop the areas on the James River you go get Hargreaves Associates from outside the city. Why would you want to listen to local citizens or pay any mind to that silly master plan that was years in the making.
As it goes in City government so it goes in BBQ. If there ain’t nobody in the neighborhood that can do it right, you go get the folks who can do it right.
Or maybe the sponsors are going with the folks they always go with. Just like the Mayor tends to hand out minority construction contracts to the Davis family (Thomas Davis is minority contractor on the jail, his dad’s firm is building the church) because that’s what he does. The Sponsors always use these BBQ restaurants because they always have. I mean, why would you even want to look elsewhere when you already got your crew.
CHA is not the organizer, yet their name is connected with the event and they profit from the event. Mayor Jones hedges when asked about being the full time senior pastor at 1st Baptist Church of South Richmond. Yet his name and picture are prominent in/on their literature. While running for office Pastor Jones was happy to talk about the church and the mighty things he and it had done for Richmond. Now that he has reaped the profit, Mayor Jones puts church topics off limits. (Style 6/10/11 “Under the jail” by Scott Bass)
So you see the hogtober folks are just following in the steps of the mayor.
The true reason these BBQ restaurants were chosen is not important you Nimrods, come out spend your money, let the CHA profit.
P.S. Enjoy the view while you can. It is only a matter of time before Hargreaves Associates endorses the Echo Harbour project. Hey can you guess where the principals in the Echo Harbour project are from?
Wonder if they are BBQ fans?
I think I may boycott as well. This event should showcase Church Hill.
#8 Nordy. Try the Vegan and Vegetarian festival. This is Hogtober not Vegtober? If you do not want pork-just do not eat pork, but please stop trying to push your vegetarian needs on everyone else–geesh it is a pig festival not a veggie festival!!
Let’s get this straight: CHA is helping to put on this event in their own backyard (“joint venture with Style”) and they do not have a say on who’s invited to the dance? Are you kidding me? CHA is not down with the home team? Did anyone consider the ramifications?
I’d be interested to hear from Alamo or Ronnie on this matter…Are their feelings hurt? Do they even care either way? Were they already booked for a large catering job and can not feasibly take on this event ? Would they want their loyal patrons to petition for a change of status or boycott? I’d support a Union Hill Civic Association alternate event (BYOB) in the Alamo parking lot just to prove a strong point to CHA, or even boycott. I say we let our attendance & money do the talking!
@28…I think the term you were looking for is “moot” point.
http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/mute.html