$15,000 RAISED FOR ST. JUDE

Kenny Kinsey working a grill on Friday

By LYNDA KINSEY Of The Sun

Team Cone Distributing hosted a smoked Ribs & Boston Butts fundraiser at English Financial on Friday, April 21 to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Hospital.
The event was led by Kenny Kinsey of Cone with the help of Sheriff Jared Miller and Dale Evans of the Sheriff’s Office, English Financial, and Miller Tree Service along with a team of volunteers.
Pre-orders were placed over the past month and 236 Butts and 256 ribs were purchased locally from Mack’s Meats who extended them a very good deal for the fundraising event. They were given a spice rub marinade before being smoked starting on Thursday.
The smokers were brought in by Cone Distributing, Residential Elevators, Centennial Bank and Ryan Laird.
The volunteers worked in shifts on Thursday and throughout the night, and into Friday to fill all the orders.  
According to Kim Boyer of Cone 70% of the sales were directly from Wakulla County and sales were up 30% from last year.
The Cone crew of North Florida have a little fun and friendly competition going  in house with their office in Ocala which also holds this fundraiser – they think they surpassed Ocala this year bringing in nearly $15,000.
Raffle tickets were being sold with the chance to win a Yeti Coolers and the winners were Justin Ward and Lindsey Barfield.