Lisa Avery and volunteer Cindy Tobin Wagner kept watch at the entrance to the Labatt Beer Tent Saturday afternoon at BurgerFest. Print Media Publicity Chair Eileen Hotho posed with one of the Food Contest Judges she recruited, Chef Krista Van Wagner, former owner of Curly's Restaurant, graduate of the Culinary Institute, teacher and owner of Krista's Kitchen. The BurgerFest Food Contest winners were: Best Burger in the the Burg, O'Brien's West End Inn for their entry of Smokehouse Burger; Most
Unique/Creative Menu Item, The Two Bucka Roos, for their entry of Grilled Cheese-Sloppy Joe Sandwich w/Jalapeno Cheese & Pepper Jelly, and Best Tasting Menu Item, Big Belly Barbeque for their entry of Hickory Smoke Brisket Reuben. Along with Van Wagner, judges were Editor Chris Graham of The Sun, Sarah Minkewicz, WIVB-TV journalist, Carl Lam, WGRZ-TV meterologist, Hamburg Village Trustee Paul Gaughan and Hamburg Town Clerk Cathy Rybczynski. Among the motor vehicles on display at the BurgerFest Rotary Club of Hamburg-KeyBank Cruise were beautiful early autos, sporty models, a huge military tank and about five classic hearses, some of which carried ghoulish passengers and bore crytic signs such as "last responde."
