Everyone’s a Scotsman when it’s Robbie Burns Night in Sedgewick

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Robbie Burns would have been proud if he could have looked in on the Sedgewick Legion on Saturday, Jan 26, as a full house celebrated his day with all due respect and honour to the Scottish poet.

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Where else could you go on a cold January evening to find more men than women wearing skirts? Och, sorry, kilts.

Organizers of the sixth annual Robbie Burns Evening arranged everything from Scottish heather on the programs to Haggis on the menu.

Not only was Haggis, a concoction of sheep’s pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal’s stomach and simmered for approximately three hours, on the menu, it was also piped into the room as an honoured guest, by pipers Doug Brown, Devan Burden, Mark Burden, with Jim McLead on drums, with Karen Robinson carrying the haggis, and Patrick Spiers the scotch whiskey later used to toast.

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Read the rest of the entry in the January 29, 2013 Edition of The Community Press, on newsstands now!