By Staff
August 27, 2017
BURLINGTON, ON
If you are putting together your schedule for the week don’t forget RibFest –
Friday September 1st through to Sunday September 3rd, 2017 – 11AM – 11PM
Monday September 4th – 11AM – 7PM
Sponsored by the Lakeshore Rotary club – a sixty strong membership that makes the event happen every year. This time they have made some changes to the model – not the menu.
Burlington’s Ribfest – If you looked around there was still some sitting room. The weather was close to perfect and the music was good – great way to bring a summer to a close.
The event is the major fund raising initiative for the Lakeshore Rotary. In 2014 – the year of the flood – the Rotary used the occasion to raise funds for those families that had been wiped out by the flood. It was successful enough for the Association to look for new ways to serve the community.
This year the focus is on the Carpenter Hospice which is in the process of close to doubling the size of the facility.
VIP tent – open to the public Sunday afternoon and evening.
A VIP tent has been set up, courtesy of Carriage Gate Homes, that will be open to the public Sunday afternoon and evening. Your ticket, available on line, gets you a spot at the front of the line to buy your selection of ribs and then saunter over to the VIP tent and enjoy the chow where the beverage selection is a little more varied – includes some specialty cocktails.
This is a Sunday only occasion – the tent is open to the public. It is a space that is sheltered, has a great site line to the stage and a bar that has an upscale selection of beverages. And, an upscale biffy.
More details on the ticket offering for this can be found HERE.
The event will serve up the same ribs people in Burlington have been enjoying since 1996 when there were less than ten ribbers offering a food that was new to many.
While it rained most of the one day event in 1996 – it was successful enough financially for the Rotary to make a long term commitment.
That commitment has resulted in the raising of more than $3 million – nothing shabby about that number.
