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$75 a plate Lobster Fest sells out
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A Cajun Coastal Catering staffer carries out a pan of ready to eat lobster at Saturday nights Ripon Chamber of Commerce Foundation Lobster Fest dinner. - photo by Photo by Dave Murphy
Ripon Chamber of Commerce President Tamra Spade couldn’t have been happier with the “sold out” crowd Saturday night at their first Lobster Fest fundraiser staged to support the chamber’s new youth foundation in support of education and efforts to put heart defibrillators into classrooms. Spade said that medical emergencies do occur on school campuses and authorities need to be well prepared for the unexpected. And the need for public speaking programs in the elementary schools is another thing the chamber can offer as well from the foundation coffers, she said.The $75 a ticket cost did not seem to inhibit the diners who gathered at the Ripon Community Center for the Lobster Fest catered by Cajun Coastal Catering.