McLEAN'S TOWN, Grand Bahama -- The forty third annual Conch Cracking Festival will be held in the place of its origin, McLean's Town, East Grand Bahama on October 12th, the holiday Monday of Heroes Day. This uniquely Bahamian competition is held as part of a heritage festival for the community of McLean's Town and the school.
The Conch Cracking Committee takes this opportunity to invite the public to join in the fun-filled activities with the residents of this traditional Bahamian fishing village, as an appropriate way to celebrate our Bahamian Heroes Day.
The committee welcomes BTC as a sponsor of this year's event and look forward to their presence at the festival on the 12th October. Conch Cracking competitions, as usual, will dominate the day with various categories from tourists, some of whom may be touching the conch for the first time in their lives; corporate competition; and the big ones: open women and open men championships.
This year a special invitation is being extended to companies throughout Grand Bahama to send one or more employees from their companies to represent them in the corporate category. Crowning in this category will give bragging rights as the Corporate Conch Cracking Champion for the year. Let's go Statoil; BTC; Ship Yard; BORCO; ZNS; banks; Cable Bahamas; Grand Bahama Power; Container Port; insurance companies; Gold Rock; police; etc.
There is a desire by the committee and residents to grow and preserve this important event in McLean's Town. Plans are afoot to expand the Conch Cracking Competition to a national championship where the champions from the various Family Islands of The Bahamas will compete for the title of World Champion Conch Cracker.

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