Davenport — Like many other Quad-Cities events impacted this year by Covid-19, the German American Heritage Center in Davenport will hold its third-annual Best of the Wurst Sausage Competition virtually next month.

Out of an abundance of caution, this year’s Best of the Wurst will be a special, socially distanced event, rather than the usual in-person festival. You can support Best of the Wurst vendors throughout the month of August, vote for your favorite vendor, and enter to win special prizes. On Saturday, Aug. 29th at 2 p.m., GAHC will announce the contest winner on Facebook Live.

Here’s how it works:

1. Visit participating vendors and make a purchase any time before Aug. 29.
2. When you make your purchase, you will receive a ticket representing that vendor.
3. Cast your vote by giving us the ticket of your favorite vendor (mail it to 712 W. 2^nd, Davenport, IA 52802, drop it in the GAHC mailbox, bring it by in person, etc.)

Tag GAHC in your photo of your tickets from all participating vendors and use the hashtag #bestofthewurstqc on Facebook and Instagram and receive a free family pass to GAHC and be entered to win a special sausage gift basket with products from each of the vendors!

The participating vendors include Jerry’s Market, Katy’s Import Foods, Scherer Custom Meats, and Gollick’s Meat Market.

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Jonathan Turner

Jonathan Turner -- who has called the Quad Cities home since 1995 -- has decades of experience as a professional journalist and pianist. His experience writing for daily newspapers, public radio and local TV encompasses a wide range of subjects, including the arts, politics, education, economic development, historic preservation, business, and tourism.

Jonathan most loves writing about music and the arts (which he now does as a freelancer for the River Cities Reader and Visit Quad Cities). He has a passion for accompanying musicals, singers, choirs and instrumentalists, including playing for QC Music Guild's 2023 productions of RENT and SWEENEY TODD. He is assistant music director and accompanist for the spring 2025 Music Guild show, ESCAPE TO MARGARITAVILLE. He wrote an original musical based on The Book of Job, which premiered at Playcrafters in 2010. Jonathan penned a 175-page history book about downtown Davenport, that was published by The History Press in 2016, and a travel guide about the QC published by Reedy Press in 2022.