Kirk Larson and Ronnie Paul operating two of the meat slicers that run almost non-stop from 3:30 - 7 pm. (Photo provided)
Some of the many volunteers making sandwiches at last year’s BBQ. They will make about 4,000 sandwiches to feed the expected 2,000 people. (Photo provided)
Submitted by Corbitt Phipps
The 2025 Junior Fair Beef BBQ will be held on Thursday, Sept. 4 from 4:30 – 7 p.m. at the Ohio Valley CTC. The BBQ will once again be drive-thru only.
Enter Lloyd Road off of SR 125, drive north on Lloyd Roadd and turn into the West Union High School student parking lot, then to the front of West Union High School, where you will form two lines and proceed to the front of the vocational school to have your meals delivered to your car. Purchase your tickets from the sales staff standing in the parking lot.
The menu will be the same as always, roast beef sandwiches, cole slaw, baked beans and potato chips. The meals will be prepared by the BBQ staff, put in carry-out boxes and staged in front of the CTC entrance, ready to present to you as you pull forward. Tickets are $12.
Since the first BBQ in 1963 all profits from the BBQ go to Junior Fair improvements on the fairgrounds. Improvements in the past include helping with the first (old) show arena, the new show arena, the new rabbit and poultry barn, cattle barn, blacktopping the roads, pens for the sheep barn, pens for the goat barn and helping with the new horse barn.
A total of 1350 pounds of choice beef rounds will be wrapped and placed in a 46-foot long by four feet wide and four feet deep earthen pit where six cord of firewood will have produced two feet of red-hot coals. It will be covered with tin and a foot of soil and slow cook for 12 hours, at 3 p.m. on the afternoon of September 4 the pit will be uncovered and the meat will be brought to the CTC where it is sliced and made into sandwiches.
If you would like to help or if you have questions, call Corbitt Phipps at (937) 205-0842.
