Post by huxbux on Mar 13, 2007 18:51:41 GMT -5
IndyStar.com Metro & State
March 13, 2007
Fundraiser again dishing up much-in-demand raccoon
Hibernia -- After a four-year absence, raccoon is back on the menu for the Hibernia Community Building's fundraiser.
LaVeran Lorenz, 86, has agreed to resume cooking duties for the March 24 event.
"It's not like cleaning a chicken, I'll tell you that," said Dina Woods, who agreed to learn how to clean raccoons for cooking.
Allus Franklin and other hunters in the town on Hibernia Road off Ind. 62, about 20 miles north of Louisville, Ky., have bagged 103 raccoons for the event.
"It's the biggest day in Hibernia, I think," Woods said.
But Lorenz, who had handled much of the raccoon cooking duties for every fundraiser since the early 1950s, begged off after the 2002 event. Since then, the 21 members of the Owen Township Homemakers have prepared chili and ham and beans for fundraisers, but people have pleaded with the cook to bring raccoon back to the table.
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