MONDAY - October 16, 2006

21st Annual ILLINOIS Chillifest

CHILLINOIS REGIONAL

TAYLORVILLE, IL.

OCT. 14

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The 21st Annual Chillifest was held this past weekend "On the Square" in Taylorville, IL.

This local community event is presented by the Greater Taylorville Chamber of Commerce

as a fund raiser for the Chamber's many activities through out the year. The Chamber is a not for profit organization.

The Chillifest is a 2 day event featuring food, crafts, entertainment, cars and of course Chilli.

And lots of chili is served with over 300 gallons offered up to the public as well as more than

5,000 free samples handed out by the chili contestants.

Crowd estimates were to early to complete, however, estimates were in the 10,000 to 12,000 people. There was also a record number of contestants for the cookoffs each day.

There was an endless stream of activities all weekend with 2 stages offering up Great entertainment all weekend. New this year was the children's stage that was just very rewarding and fun. Go to www.chillifestinfo.com for more of the events and photos.

Tom Calvert (Chief Judge) and Amy Winans (Chief Scorekeeper) did an excellent job of keeping things running smoothly all weekend.

Many, many thanks goes to all of the chillifest members for all of there hard work as volunteers for Chillifest. Kelly Younker and Lori Funderburk (Chillifest CO-Chairpersons) put together just a great group that all pull together to make it all happen.

Now about the chilli cookoff......a record 43 cooks from 8 states turned out for Saturdays Chillinois Regional with another record 30 chilli cooks competing in Sunday's Central States Regional.

Thanks to all the Chilli cooks and judges for helping make this another successful Chillifest.

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CHILLINOIS REGIONAL

SAT. OCT. 14

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SALSA 16 contestants

10 judges

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5th = Greg Virant 5 pts (Omaha, TN.)

4th = Bill Donovan 5 pts (Cincinnati, OH) won tie break

3rd = Julie Netser 6 pts (Seymour, IN.)

2nd = Mike Goodman 6 pts (Pewaukee, WI.) won tie break

1st = Charlie Ward 8 pts (Mountain Home, ID.)

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CHILLI 43 contestants

30 judges

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5th = Gail Donovan 6 pts (Cincinnati, OH.)

4th = Jill Simmons 7 pts (Cordova, TN.)

3rd = Jean Simmons 8 pts (Florissant, MO.)

2nd = Jerry Simmons 9 pts (Florissant, MO.)

1st Jim Schmedeke 11 pts (Clinton, IL.)

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CENTRAL STATES REGIONAL

SUN. OCT. 15

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SALSA 10 contestants

8 judges

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5th = Gail Donovan 5 pts (Cincinnati, OH)

4th = Bill Donovan 6 pts ( Cincinnati, OH)

3rd = Mike Goodman 7 pts (Pewuakee, WI.)

2nd = Linda Curtin 8 pts (Taylorville, IL.)

1st = Jeff Netser 9 pts (Seymour, IN.)

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CHILLI 30 contestants

23 judges

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5th = Charlie Ward 5 pts (Mountain Home, ID.)

4th = Norman "Kojack" Melancon 6 pts (Gonzales, LA.)

3rd = Jim Weller 6 pts (Bloomfield Hills, MI)

2nd = Jill Simmons 6 pts (Corova, TN.) won tie break

1st = Bill Donovan 10 pts (Cincinnati, OH.)

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The winners of the 4 different contest this past weekend are all qualified for the 2007 World's Championship ICS Chili Cookoff

Congratulations to all of the contestants.......They are all winners!

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State of Oklahoma Championship Chili Cookoff – Winners

We had 20 cooks at our event and everyone did a great job!

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People's Choice Winner

Honey Jones from Canyon Lake, Texas

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Best Decorated Booth

Bruce Jones from Canyon Lake, Texas

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SALSA

1st Place - Bruce Jones from Canyon Lake, Texas

2nd Place - Ruth Ann Dysart from Weatherford, Oklahoma

3rd Place - Honey Jones from Canyon Lake, Texas

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RED CHILI

1st Place - Peggy Cravey from Soper, Oklahoma

2nd Place - David Ellis from Wichita, Kansas (Bandito Chili Group)

3rd Place - Cecil Little from Clayton, Oklahoma (The Range Rider)

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Sally Ashby
Eufaula Area Chamber of Commerce
(918) 689-2791
Fax: (918) 689-2791
www.eufaulachamberofcommerce.com

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Radio broadcast about ICS World’s Championships info .

Received a call from Martin Wells the gentleman who was recording cooks for the Only A Game radio program. The program played on October 14th, but you can go to their web site www.onlyagame.org to look at the photos and heard the interviews. When you click on the button for listening to the program, it starts off with sports news, but you can fast forward about 2/3 through the broadcast (at about 39.44 on the time counter) and the chili news starts.

Debbie Eiland Turner (alias Mary Turner as per one of the photo captions)

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Ormly's camera

Ormly's camera was found with the items we took to Omaha for him and it was returned to him yesterday!

Thanks

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Dennis and Allene Macklin

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UTAH STATE Oct 21 is FAST APPROACHING, are you ready?.

And Jeff says that this years Utah State is going to be BIGGER and BETTER with more FUN.

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