Euclid’s Azman Quality Meats Earns Sausage Titles at Polka Hall of Fame Festival

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  • Azman Quality Meats of Euclid, Ohio, took both the People’s Choice and the juried Best of Fest awards at the 13th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival hosted by the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum on Wednesday, September 14, 2016, at SNPJ Farm in Kirtland, Ohio. Ray Zalokar, Polka Hall of Fame Board member; WINT-FM radio host Tony Petkovsek; Marie Azman; Bill Azman; Mark Habat, Vice President, Polka Hall of Fame; Joe Valencic, President, Polka Hall of Fame.

  • The Polka Hall of Fame's Slovenian Sausage Festival jury was made up of Andrej Rode, Consul General of Slovenia; Plain Dealer food writer Debbi Snook; Tom Schiltz, Cleveland Arts Prize trustee; Willoughby attorney Ronald Zele; Kirsten Holzheimer Gail, mayor of Euclid; attorney Scott Zele; Jen Picciano of WOIO-TV;  and butchers Melissa Khoury and Penny Barend of Saucisson Cleveland. 

  • Canada’s Polka King Walter Ostanek was joined on stage by Euclid drummer Mark Habat, Dayton accordionist Frank Svet and Euclid bass player Denny Bucar at the 13th annual Slovenian Sausage Festival in support of the National Cleveland-Style Polka Hall of Fame and Museum at SNPJ Farm in Kirtland, Ohio, on Wednesday, September 14, 2016.

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