Lancaster Sertoma Blessings of Hope World’s LARGEST Chicken BBQ is returning to Long’s Park on Saturday, May 18. Enjoy a day of activities and entertainment (rain or shine) from 10:00am-6:00pm. This is fun everyone will enjoy, so bring your family and friends, and relax the day away in lovely Long’s Park.

WJTL’s Kids Cookie Break will be live on location until Noon with giveaways and prizes. Look for us at the Family Fun Area. We’ll be near the baseball fields and Park City Tunnel entrance.

The 2019 menu features

• Half Chicken, Barbecued in our Special Sauce
• Herr’s Potato Chips
• Herr’s Pretzels
• Kegel’s Produce / DOLE Petite Banana
• Pepperidge Farm Dinner Roll
• Turkey Hill Beverage
• Hershey’s Twizzlers Candy
• Turkey Hill Ice Cream
• Cherry Hill Orchard / Applesauce
• Utensils, Napkin, Salt & Pepper

For full event details, click here.

Listen all day on Monday, April 29 to win a pair of Chicken BBQ Meal Tickets. Keep our number handy 717-392-3690.

Lancaster Sertoma Blessings of Hope World’s LARGEST Chicken BBQ is returning to Long’s Park on Saturday, May 18. Enjoy a day of activities and entertainment (rain or shine) from 10:00am-6:00pm. This is fun everyone will enjoy, so bring your family and friends, and relax the day away in lovely Long’s Park.

WJTL’s Kids Cookie Break will be live on location until Noon with giveaways and prizes. Look for us at the Family Fun Area. We’ll be near the baseball fields and Park City Tunnel entrance.

Discounted Chicken BBQ tickets can be purchased at participating Turkey Hill Minit Markets. There will be convenient drive-thru lanes to get your complete Chicken Dinners to take home. Pick-up lines have been DOUBLED for even faster service!  Either way, you are sure to enjoy this annual fundraising event, certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the World’s LARGEST Chicken BBQ!

All proceeds benefit the beautification, upkeep and improvement of Long’s Park, playgrounds for blind and handicapped children, Kids’ Kamp, Speech & Hearing Projects, Naturalization Day Receptions, quality care for animals in the Petting Zoo & more! 

The 2019 menu features

• Half Chicken, Barbecued in our Special Sauce
• Herr’s Potato Chips
• Herr’s Pretzels
• Kegel’s Produce / DOLE Petite Banana
• Pepperidge Farm Dinner Roll
• Turkey Hill Beverage
• Hershey’s Twizzlers Candy
• Turkey Hill Ice Cream
• Cherry Hill Orchard / Applesauce
• Utensils, Napkin, Salt & Pepper

For full event details, click here.

Listen on Monday, April 29 for your chance to win chicken bbq tickets!

The Sertoma Chicken BBQ is coming up on Saturday, May 16^th at Long’s Park in Lancaster! WJTL will broadcast live all day starting with Lisa Landis and the Kids Cookie Break from 9 a.m. – Noon. Then, we’ll have live music and entertainment on the Weaver’s Garage Stage including the 2015 Talent Challenge!

Today and tomorrow (Thursday and Friday, May 14 & 15 2015) we’re giving you the chance to call in and win a pair of dinners!

Each meal includes a half chicken, Herr’s chips, Dole banana, Charles & Alice Applesauce, Pepperidge Farm dinner roll, Hershey’s Twizzlers Candy and Turkey Hill beverage and ice cream! Tune in to WJTL and listen for your time to call! Our number is 717-392-FM90.

We had a blast at the 61st Sertoma Chicken BBQ!  The weather was beautiful, the chicken was delicious and the entertainment on the Weaver’s Garage Stage was unbeatable!  (Click here to see our photos from the day.)

Congratulations to the Top 3 winners in the 2014 Talent Challenge, as voted by the audience:

1st Place: Super Marimbros, William and Caleb (marimba players)

2nd Place: The Sentimentals (a cappella vocal ensemble)

3rd Place: Sarah, Faith, Carter  (Irish Dancers)

Prizes were made possible by DavCo Advertising, meeting printing and promotional product needs from concept to completion. 800-283-2826

May 17, 18 & 19, 2013

5) Tonight (Friday May 17) from 7-9:30pm at the Community Room on Prince in Lancaster – a Film Screening of the movie Blue Like Jazz followed by discussion around the themes within the movie.  Blue Like Jazz is adapted from the book by author Donald Miller and Produced and Directed by Steve Taylor. More info: 717-572-5914

4) Children of the World Choir will perform at Linville Hill School, Kinzer Rd., Paradise, Sunday evening, (May 19) at 7pm.   The choir is made up of disadvantaged and orphaned children from several countries around the globe.  More info: 717.687.5118

3) Emazing Grace (Emily & Grace) who have a song on the KCB4 cd, will be playing Christian Bluegrass on Sunday evening (May 19)7pm at the Church of God of Landisville.  A free will offering will be taken for the band. More info: 717-898-8144

2) Freedom Fun Fair tomorrow(Saturday, May 18)10am-2pm at Lebanon Valley Bible Church on the front lawn, Horseshoe Pike, Lebanon. Free Food, face painting, Angry Birds Booth, bounce houses, and more. More info: lvbiblechurch.org

1) 60th Annual Sertoma Chicken Barbecue, tomorrow (Saturday, May 18) 10am-6pm at Long’s Park, Lancaster – Kids Cookie Break Broadcasting Live, Concerts on the Weaver’s Garage Stage by Dan and Lauren Smith Band, Jeremiah Coyne Band, The Talent Challenge and more. Proceeds from the Chicken Barbecue meals benefits Long’s Park and it’s many benefits to kids and the community. More info: lancastersertomabbq.com

We’re on the lookout for talented WJTL listeners–we know you’re out there!  We want to see and hear your talents.  We encourage musicians to enter, but the WJTL Talent Challenge is wide open to any skill that has the potential to impress, entertain or amuse our crowd at Sertoma!  Individual performers and groups may enter.  10 contestants will be chosen to perform their talent on the Weaver’s Garage Stage at the 60th annual Sertoma Chicken BBQ in Long’s Park in Lancaster on Saturday, May 18th (in the afternoon).  Then, the audience gets to vote on their favorite performer–and we’ll award Visa Gift Cards to the Top 3!  $500 for 1st place, $250 for 2nd place and $100 for 3rd place.

Prizes are made possible by the Rohrer Family Of Companies!

Rohrer’s One Hour Heating and Air Conditioning

Benjamin Franklin the Punctual Plumber

Mister Sparky, America’s On-Time Electrician

HOW TO ENTER:

Email your .mp3,  movie file or You Tube link to Contest@WJTL.com or mail your CD or DVD to WJTL, 1875 Junction Road, Manheim, PA 17545.  (Drop-offs must be during office hours: 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. weekedays.) Be sure to tell us a little about yourself and your talent when you enter and include your contact information in your entry. Contest entry material (including CDs, DVDs, photos, etc.) will not be returned.  There are no age restrictions, but kids under 18 must have their parents’ permission before entering.

The deadline to enter is midnight on Tuesday, May 07, 2013.  We’ll announce the 10 contestants on the air during the 5:00 p.m. hour on Friday, May 10, 2013. (Contestants will also be contacted directly by WJTL.)

RULES, etc.:

**Comments left on this blog post will not count as entries.**

**Only one entry per contestant.**

**Past Talent Challenge grand prize winners are not eligible to enter.**

**Review WJTL’s contest rules here.**