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THURSDAY, JULY 10, 2014
Vol. 2 Edition 27
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Who wants to sample our sauce?
Sarah Schofield/Special to The Chatham Voice
Grills were fired up and signature BBQ sauces were flowing at the 2014 Ribfest held at Tecumseh Park in Chatham on Saturday. Las Vegas’ Ribs Royale team – including Paige Kemp, left, and Andy Sawh – were busy during the four-day event, offering up taste sticks of their sauces and feeding hungry customers looking for the best ribs and meats they could find.
Voice celebrates first anniversary The Chatham Voice
One year ago, we printed the first Chatham Voice. We launched the business based on what we saw as the need for a newspaper
with the community’s needs in mind. With more than one million copies printed and distributed, we can safely say that there is a need for an alternative to corpo-
rate media in our community. The public response has been overwhelming. We’ve had so many people tell us they read us cover to cover that we
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made it part of an advertising campaign. The best part of our week continues to be when we encounter readers who tell us how much they enjoy what we do.
We’re motivated to tell the stories of our community. We rejoice when we win the big game, we mourn when we lose a member of our extended family.
Mostly we write about so-called “ordinary people” doing extraordinary things. We have a lot of those and we haven’t begun to scratch the surface.
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