Richard Montz (left) stands on a step ladder as he lifts a strainer from inside a large pot while preparing the meal on Friday afternoon for that night’s Lamesa Rotary Club Scholarship Banquet at Forrest Park Community Center. Helping Montz is club president Brant Stewart. Other club members helping but not pictured were Gary Culp, Don Bethel and Sean Overeynder. The cooks were making authentic Lousiana gumbo for the event. ...