Thousands visit Camden during Daffodil Festival

Steak cook-off winners Members of TJC Steak Cookers, first place winners of the Camden Daffodil Festival and Garden Tours 10th Annual Championship Steak Cook-Off accept their trophy from cook-off chairman Glenn David Woods Saturday night. Shown above are, front row, from left, TJC Steak Cookers members John Ellis and Jonathan Gilliland, Woods, and TJC Steak Cookers member Kiko Rector.

As a matter of policy. officials in Washington, D.C. won’t disclose crowd estimates at rallies because of national security, so the media has learned to measure a crowd based on the amount of trash it leaves behind.

If a lot of trash is an indication of a large crowd, the 17th Annual Camden Daffodil Festival and Garden Tour set an attendance record this year.

“We worked steady from eight to five Friday and again on Saturday,” said Camden parks supervisor Nathion Jenkins. “We worked to about 11 (p.m.) Saturday.”

Jenkins said he couldn’t estimate the total wei...

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March, 2010