CLICK FOR 2020 WINTER CARNIVAL EVENTS Annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Kickoff Not Deferred By Today’s Snow The First Baptist Church of Cooperstown’s annual Soup ‘n’ Chili Luncheon, the traditional kickoff of the annual Winter Carnival, went off today as scheduled despite 3-4 inches of wet snowfall and occasional short power outages. Above, Pastor Joe Perdue and wife Julie, right, chat with Jan McGraw, a member of the 21 Elm St. congregation. In the background is Gail Sliter, overseeing the voluntary…
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2019 COOPERSTOWN WINTER CARNIVAL Soup R’ Chili Served ’til 2 As Festive Weekend Starts As it has for more than a quarter-century, the Cooperstown Winter Carnival begins when Dick Sliter declares, “Soup’s on!” The carnival’s traditional first event, the Soup R’ Chili luncheon at the First Baptist Church, 21 Elm St., is underway until 2 p.m. (and again 11 a.m.-2 p.m. Saturday). Sliter, a retired pastor who came out of retirement in the past year to fill in at the…