Virtual BBQ and Brew Festival to premiere Friday Published: 23 February 2021 23 February 2021
Yuma, Arizona - The City invites residents and visitors to view this year’s BBQ and Brew Festival, a virtual event, which premiers 4 p.m. Friday, February 26 on the City’s social media platforms and on City 73 TV.
With health and safety restrictions on large gatherings still in place, the festival will go video-only this year to whet the appetite for tasty barbecue. The virtual festival will feature local barbecue and restaurant chefs and interviews with local brewers. The event will also peek inside a local backyard barbecue.
A head-to-head cooking challenge on tri-tip beef pits Mayor Douglas Nicholls and Yuma County Supervisor Jonathan Lines against local restaurant Holy Smokes. Judging the cook-off are former Yuma County Supervisor Russell McCloud, Jennifer Blackwell of Z93 radio, and Keith Boyd of Klein’s Electric.
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Fairgrounds relocating due to MCAS accident-potential zone
YUMA, Ariz. (KYMA, KECY) - Yuma County is home to some of the nation s greatest amenities: agriculture, tourism, and military bases.
What was once a field for growing crops turned into the Yuma County Fairgrounds.
The Yuma County Fairgrounds are in a prime accident-potential zone, located just across the Marine Corps Air Station Yuma (MCAS) street.
Russell McCloud, Yuma County Supervisor, says it s a risk the county is just not willing to take. If an aircraft goes down while there’s people there, especially the fair, it just, it’s horrendous, McCloud explained. I mean, you could imagine.
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As the number of COVID-19 cases spike, the most pressing issue at Yuma Regional Medical Center isnât space. Itâs staffing. YRMC still has enough beds for patients, but not enough nurses or equipment to staff those beds.
Dr. Robert Trenschel, president and CEO of YRMC, on Monday updated the Yuma County Board of Supervisors on the COVID-19 situation at the hospital.
In an earlier meeting, Chairman Tony Reyes asked the hospital to provide a report on the trigger point for opening additional space for COVID-19 patients. âWhen it gets down to it, we only have one facility that really can handle this. Maybe we ought to start thinking about what happens if that facility is overwhelmed,â Reyes said, noting that YRMC already gets overwhelmed every year by the regular flu season.