60 years of fun, served with fish
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The kitchen lines up baskets of fish at the South Beloit Legion. The auxiliary recently marked six decades of catering to area’s fish-fry fanatics.
SOUTH BELOIT — Friday-night fish-fry aficionados usually have very specific reasons for why the fry they frequent is the best around.
For those who head to the South Beloit American Legion for their weekly fix, those reasons are coleslaw, fish and family tradition.
“We have a knock-dead coleslaw, which we’ve made for years,” said American Legion Auxiliary member Debbie Sly, of Rockton. “That’s a secret recipe. I can’t tell you, or I’ll have to kill you,” she joked.
A nearby diner agreed: “It’s the best in the world!”
If it is, it’s because the Legion auxiliary has had decades of practice. Its fish fry now is in its 60th year, and customers and auxiliary members alike agree that it’s bigger and better than ever.
A South Beloit couple founded the Legion post in 1949, and they ran it until it got too big for two people. At that point, the auxiliary — comprised of the wives, sisters, daughters, grandaughters and mothers of veterans — took over.
“We’ve gotten bigger, much bigger,” said Auxiliary President Diane Brown of Rockton.
Read the full story in the Sept. 20, 2009 e-edition of The Stateline News, turn to page 8.
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