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| Written by Doug Carder | |||
| Wednesday, 24 December 2008 09:00 | |||
 Who says you can’t find anything to do on a cold winter night in Louisburg? You would be hard-pressed to find a more entertaining evening than the one I spent Saturday at Louisburg Senior Center. Carmen Price and her husband, Stacy, along with a host of family, friends and National Honor Society high school students, put on the center’s annual Christmas dinner and party for about 60 seniors. Stacy Price stayed up until 2 a.m. Saturday smoking brisket, pulled pork and turkey for the dinner that night. “I bought one of those smokers from Neil Spector (Motors), and I’ve been having fun with it. We normally just serve turkey at this dinner, but I had several people ask me if I was going to smoke something, so I decided to go ahead,” he said. Tom Steger, whose wife, Beverly, is director of the senior center, provided a little jab at his longtime friend and business associate Spector, who has won numerous awards for his barbecue. “We’re going to take Stacy down there and show Neil how it’s done,” a grinning Steger said. Probably as many people raved about Price’s zucchini casserole as his smoked meats. “I’m from the South, and we eat everything fried, fried zucchini, fried okra,” Price said. “Carmen is into healthy eating, and she’s always getting after me for eating too much fried food, so I decided to make zucchini casserole instead. Now, that’s the way I’m always going to make zucchini.” Former Kansas City Royals organist Joetta Moorman and her son, police officer and drummer Woody Bates, entertained the seniors while they dined. Moorman said one of their selections, “Georgia Porcupine,” was Hall of Fame slugger George Brett’s favorite number, and he always wanted her to play it when he came up to bat. The Royals weren’t the only Kansas City team bandied about at the dinner. Chiefs fan Fred Barnes predicted Arrowhead Stadium would have a few empty seats on Sunday as the wind chill was expected to dip below zero. In addition to entertaining the crowd by singing a few Elvis songs, Bates provided some laughter after he and his mom finished their set. Each time he carted out another piece of his drum set, an arctic blast ruffled napkins on the table closest to the door, prompting some of the women at the table to say, “Here comes the air conditioner again.” Bill Kircher’s daughter, Joyce, shivered as she came back inside the center after starting their car. She clutched a pair of fogged-over eyeglasses in her hand. “I watched the temperature drop five degrees in a half-hour this afternoon,” Kircher said. But inside the center, the karaoke singing group Copycats warmed the crowd with their array of Christmas songs. Three members of the group, Wayne Harclerode, L.M. Town and Bill Johns, make up three quarters of the pilots who perform the flyovers at parades and various services and events around Miami County. The threesome also are members of the Country Oaks Band, which closed out the evening with some dancing music. As the Copycats sang, Bob and Beverly Smith turned slowly around the dance floor. The couple said in unison they were having a great time. Bob grinned. “Carmen throws a good party.”
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