Sunday - June 11, 2006

5th ANNUAL

SANGAMON COUNTY FAIR REGIONAL

CHILI COOKOFF

JUNE 17, 2006

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The Sangamon County Fair Board Directors again invite you to their Regional Chili cookoff sanctioned by the International Chili Society. The Sangamon County Fair is one of the largest Ag and Expo fairs in Illinois. Friday night entertainment will be “Trace Adkins” and Saturday night entertainment will be “Joe Nichols” with the Bellamy Bros. in the Grandstand. Plan to join in for the fun and entertainment both evenings. Visit the web site at www.sangcofair.com

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Winners of all three categories of Salsa, Verde, and Red Chili will qualify for the World’s Championship Chili contest to be held in October 6,7& 8, 2006 at the Lewis and Clark Landing in Omaha, NE.

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As an important reminder, when coming to New Berlin, IL. to the County fair grounds, you will need to be pre-registered for the cookoff so that we may give you and one assistant a free gate pass into the fair grounds. Your name will be on a list for free entry at Gate 2 after registering for the cookoff. Those who register late will have to pay a $10 gate entry.

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As usual, you will not need tables, chairs, coverings etc. as these will be provided for you. We will be cooking under the open air pavilion next to the Expo center.

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Decorating your area with your personal chili designs, ideas, and fun things is highly recommended.

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The Sangamon County Health Dept. requires all public events that handle food to the public to be permitted. By registering early we can have your temporary permits registered for you at no cost to you. We will cover the permit cost. There are a few items that you will need to cover as follows:

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1) Receipt for your meat.

2) Head covering. (hat, etc.)

3) Food handlers gloves

4) Paper towels

5) Clean work station area

6) Good sanitation habits

7) Proper handling of meat temperatures (fresh product and properly cooled in transit before cooking and maintain proper heat during cooking)

8) A thermometer

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We will have a sanitation station set up for clean up. We will also provide you with plastic soufflé cups and spoons for public sampling.

For those of you that have been there, you know that this is a fun day and a very easy cookoff to attend. Those that have not, PLEASE join us for an exciting chili cookoff day

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New Blog for Marilee & Joe Barrett

High Country Specialities - Joe and Marilee Barrett have a blog with ordering info, prices and more for Green Chili Spices and other Chili related stuff . The address is http://hcspecialities.blogspot.com/ The site is up and running with additional postings to be added. They can also look for information on the upcoming IDAHO STATE CHILI COOKOFF ON JULY 29, 2006 IN KELLOGG, IDAHO Thanks for your help, Joe and Marilee Barrett

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Smoke on the Water Chili Cook-off Prize Money - Jim Harlan

I am the chairman of the 2006 Charleston Smoke on the Water Chili Cook-off. The following are the prizes we have this year. The cook-off is Saturday June 17, 2006. For more information please visit our website at www.smokeonthewater.org or call me at 1-800-754-0293.615. Thank you, Jim Harlan

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Red
1st $2000 and award from Martina Stained Glass Studio
2nd $600
3rd $300
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Green
1st $700 and award from Martina Stained Glass Studio
2nd $250
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Salsa
1st $100
2nd $50
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People's Choice $150
Hot Peppers Contest and award from Martina Stained Glass Studio
Best of Charleston $175
Best Booth $ 100
Smoke on the Water logo contest winner $150.00
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Total $4575

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SNOWMASS SETS CROWD AND COOK RECORDS

The Snowmass/Aspen B2B cookoffs on June 9 & 10 produced a record number of cooks (over 20) participating in the three categories and record hungry thirsty throngs each day.

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Located right on the Snowmass ski mountain the organizers, in only their third year, have built the event, Snowmass Chili & Brew Fest, into a top tourist draw with every room in town sellilng out. The cooks were treated with fabulous trophies, record prize money, and pre-cooked sponsor People's Choice Chili. Even with this additional 200 gallons, the crowd hungered for even more.

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No cook went thirsty though with over 75 different micro brews on tap for us to try! We were even served at our booth some cool brews on Saturday by the staff.

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The winners: Friday: Verde, Erika Knutson taking home $500 with Mike Rook raking in the big prize, $1,000 for Red PLUS tops in Salsa. What a day for Mike.

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His wife joined him the next day and almost duplicated his feat by wining Salsa and lost the tie-breaker in Red to Lynn Kost-Virant. Not only did Lynn take home the custom trophy, she also won her second district to make it to the World's Finals. Paul Cordova took top honors in Verde to again return to the World's.

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Due to several cooks having qualified earlier, the cookoff feel just three cooks short of hitting the magical 20 on day two in red to make Regional status next year. To draw even more cooks and to make serving the huge crowd easier, the organizers are already developing plans to improve the prize money and ease of serving another record crowd in 2007.

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Spend a few days in the cool Colorado mountains at one of the top tourist spots in the country next June.

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Wildomar Cook-Off Results - Karen Angotti

Red Chili 11 Cooks

Dave Lukasiak 5th Place Honorabe Mention

Nibs Waters 4th Place Honarabel Memtion

Don Hammes 3rd Place

Bill Woodring 2nd Place

Kyra Scneider !st Place

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Chili Verde 7 cooks

Sachiko Brecke 2nd Place

Mike Austin 1st Place

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Salsa 7 entries

Mike Austin 2nd Place

Ray Reyes 1st Place

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Best Booth

Mike Austin

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Peoples Choice Chili

Don Hammes

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South Dakota State Results - Bob Plager

Salsa- 7 entries

3^rd Rick Kaan MY

2^nd Larry Weltikol NV

1^st Darol Wetzel MT

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Verde - 10 entries

3^rd Peggy Martin NV

2^nd Larry Weltokol NV

1^st Darol Wetzel MT Now a Hat Trick Winner

ICS RED 11 entries

4^th Jan Sprouse SD

3^rd Al Henry CO

2^nd Larry Weltikol NV

1^st Peggy Kaan WY

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