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welcomes all to smoke and strut down South Center
Weimar locals flooded the streets near City Hall and the Boys and Girls Club to eat, dance, play, cook and enjoy Texas German hospitality for the city’s annual Gedenke! festival on Friday and Saturday, May 8-9.
View results for the BBQ cook-off, parade, cornhole tournament, pie contest and the 5K Fun Run below!
BBQ Cook-Off Gedenke! welcomed 66 teams for its annual BBQ Cook-Off and handed out over $10,000 worth of cash and prizes for winners. Judging on Friday, May 8, covered margaritas, sausage, open and barbecue sauce, and Saturday, May 9, covered chicken, beans, pork rib, brisket, showmanship and overall winners. See the photos of the winners on our website!
Overall
1. It’s Ight Cookers
2. BDB Bar-B-Que
3. Two Crackers Smokin
4. Tejas Barbacoa
5. Meat Beaters 2
6. Stay Wid It Cookers
7. Mrs. BDB BBQ
8. Meat Beaters
9. Sticker Hill Ranch Cookers
10. Meat Beaters
Showmanship — Patriotic Theme 1. Stay Wid It VIP
2. Size Matters
3. Tejas Barbacoa
4. Sticker Hill Ranch Cookers
5. Smokin Studs
Brisket
1. It’s Ight Cookers
2. Mrs. BDB BBQ
3. Tejas Barbacoa
4. BDB Bar-B-Que
5. Meat Beaters
6. Big Bad John
7. Silver Bullet Cookers
8. The Lone Cooker
9. SJ Cooking
10. Meat Beaters 2
Pork Ribs
1. Meat Beaters 2
2. It’s Ight Cookers
3. Two Crackers Smokin
4. Kinfolk Kookers
5. Meaty Boys 1
6. BDB Bar-B-Que
7. Silver Bullet Cookers
8. Tejas Barbacoa
9. Meat Beaters
10. Kdub’s BBQ
Chicken
1. Stay Wid It Cookers 2
2. Sticker Hill Ranch Cookers
3. Two Crackers Smokin
4. All In Cookers
5. The Lone Cooker
6. BDB Bar-B-Que
7. Stay Wid It Cookers
8. Two Crackers Smokin
9. Tex-Mex Cookers
10. Smooth Donation
Beans
1. Mrs. BDB BBQ
2. Sandies Camp Cookers
3. Meaty Boys 1
4. Sticker Hill Ranch Cookers
5. Last Minute Cookers 2
Sausage
1. Last Minute #2
2. Meaty Boys
3. Smoking Studs
4. Meat Beaters
5. All In Cookers
Open
1. Last Man Standing
2. Sticker Hill Ranch Cookers
3. Stay Wid It Cookers
4. Meat Beaters
5. Smoking Studs
Barbecue Sauce
1. Texas Original Cookers
2. Dirty Branch Smokerz
3. Meaty Boys 1
4. Last Man Standing
5. All In Cookers
Margarita
1. Smooth Donation
Parade Contest
Children raced for candy thrown from around 50 floats that chugged down West North Street to North Mechanic Street for the festival’s morning parade, Saturday, May 9. Floats were judged under the following categories:
Antique Vehicle
1. Classic 1951 Chevrolet 3100, five-window pickup
2. 1962 Pontiac Tempest LeMans
Educational
1. Weimar Elementary fourth grade
2. St. Michael Catholic School
Class Reunion
1. Weimar High School Class of
1986
2. Weimar High School Class of
2021
Commercial
1. Fayette Savings Bank
2. Texas Fight Lab
Service Organization
1. Flatonia Chamber of Commerce — Best in Show
2. Hallettsville Chamber of Commerce Cornhole Tournament
Limited to the first 40 teams, duos aimed and tossed colorful bean bags in a small grassy field next to the Boys and Girls Club for the cornhole tournament, Saturday afternoon, May 9. The top three winners are:
1. Kelly and Kenny Berger
2. Clay Barton and Wyatt Pavlik
3. Melissa and Art
Pie Contest
Weimar Encore Lions Club hosted their annual Gedenke! Pie Contest on Saturday, May 9. Funds from the contest will support scholarships for Weimar High School graduates. Pies were judged under the following categories: Grand Prize: Nancy Parrish with her chocolate truffle pie
Men
1. Frank Brenner
2. Dr. William Rugely
3. Kevin Elstner
Women
1. Laurie Anderson
2. Betty Watson
3. Mary Ann Brenner Youth
1. America and Dorothy Chandler
2. Braylee Houston
3. Kensi Berger
5K Fun Run
Runners blasted off for the annual 5K Fun Run hosted by the Rotary Club of Weimar at Weimar Soccer Fields early Saturday morning, May
9. The race had 96 registered participants of whom 85 finished.
The first male finisher was Johnathan Garcia, who placed first across all runners, with a time of
15 minutes and 52 seconds. The first female finisher was Amberlee Munsch, who placed eighth across all runners, with a time of 23 minutes and 10 seconds.
The first-place winners for each age group are: for ages 14 and under, Kase Bubela; for ages 15--
19, Peyton Brown; for ages 20-29, Jonathan Garcia; for ages 30-39, Mason Hubenak; for ages 40-49, Chris Brown; for ages 50-59, Joey Cardenas; for ages 60-69, David Smock; and for ages 70 and above, Mark Cooke.
