Chilkat Valley News - Serving Haines and Klukwan, Alaska since 1966

/home/cms_data/dfault/photos/stories/id/4/6/16846/s_ERRORZak Acquistapace chops potatoes and Jessica Edwards takes them to boil at the Harriet Hall kitchen Wednesday. Fair employees and volunteers started preparing food Monday for the 11th Annual Fishermen's Barbecue on Saturday, June 16 at the fairgrounds. Expecting to serve 2,400 people, the group prepared 1,120 pounds of sockeye and 500 pounds of rockfish that will be barbecued with 60 pounds of butter and 50 pounds of brown sugar, 600 pounds of potatoes, 500 pounds of lettuce, 8 gallons of salad dressing, 70 cans of baked beans, 36 heads of celery and 24 sheet cakes using about 50 pounds of rhubarb. Natalie Helms photo.