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Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Reports “Full Frontal BBQ” Results From Crow River Championship BBQ Challenge, 2009
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, sponsors the BBQ team “Full Frontal BBQ” and presents these results from the “Crow River Championship BBQ Challenge” on July 19th, 2009.
Full Frontal BBQ is a competition BBQ team lead by team captain (and one of Highlight’s owners) Don Bickford.
There are 5 “Championship” level BBQ events in MN:
- MN in May, Austin, MN
- Smokin’ In Steele, Owatonna, MN
- Crow River Challenge, Watertown, MN
- Big Island BBQ, Albert Lea, MN
- SMSU Smokefest, Marshall, MN
The Crow River Challenge is 3 years old and Full Frontal has been there since the inception! Hosted by the Watertown, MN Lions, and our friend and printing & BBQ mentor Mike Crom of Applied Graphics, this one is especially fun for us. While Lisa Bickford (author of this blog, wife of Don Bickford, and co-owner of Highlight) is always on hand to help with the “presentation” component of the competition, friends Scott Krynski and Larry Manoleff have rounded out the team at this event all 3 years. The icing on the cake (or maybe the sauce on the ribs is a more appropriate metaphor??) this year was that our good friend and paper-sales-rep-extraordinaire Dan Jones and his buddy Kent Berg serenaded the team on banjo and guitar during the Friday night chili contest.
Besides a ton-o-fun, the Full Frontal Bbq team took home 2 awards:
- 1st place in brisket – woo-hooo!!!!
- 9th place overall in a field of 39 championship-level competitors
Don’s on a little BBQ contest sebatical for a couple months, but will keep perfecting the craft by bbqing for a few events for friends and organizations we support, including the Edison High School Sports Foundation Alumni Golf Tournament. (He’s a 1980 graduate of Edison – go Tommies!) This fall will include another Highlight Printing “Smokin’ in the Summer” thank-you bbq for clients, possibly a few more competitions, and …????
You can check out Don’s tweets @: http://twitter.com/FullFrontalBbq
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry and a lover of all things printed. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Reports “Full Frontal BBQ” Results From Smokin’ In Steele BBQ Competition, 2009
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, sponsors the BBQ team “Full Frontal BBQ” and presents these results from the “Smokin’ In Steele” BBQ competition on May 27th, 2009.
Full Frontal BBQ is a competition BBQ team lead by team captain (and one of Highlight’s owners) Don Bickford.
There are 5 “Championship” level BBQ events in MN:
- MN in May, Austin, MN
- Smokin’ In Steele, Owatonna, MN
- Crow River Challenge, Watertown, MN
- Big Island BBQ, Albert Lea, MN
- SMSU Smokefest, Marshall, MN
This was the team’s first time at this event and one they are sure to attend again. There was a beautiful tree-shaded grassy common area with BBQ vending, Harmonica lessons for the kids, Garden Tractor pulling contests, and Blues Music…all as a fund raiser for Special Olympics. Don and team took home 3 plaques:
- Lucky Number 13 in chicken
- 4th place in Ribs
- 10th place in Brisket
- 7th place overall in a field of 45 very tough competitors!
Team member Lisa Bickford had this to say, “This was probably my favorite event ever – close to home (but far enough that I could nap on the way, which always starts a trip off right!), friendly people, and it was very well managed. But mostly I appreciated the beautiful park-like setting and that my girls got to catch up with a girl they played with at a competition last year – the daughter of team “Smokin’ Pelletheads”: http://www.smokinpelletheads.com/Home_Page.html
The next competition is the Crow River Challenge in July. Don will keep his BBQ skills sharp in anticipation of that event by cooking a few graduation parties for friends, catering the 5th annual “Smokin’ in the Summer Thank-You BBQ” for Highlight Printing and practice, practice, practice.
You can check out Don’s tweets @: http://twitter.com/FullFrontalBbq
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry and a lover of all things printed. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Reports “Full Frontal BBQ” Results From The Great American BBQ Competition, 2009
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, sponsors the BBQ team “Full Frontal BBQ” and presents these results from the Great American BBQ competition on May 23rd, 2009.
Full Frontal BBQ is a competition BBQ team lead by team captain Don Bickford.
Because of his Grand Champion winnings last season, Don and his team qualified for the Great American BBQ competition that was held this past weekend in Kansas City, KS. This is one of the “biggie” national competitions and we are proud to annouce that Full Frontal BBQ took home 3 ribbons: chicken, pork, and brisket.
Every KCBS (Kansas City BBQ Society) sanctioned BBQ competition includes these 4 categories: chicken, ribs, pork shoulder (commonly called pork butt…don’t ask me why) and beef brisket.
Don had this to say, “Kansas was beautiful, the event was very well managed, and we had great weather. The fun thing about this event in particular is that it was part of a festival and had a carnival with rides that my kids could enjoy. It’s always great to meet other BBQ teams from around the country and to get reacquainted with teams we have met along the way.”
We at Highlight Printing are fortunate enough to have Don cater our client thank-you BBQ’s twice each summer. We call it “Smokin’ In The Summer” and this is our 5th year of hosting these events.
Check out Don’s tweets @: http://twitter.com/FullFrontalBbq
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry and a lover of all things printed. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
Highlight Printing, Minneapolis, MN: Reports “Full Frontal BBQ” Results From MN in May BBQ Competition, 2009
Highlight Printing, a local printer near downtown Mpls, sponsors the BBQ team “Full Frontal BBQ” and presents these results from the “Minnesota in May” BBQ competition on May 16th, 2009.
Full Frontal BBQ is a competition BBQ team lead by team captain Don Bickford.
There are 5 “Championship” level BBQ events in MN:
- MN in May, Austin, MN
- Smokin’ In Steele, Owatonna, MN
- Crow River Challenge, Watertown, MN
- Big Island BBQ, Albert Lea, MN
- SMSU Smokefest, Marshall, MN
MN in May was Full Frontal BBQ’s first KCBS sanctioned Grand Champion win in the 2008 season, and while Don and the team didn’t go home with the Grand Champion trophy this year, they did go home with 2 prizes that are almost as much fun: 2nd place in the “chalk it up to fun” SPAM category (the prize was a pair of glow in the dark boxer shorts, among other things). And Don’s 9 year old daughter, Samantha, took home her first “Kid’s Que” award – 4th place in chicken! Forget printing…the next generation is going to make a living with BBQ! (Oh, and Full Frontal did take home a ribbon in the “pork” category.)
Don had this to say, “Minnesota in May is one of my favorite events – it’s a great way to kick off the BBQ season. There were 71 teams participating this year! The Highlight for me was hearing Samantha’s name called. We had been working for weeks, and she had to cook in the rain…she was a trooper. Since she had recently recovered from having 2 broken arms, her team name was “Broken Bones BBQ”. That’s the thing about BBQ, there is never a shortage of fun!”
We at Highlight Printing are fortunate enough to have Don cater our client thank-you BBQ’s twice each summer. We call it “Smokin’ In The Summer” and this is our 5th year of hosting these events.
Check out Don’s tweets @: http://twitter.com/FullFrontalBbq
The author, Lisa Bickford, president of Highlight Printing, is a veteran of the printing industry and a lover of all things printed. Since 1984 she has worked her way up through many areas of the industry before acquiring Highlight Printing in 1996 with her husband Don, who has also been in printing since the early 80’s. The things she continues to find most satisfying are the wonderful business relationships that have developed with clients, vendors, & co-workers, and the energy that is created from challenge resolution. You can email her directly at lisab@highlightprinting.com
This Printing Blog was launched in November, 2008, as a vehicle to share ideas, information, and innovationsTo see other topics within this blog, click HERE.
