Gulf Coast Beer and Bacon Festival serves as fundraiser for Mississippi Heroes

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) – Saturday, bacon and beer lovers had the prospect to indulge on their favourite food and drinks in quite a lot of methods.

“Now we have chocolate lined bacon, bacon by itself and sweet bacon,” stated Katherine Sutton. “I do know somebody brings bread pudding they usually in all probability crumble bacon on prime so there’s a lot selection.”

The Gulf Coast Beer and Bacon Pageant offers all kinds of bacon and drinks whereas additionally serving to to fund a company Katherine Sutton finds pricey to her in Mississippi Heroes.

This group highlights those that are taking good care of their family members who can’t assist themselves.

“For household caregivers, they don’t get loads of consideration,” stated Sutton. “They’re caught at residence, so we’re in a position to go in and have a good time them by giving them a therapeutic massage or meals tickets. We simply give them one thing that will get them out of the home.”

The pageant additionally permits native companies to showcase their work.

“Now we have a lot enjoyable with these eating places. They get in entrance of so many individuals plus our distributors and volunteers,” stated Sutton. “They get to speak to them one-on-one and showcase what they’ve and get them to return again to their restaurant. So, it is a enormous advertising alternative for them and nice for enterprise progress.”

This fundraiser for Mississippi Heroes and the chance for native companies was all attainable due to their mascot, Bacon Bit.

“We use him as a catalyst to get folks to share images of their enterprise, so it’s one other solution to market,” stated Sutton. “However we additionally use it for images of our caregiver’s bringing consciousness to caregivers and bringing assets to them that helps them sooner or later.”

Mississippi Heroes will maintain a month-to-month luncheon for caregivers on Friday, March 10.

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