Uniontown sausage feed serves 1,700

A crowd of roughly 1,700 munched away on Uniontown sausage at the 57th annual sausage feed March 7.

Approximately 1,750 pounds of raw pork was squeezed into links to make more than 6,800 sausages.

They were consumed by people from small towns in the area, the Lewiston/Clarkston Valley and Spokane. Even license plates from Canada were seen.

“Boy, I tell you that meat was ungoshly good. It made good sausage,” said life-long Uniontown resident Ken Oenning, who has been stuffing sausages for the event for more than 40 years.

Oenning said the meat this year was the best he has ever seen.

“We just had one super-duper day. The crowd came from all over. We just fed them all we could. We had a real good crowd,” Oenning said.

A team of about 30 volunteers from Uniontown came out in force last week to make the sausages. The pork came in the form of pork shoulder butt cuts from Costco.

For three hours, the team ground up all 1,750 pounds of sausage

Then they mixed in the special, and very secret, combination of spices used every year in Uniontown sausages since the fundraiser began 57 years ago.

“We cook it in big roasters, green beans, butter on mashed potatoes and sauerkraut and then we have pie,” Oenning said.

Proceeds from the fundraiser go to support the city’s community building. The net amount is expected to be known in about a month after costs are determined and subtracted from admission which was $10 for adults, $6 for adolescents and $1 for younger children.