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Moment: Cooking for a cause: Grillmasters support Ronald McDonald House

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A bunch of men cooking together in one kitchen would seem like a recipe for chaos.

But for the better part of two decades, a group of golfing buddies from Hixson has been doing just that at the Ronald McDonald House Charities in Chattanooga.

They call themselves the “Hixson Grillmasters.”

The Ronald McDonald House, a home away from home for families of critically or chronically ill children, serves dinner cooked by volunteers every night for the families staying there, said Jane Kaylor, president and CEO of Ronald McDonald House Charities.

“The last six to nine months has been our busiest months ever, since the house opened in 1990,” Kaylor said. “We’ve been 100 percent occupied. A lot of the families have had siblings with them, so we’ve been really busy.”