{"id":17589,"date":"2017-05-15T09:35:31","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=17589"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:35:33","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:35:33","slug":"rotary-mac-n-cheese-cookoff-to-benefit-local-charities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/?p=17589","title":{"rendered":"Rotary mac n’ cheese cookoff to benefit local charities"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The 6th<\/sup> annual Chester County Mac-n-Cheese Cookoff, money raised supports Rotary initiative community projects, will be held June 4 from noon until 3 p.m. at Park Lane and Pennsylvania Avenue, Downingtown.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are still some openings for participants and we encourage Mac-n-Cheese masters to join the fun and the competition,\u201d said Autumn Katzenmoyer of the Thorndale\/Downingtown Rotary. \u201cWe have activities for the whole family. And we are honored to have an original painting done by Downingtown artist Adrian Martinez as one of our raffle prizes.<\/p>\n

Only 2,000 tickets will be sold for the raffle. The other prizes in the raffle include nine cases of beer and a Growler from Victory Brewing and a Downingtown Date Night package that includes a dinner at Armani\u2019s restaurant, flowers from Flowers by Jena Paige, and chocolate from Kimberton Whole Foods. The tickets cost $10 each or five for $40 and can be purchased from Rotary members and at Creekside Antiques Downingtown by the Brandywine, 35 West Lancaster Avenue, and Love Street Vintage Home, 101 Brandywine Avenue, Downingtown.<\/p>\n

Competitors will start serving at noon and votes will be counted at 3:00 p.m. Music by Couple Days and kids activities, including a moon bounce, will run until 4:00 p.m. The event will include local restaurants, businesses and neighborhood cooks competing against each other for the title \u201cBEST Mac-n-Cheese in Chester County.\u201d<\/p>\n

The cost of the event is $10 and for children aged 6 to 12 the cost is $5. To order event tickets to go http:\/\/www.macncheesecookoff.com\/<\/a>. The raffle tickets are separate from the event tickets. The Mac-n-Cheese Cookoff promotes the use of local food products and encourages sustainable agriculture, while bringing awareness of the availability of local products.<\/p>\n

A panel of judges will judge each mac & cheese dish and the community will vote for winners. A total of ten awards will be provided for the top three finishers in Judge\u2019s Choice, People\u2019s Choice and Kid\u2019s Choice winners and for a new award, Best First Time Competitor. The first place winners will receive $200. The winners can elect to have the prize donated in their name to a non-profit of their choice, aligning with one the Rotary six initiatives, Peace and conflict prevention\/resolution; Disease prevention and treatment; Water and sanitation; Maternal and child health; Basic education and literacy; or Economic and community development.<\/p>\n

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The Thorndale-Downingtown Rotary Club\u00a0was founded in 1995 by Jay Edge to service the Thorndale, Downingtown, and Coatesville communities. For more information, see https:\/\/thorndalerotary.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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The 6th annual Chester County Mac-n-Cheese Cookoff, money raised supports Rotary initiative community projects, will be held June 4 from noon until 3 p.m. at Park Lane and Pennsylvania Avenue, Downingtown. \u201cThere are still some openings for participants and we encourage Mac-n-Cheese masters to join the fun and the competition,\u201d said Autumn Katzenmoyer of the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[4002,6555,6554],"class_list":["post-17589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","tag-fundraiser","tag-mac-n-chees-cookoff","tag-thorndaledowningtown-rotary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17589"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17590,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17589\/revisions\/17590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/17591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coatesvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}