Rotary Club of Monmouth is celebrating its 103rd year of service to the Monmouth community with the annual Rotary Pork Chop BBQ event.
On Tuesday, June 8, drive-up or walk-up services are available from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on West Broadway at the Pattee Plaza, going east to the City Square. There will be no onsite seating. The menu for these 700 meals include a butterfly pork chop sandwich, applesauce, chips and a dessert. The meals will be offered on a first come, first serve basis. A free-will offering is suggested as all proceeds will benefit projects of the Monmouth Rotary Club.
For the past 39 years Monmouth Rotary Club has sponsored the Pork Chop BBQ as its major annual fundraiser and allows the Club to support many community projects. Rotary’s projects focus on service to the community with funds realized from the Pork Chop BBQ being invested in special needs for the Monmouth area.
BBQ proceeds further Rotary projects such as Weekend Meals for the Monmouth-Roseville Schools, Warren County Prime Beef Princess sponsor, career shadowing programs with the University of Illinois Extension, Adopt-A-Highway – US 34 Bypass, and International Clean Water Projects.
In previous years the Monmouth Rotary has purchased dictionaries for fourth grade students in the Monmouth-Roseville School District, constructed a sensory integration trail for horseback riders at Rainbow Riders Therapeutic Horseback Riding Center, purchased bumper pads for the YMCA Gym and built picnic tables for the Field of Dreams as well as refurbished the restrooms at the Warren County History Museum.
The Rotary BBQ has a long history with the first Rotary sponsored BBQ being held in 1960 where chicken halves were served with the last chicken BBQ being served on the Square as part of the Sesquicentennial Celebration in Monmouth in 1981. In 1982 Rotary’s event became a Pork Chop BBQ which it continues in the same tradition 39 years later. For the June 8 Pork Chop BBQ, Rotarians will grill 700 pork chops for the annual event.
