Enjoy some great barbecue and support Loudon County's Habitat for Humanity!

Ribfest 4 Homes is coming up Saturday, August 27th from 1 to 5 pm at the Church of the Resurrection
between Lenoir City and Loudon on Sugar Limb Rd.

Go to www.ribfest4homes.com and get your tickets or sign up to compete or sell crafts.

You can also call 865 986-2390.

Ribfest 4 Homes is a pork rib smoking contest sponsored by Pilot Oil with media sponsors; WVLT-TV channel 8, Charter Communications, 96.7 Merle FM, and the Loudon County News Herald to benefit
Habitat for Humanity.

There will be between 15 to 20 of the region's best professional and hobby team pork smokers for the public to sample their ribs!

Craft booths selling their wares!

Plus bluegrass music from Lonesome Road and others!

For those who want other concessions, hamburgers and hotdogs, grilled corn and other sides will be available.

Best of all, there is no admittance fee!

You can enjoy all the sights and smells without paying a dime, but it will be awfully hard to do that once you smell the smoke!

"We know you will want to taste those ribs once you smell them smokin!

For $30 day of or for $25, in advance, from the website: www.Ribfest4homes.Com, you can purchase a ticket for 12 rib bones, one each from the competitors of your choice, plus the church is providing a drink and all the fixins to go along with your meal!

12 bones is a full rack of ribs and all the fixins for just $25!

And thanks to pilot oil, all 320 racks of ribs cost us nothing! Just the ticket sales alone will raise over $8,000
for Habitat for Humanity!

So, you add the $7,000 in program guide ad sales, that's over $15,000 to build someone a new home!

Anita Russell was the first Ribfest 4 Homes home recipient.

She encourages people to attend the event and says it made such a difference for her family.

Ribfest 4 Homes and the Episcopal Church of the Resurrection raised the funds to sponsor her family last year!

"It was the most awesome, life changing, and rewarding experience of my life. My church, First Baptist of Lenoir City, provided some of the manpower, but all the fundraising came from Ribfest and the Episcopal church. My family and I worked side by side, raising walls, building friendships, and a house soon stood! The partnership between Ribfest and Habitat for Humanity was awesome. I just want to help another deserving family turn a house into a safe, warm, loving home! I can't say enough great things about his great, loving event!" said Anita.

Ribfest 4 Homes is also a competition and it's not too late to enter!

For $100 entry fee, you will be given, 21 racks of ribs to smoke, 20 will be sold to the public and
1 will go to the judges for a chance @ $1,200 in prize money!

In addition, Wampler's Farm Sausage is donating sausage & prize money for a sausage cooking competition!

There are lots of ways for area pork smokers to win, contribute, and have fun!

Just go to www.Ribfest4homes.Com to enter and/or to buy tickets!