Free event.
Please join us for this fun annual outdoor potluck event at Rotary Park!
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What to Bring: Guests bring any food item they want to bring, enough to share with 6 to 8 people. Main dish, side dish, salad, bread, appetizers, etc. Bring food only. Hosts are providing plates, utensils, cups, drinks, etc.
Bring portable chair and/or blanket to sit on. We form a large circle on the central lawn and eat and mingle and talk. The hosts are providing serving tables. There are a few picnic tables at the park that attendees may eat at, but most everybody sits on the lawn using folding chairs they bring themselves.
In years past, between 50 and 100 people have come to this event. It is a great opportunity to meet neighbors.
There are always many families with young children at this event. (There is a great playground there.) But traditionally, most of the people who come to this event are single individuals (of all ages!) or couples whose children have grown.
Co-organized by the Tempe neighborhood potluck group and the Del Rio Ward. This group has organized this neighborhood potluck event at Rotary Park at this time of year for over ten years (only skipping a couple of years due to the pandemic).
Fun Fact: September 15 is Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie Day. To mark this holiday, the event organizers are bringing butterscotch cinnamon pie for everyone at the event. This important holiday traces its origins to "Undertale," a pixel-style role playing RPG game released in 2015. Read more here. By way of clarification, this is the 11th annual Fall Potluck at Rotary Park organized by the Del Rio Ward. This is the first time that the event has fallen on Butterscotch Cinnamon Pie Day.
Items guests have signed up to bring:
B. H: Quiche
Kelly: Main Dish
M. B: Hushpuppies
S. S: Cookies?
A. G: TBD
B. N: TBD
C. S: Casserole
C. H: dessert
C. W: cookies
C. J: Chicken burrito
D. M: Mac and cheese
D. K: Pumpkin pie
E. J: fried chicken and corn bread
G. M: a vegetable
J. F: ?
K. P: dessert, like cookies or brownies
L. W: pizza
M. P: Side dish
M. M: Not sure yet
M. B: hushpuppies
M. L: Not sure yet
P. H: butterscotch cinnamon pie
R. L: ?
S. S: gluten free dessert
S. M: Dessert
S. J: barley salad
S. C: Salad
T. H: turkey
T. S: Schwartz
C. S: ?
D. T: ?
G. T: ?
J. F: ?
M. S: ?