Fred Stump Memorial Salmon BBQ

Enjoy a delicious salmon meal during Berry Dairy Days! The Fred Stump Memorial Salmon Barbeque is one of the Burlington Edison Kiwanis Club’s biggest annual fundraisers. The money raised goes to support Kiwanis Club’s charitable contributions, including between $11,000 and $13,000 worth of scholarships to the Burlington-Edison High School, funding the Key Club (the high school chapter of Kiwanis), and various local senior and children’s charities and programs.

About 1,100 pounds of salmon will be served during this event. The meal includes char-broiled salmon with secret sauce, baked potato with sour cream and butter on the side, coleslaw, dinner roll, beverage, and an ice cream dessert. According to longtime Burlington resident Roger Hulbush, the secret sauce was invented in 1957 by his dad Walter. His dad made the sauce for years then passed duties on to Roger. Roger eventually asked his trusted cleaning lady to take over the sauce making only to find out that she left out a key ingredient for years.

The cost of the meal is $18 (no children’s meals).

This year there will be two ways to enjoy the wonderful salmon barbeque fundraiser:

The Maiben Park barbeque at 1011 Greenleaf Ave. will be Saturday, June 18 from 11:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. There will be a free inflatable bouncy house, provided by the Central Valley Assembly of God. The Kiwanis Club built the Maiben Park barbeque pit in the mid-1960s, especially for this event.

To-go meals are made for business owners who want to feed their employees and support the cause; orders are delivered to businesses on Saturday. Most years more than 150 meals are ordered! To purchase to-go meals please call Les Tokarchuk at 360-3913721; orders will be taken up until 5 p.m. on Friday, June 17.

Event History

The Burlington-Edison Kiwanis Club was founded on December 13, 1948 by Steve Johns; the club’s first president was Clarence Judy. The Kiwanis mission is to serve the children of the world one child, one family and one community at a time. The local chapter has always taken their mission seriously.

The Salmon Barbeque was started by Kiwanis Club members in 1949 to raise money for the construction of a local community center; making this the 73rd annual event!

Raised in the Puyallup Valley, Fred Stump and his wife Betty moved to Burlington in the early 1960s for a partnership in the Skagit Animal Clinic. Fred joined Kiwanis at that time and became an enthusiastic promoter and participant of the salmon barbeque; many years he would sell over 200 tickets. Says his widow Betty Stump, “Fred had a way with people…you didn’t say no to Fred.” The fundraiser was renamed the Fred Stump Memorial Barbeque after he passed away in May, 1992. Betty still lives in Burlington and has many happy memories of attending the Berry Dairy Days Festival.