Kentucky Fort Harrod Beef Festival

12/10/2020

MCIS Community Christmas Lights
Mercer County Intermediate School is excited to invite you to participate in a community wide holiday event! Our staff, along with staff and students from other Mercer County Schools, will be creating stationary displays for community families to drive through and enjoy. Think of it as a Southern Lights inspired reverse parade! We are inviting any community business or organization to participate by creating their own display to be set up on school grounds. This could be anything from decorating the bed of a truck, to creating a stationary parade float, to setting up a display on the ground. The sky's the limit!

The displays will be set up for one night only--December 19th, from 5:30-8:30 pm. There are no fees for participating. All COVID health and safety guidelines will be followed, this means spectators may not get out of their vehicles and participants may not hand out items to spectators during the event.

Kelly Odell
Principal
Mercer County Intermediate School
[email protected]

or

Will Carlton
Assistant Principal
Mercer County Intermediate School
[email protected]

Mercer County Intermediate School: 859-733-7080

When you contact us we will provide you with more specific details and information.

We are also encouraging businesses and restaurants to be open for business on this night. We will include all participants in the advertisement for this event. We are hopeful that this will be a time for our community to come together and celebrate getting through these long hard months of 2020.

Sincerely,
Kelly Odell and Will Carlton
Principal and Assistant Principal
Mercer County Intermediate School

12/20/2019

Thank you to every volunteer, sponsor, donor, participant, vendor and attendee we’ve ever had at our festival. Y’all made our event and y’all are why it is extremely difficult for me to write this post. It would be easy for me to focus on the fact I know there are people who will be rejoicing as soon as they read this and that fact is quite troubling and hurtful. I just hope each of you know how much I appreciate any time you have leant a helping hand or any kind of support. This has been an incredibly difficult and extremely emotional week for me. I along with many others have put a lot of hard work, dedication, hours, blood, sweat and tears into this festival. We have worked diligently to overcome many hurdles, some we knew about, some we may never know. I will never understand those who were actively working against our festival. My passion was always to use this as a way to celebrate and educate people about the agriculture industry, specifically the beef sector, and to build an event that our entire community and surrounding communities could attend and enjoy. This is not something I take lightly at all; I have shed many tears and lost a lot of sleep debating about what to do. It truly breaks my heart to have to say we have come to the very difficult decision to not have the festival. I realize that my pain is minuscule in the grand scheme of life and especially in comparison to what several families in our community are dealing with right now. I pray for all of them. I pray that each of you have a blessed Christmas and pray that each of you know how much I have valued you over the years.
Linda McClanahan
President

12/10/2019

We are looking for your feedback/review from our 2019 Festival. Please complete by Monday December 16th noon.

We will have a board meeting Monday December 16th 6:30 PM.

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11/19/2019

Congratulations to Katherine West for winning the KY State Festivals pageant! She represented Miss Teen Beef Festival the best! We are so proud of her and want to wish her good luck at nationals!!!!

10/30/2019

Come out and get some GREAT Chili and support the Love Tree

10/07/2019

2019 Grill Off Awards

Overall Results
Grand Champion - The Pig's Blanket
Reserve Grand - Paradisebbq Danvilleky
HM - Smoke Show Cook Off Team

Brisket
1st - The Pig's Blanket
2nd - Shady River Smokers
3rd - Squeal Team 6 USA BarbecueTeam
4th - Off the Walls BBQ
5th - Chew Crew BBQ
6th - Smoke Show Cook Off Team

Tri-Tip
1st - Paradisebbq Danvilleky
2nd - Shady River Smokers
3rd - The Pig's Blanket
4th - Elkhawg Smokers
5th - Smoke Show Cook Off Team
6th - Triple J&C BBQ Team

Steak
1st - Paradisebbq Danvilleky
2nd - Triple J&C BBQ Team
3rd - High Mountain Catering and Events
4th - The Pig's Blanket
5th - Smoke Show Cook Off Team
6th - Squeal Team 6 USA BarbecueTeam

Burger
1st - Off the Walls BBQ
2nd - The Pig's Blanket
3rd - Squeal Team 6 USA BarbecueTeam
4th - High Mountain Catering and Events
5th - Paradisebbq Danvilleky
6th - Elkhawg Smokers

One Bite Challenge Cooks Choice
1st - Happy Hancocks
2nd - Triple J&C BBQ Team
3rd - Squeal Team 6 USA BarbecueTeam

One Bite Challenge Beef
1st - Paradisebbq Danvilleky
2nd - Triple J&C BBQ Team
3rd - The Pig's Blanket

Sauce - Spicy
1st - Chew Crew BBQ

Sauce - Mustard
1st - Chew Crew BBQ

Sauce - Traditional/Sweet
1st - Paradisebbq Danvilleky

Best of Show/Peoples Choice
1st - Chew Crew BBQ
2nd - Shady River Smokers
3rd - Smoke Show Cook Off Team

10/07/2019

10/06/2019

What a great weekend!
🙏 God is amazing. There was a lot of prayer that happened leading up to this event. I’m so thankful God answered my prayers with perfect weather, incredible volunteers, big increase in pageant numbers, increase in youth grill off competition, a safe weekend, lots of great vendors and some very talented grill off teams!!! There are probably some answered prayers that I’m forgetting at the moment and I don’t mean to offend anyone but I am grateful for what He has blessed us with. One thing I can assure you is this weekend would have been a lot harder without all the prayers leading up to it.
🐮 There are a lot of people who made this weekend possible. The staff at Mercer County Extension Office, Daniel Baker, Harrodsburg Rotary Club, Kiwanis Club, our board of directors/volunteers, sponsors/donors, vendors, all of our competitors (grill off teams, youth grill off, pageants, 5K, Bike Ride) and all those who attended the festival.
🥩 Congratulations to all our winners and thank you to all the grill off teams for choosing to be a part of our festival.
Linda McClanahan, President

10/05/2019

Grill off teams prepped and ready to go! Bracelets on sale now. $5 to come sample brisket from all these amazing teams. Soupbone has also taken the stage and is providing some incredible entertainment. Free to come to the festival and listen to them!!!

10/05/2019

We have had a cell phone turned into the registration/information booth at the Festival today. If it is yours please come claim it.