Thursday - May 25, 2006

Southern California Regional Chili Cookoff - DEBORAH ADAMS

**************THE FIRST 20 COOKS TO *******************

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SIGN UP!!!!!

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WILL BE ALLOWED TO PARK BEHIND THEIR BOOTH

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ATTENTION ALL CHILI VERDE COOKS!!!!!!!!!!

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The prize money for this event on the current flyer is incorrect and will be INCREASING!! We are just waiting for confirmation. WE WILL KNOW EARLY NEXT WEEK!

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To sign up for the cookoff, contact the ICS web site or Call Debbie and Randy @ (760)962-9428.

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Wednesday - May 24, 2006

NEW WEB site for Sespe Creek Chili & Spice Co. - Eileen & Jim Beaty

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We would like to announce that we now have a small web page that has a list of our Powders and a Price List. We have our Phone number and Email address listed for you convenience.

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Look on the RIGHT HAND side of this Blog for the LINK.

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Thanks,

Eileen & Jim

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AZ Chili Cookoff Hotel Info - James McDermott, Chairperson

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ARIZONA STATE CHILI COOKOFF

ICS “Arizona State Championships”

June 18, 2006 ~ Payson, AZ

Available Lodging Suggestions

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The following are lodging suggestions for those who are participating as either judges or cooks in the ICS “Arizona State Championships” Chili Cookoff hosted by Mazatzal Casino:

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PaysonGlo Lodge 1005 S. Beeline Hwy Payson, AZ 85541 (800) 772-9766 $63 Standard ~ $73 Poolside	Days Inn Suites 301A S. Beeline Hwy Payson, AZ 85541 (877) 474-9800 $99.99
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Super 8 Motel (formerly Pueblo Inn) 809 E. Hwy 260 Payson, AZ 85541 (928) 474-5241 *$79.99 Standard ~ *$160.99 Hot tub	Holiday Inn Express 206 South Beeline Hwy Payson, AZ 85541 (800) HOLIDAY *$109.99
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Best Western Payson Inn 801 N. Beeline Hwy Payson, AZ 85541 (928) 474-3241 $109 .

*Triple A Rate, you must mention for Mazatzal Casino event to get this rate.

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Wheeling Feeling Cook-Off - Rose Warmuth

Just thought I'd send out a shout for any last minute cooks as the 5th Annual Wheeling Feeling Chili Cook-Off is only about a week away being held on June 3, 2006 in Wheeling, WV at the Downtown Waterfront Ampitheatre. Cooks can register on the ICS web page or call me & I'll get them the info ASAP! My # is 304-234-3636 (day) or 304-232-8008(eve). We have about 37 Red Coks with a total of 48 folks entered in red, verde &/or salsa, so we have tents for some of the last minute chiliheads! This promises to be another great event and we try to make it outstanding for the cooks! The cooks party is friday night at the racetrack and the cook-off site opens at 8:30am on Saturday morning for set up. There is over $2,500.00 in prize money & trophies.

Come Get the Feeling & Cook Chili in Wheeling!!

Thanks,

Cook-off Chair Rose Warmuth

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Judges for Inland Empire Regional - Karen & Bill Ray

Show of hands, please, if you will be at Inland Empire Regional on Saturday to help with the judging, scorekeeping or whatever. We will have a lunch for the judges this year and want to be sure that we order enough. Thanks for your reply and thanks in advance for your support of our event.

Bill and Karen

chiliray94@sbcglobal.net

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Tuesday - May23, 2006

Ray Little Services - Carol Hancock

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Arrangements for Ray Little's services are as follows:

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Viewing - Thursday, May 25th, 5:00pm-8:00pm

Rosary at 5:30pm

Utter McKinley Mortuary

11071, Columbus Avenue

Mission Hills, CA 91345

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Services on Friday, May 26th, 10:00am

St. Genevieve's Catholic Church

14061 Roscoe Boulevard

Panorama City, CA 91402

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Reception following the service at 9337 Lev Avenue, Arleta, CA 91331

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Deadline for ICS NEWSPEPPER - Jeff Ray

Deadline for the Summer issue of the NEWSPEPPER is this Friday, May 26.
If you have new cookoffs to be listed, flyers or other chili news,
please make sure to get your info in.
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Remember if you mail photos---DON'T send the SAMLLEST FILE SIZE
available. They work for viewing on your computer screen, BUT NOT for
printing--The BIGGER the file size the better.
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Jeff Ray - jeff@grumpy.com

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The Pana Lincoln Prairie Trail International Chili Society's Sanctioned Regional Chili Cookoff was held in Pana, Illinois

The Pana Lincoln Prairie Trail International Chili Society’s Sanctioned Regional Chili Cookoff was held in Pana, Illinois on Saturday May 20, 2006 during the Pana Sesquicentennial Heritage Day Celebration. The six block street fair held in downtown Pana with near perfect weather and great attendance. The two day event features a great Amusement Midway with rides, free stage entertainment, art fair, kiddie tractor pull, crafts, displays, demos and great food.

The day started as a majority of the Cooks had Gravy and Biscuits at the Pana Masonic Lodge breakfast fund raiser. The first events that were held on stage were the Little Miss Chili Pepper, Little Mr. Chili Pepper, and Baby Chili Pepper Contests with 90 entries. Winners as follows:

BABY CHILI PEPPER: 0 through 7 mos.

Winner: Spencer Gregg, 4 mos., Parents: Travis Gregg & Danielle Hill, Pana, Il.

BABY CHILI PEPPER: 8 Mos. Through 15 mos.

Winner: Bre Stalets, 12 mos., Parents: Derek & Chris Stalets, Oconee, Il.

BABY CHILI PEPPER: 16 mos. Up to 36 mos.

Winner: Carter Manuel, 19 mos., Parent: Jessie Manuel, Pana, Il.

LITTLE MR. CHILI PEPPER: 3 Years up to 6 Years

Winner: Collin Smith, 5 yrs, Parents: Allen & Charlye Smith, Pana, Il.

LITTLE MISS CHILI PEPPER: 3 Years up to 6 Years

Winner: Ivy Stewart, 4 yrs., Parents: Duane & Beth Cutler, Tower Hill, Il.

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While the Kids were on stage the cooks prepared their entries and judging of the Cookoff was taking place. The winners were as follows
SALSA – 15 Entries – 11 Judges

3^rd Place – Les Eastep, Springfield, Il.

2^nd Place – Lori Walters, Owaneco, Il.

1^st Place – Mary Thomas, Clinton, Il. Will represent the Regional Cookoff at the 2006 Salsa World Championship in Omaha, Neb.

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CHILI VERDE – 10 Entries – 11 Judges

3^rd Place – Mark Johnson, Atlantic, Iowa

2^nd Place – Kelly Wessing, Farmersville, Il.

1^st Place – Les Eastep, Springfield, Il. Will represent the Regional Cookoff at the 2006 Chili Verde World Championship in Omaha, Neb.

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RED CHILI – 26 Entries – 26 judges

5^th Place – Wes Carlson, Loves Park, Il.

4^th Place – Larry Eastep, Rochester, Il.

3^rd Place – Linda Curtin, Stonington, Il.

2^nd Place – Mike Goodman, Pewaukee, Wis.

1^st Place – Cathy Schmedeke, Clinton, Il. Will represent the Regional Cookoff at the 2006 Red Chili World Championship in Omaha, Neb.

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Event Co-Chairs Jim & Joni Deere were assisted in the presentation of the awards by 3 World Verde Champs Jerry Simmons, St. Louis, Mo.; Wes Carlson, Loves Park, Illinois; & Jeff Netser, Seymore, Indiana as well as World Jambalaya Champion Norman Melancon, Gonzales, Louisiana. The Pana Chamber of Commerce would like to thank all who made the two day event a wonderful success.

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Monday - May 22, 2006

Ray Little - Bill and Karen Ray

Sadly, Ray Little passed away at about 10:30 last night. He had been shutting down for the last several days and was suffering. We received a phone call from Mary Lou at 6:30 this morning. She will let us know the arrangements as soon as they have been made. We will pass the word along.

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Whittier District Cookoff - July 21 results - Allene Macklin

Whittier Historical Society and Museum district cookoff - May 21

For a first-time cookoff, it went very well and the public who showed up seemed to really enjoy the chili tasting. It was a nice day, a little overcast, but the rain stayed away! Thanks to Mary Nicoll for bringing extra salsa to make the required 7 entries! Mike and Bonnie Ford drove straight from Pahrump to help judge - what troopers!

The results:

Salsa - 7 entries

3rd - Charlie Bosfield

2nd - Karl Smith (Smitty)

1st - Brian Wolfe (new member)

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No Verde

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Red - 10 entries

5th - Nibs Waters

4th - Charlie Bosfield

3rd - Tony Angotti

2nd - Mike Stewart

1st - Mike Hulka - qualifies for Last Chance at the World's

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Chief Judge: Don Hammes

Chief Scorekeeper: Allene Macklin

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Sunday - May 21, 2006

Silver State Regional - Bobbie & Norm Gaul

Well the Silver State Regional is now in the history books (at least the ICS history books). We had 22 Red Chili Cooks, 12 Verde Cooks, and 9 Salsa's. There were 5 States represented, NV, AZ, CA, ID, CO. The weather was quite warm, and the only bad thing was the wind blew like you know what, and we had to take down the judging tent and move everything to an almost enclosed space, Scorekeeping was done in Claude and Joyce's room. The Chamber did a great job of getting local people and businesses to participate in the People's Choice contest, they really get into it by decorating their spaces, and it also keeps the ICS cooks from having to bring People's Choice Chili. Next year we hope to have a back to back (Regional & District) and it will be held in one of the parks in town, (grass and shade trees). Will let you know more about that later. The after cookoff party was once again held at Norm and Bobbie's. We had more attendees then ever and served more food then ever, I was very happy to see everyone enjoying themselves. Ormly did his show for everyone, and as usual did an outstanding job.

WE WANT TO SAY A VERY SPECIAL THANKS TO FRED WIELAND WHO STEPPED BACK IN TO HELP OUT NORM WITH THE CHIEF JUDGING DUTIES.

Now for the winners:

SALSA:

3rd Pl. Lenn Deevers

2nd Pl. Bob Wiseman

1st Pl. Eileen Beaty

VERDE:

3rd Pl. Jim Jordan

2nd Pl. Bob Wiseman

1st Pl. Barbara Ward

RED CHILI:

3rd Pl. Nancy Swenberger

2nd Pl. Sonny Allen

1st Pl. Eileen Beaty

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SWALLOWS INN REGIONAL CHILI COOK OFF - Steve Wright

The 12th Annual Swallows Inn Regional is history.

Had great beach weather and a tremendous crowd as usual.

23 Traditional Red Chili

Third Place- Allene Macklin

Second Place- Russell Barnes

First Place- Armando Sanchez

7 Chili Verde

Third Place- Vicki Caron

Second Place-Judy Barnes

First Place-Russell Barnes

I want to thank Kathy Stewart for doing a great job as Chief Scorekeeper.

See you next year at the Swallows!!!!!

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NJ State Cookoff Results - Audrey & Steve Falkowski

The 2006 New Jersey State Chili Cookoff was another great success. After a week of rainy, cool weather, the sun came out and warmed every one up. Over 2500 spectators came to sample chili served by over 60 cooks. The $1000 first place prize for People’s Choice draws a lot of non-ICS contestants. The winning team made over 75 gallons of People’s Choice chili. There was also a nice prize of $500 for People’s Choice Salsa. The crowds loved that.

People’s Choice Red Chili winner: Matt Crossken

People’s Choice Salsa winner: Jeff Cousminer

There were 19 Salsa entries:

3^rd – Jim Heywood, NY

2^nd – Judy Omerza, PA

1^st – Kim Eckley, MD

There were 16 Verde entries;

3^rd – Kim Eckley, MD (Won a tie breaker with her husband, Ghon.)

2^nd – Dan Bauer, VA

1^st – Chuck Hoff, OH (He loves New Jersey now)

There were 40 Red entries:

5^th – Stephen Moir (not sure where he from)

4^th – Ghon Eckley, MD

3^rd – Doug Johnson

2^nd – Rich Omerza, PA

1^st – Judy Omerza, PA

Congratulations to all the cooks. We had a great time.

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Saturday - May 20, 2006

Silver Springs, Nevada results 5/20/06 - Dione Cooley

Results of the Silver Springs Nevada chili cookoff at Lyon County Airport. The day was warm, slight breeze and featured antique aircraft and air show honoring women in aviation. Fritz Rubins, chairman, had commitment on the east coast so the judging/scorekeeping duties were well handled by Herb and Geneva Holman. Job well done.

Salsa results
3rd Will Smith
2nd Ed Pierczynski
1st Nadine Cleftinski

Verde
3rd Barbara Beaver
2nd Jim Beaver (lost tie for 1st)
1st Dione Cooley ---- this completes hat trick

Traditional Red
3rd Jim Beaver
2nd Mary Pierczynski
1st Barbara Beaver

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Ray Little - Bill and Karen Ray

We have been in touch with Mary Lou Little, Ray's wife. She says that he has not opened his eyes the last few days and that, today, he is not eating or drinking. He is on oxygen and a hospice caretaker is on the premises. He had a blood test last week; the only result that she was told is that his glucose is high, which it has been all along. He had an MRI last Tuesday, but she has been unable to get the doctor to call her back with the results. All in all it does not sound good. We will keep you updated as we are updated.

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Wildomar Cook-Off 6-10-06 - Karen Angotti

Need cooks

Wildomar Cityhood District Chili Cookoff

Saturday, June 10, 2006

Rusty’s Roadhouse Tavern

18815 Grand Avenue, Lake Elsinore

$30.00 Entry fee for ICS Members and non Members + 1 gallon

of people's choice chili

($42 to join ICS)

$15.00 Salsa entry fee - 100% payback

$25.00 Chili Verde entry fee - 100% payback

Make checks payable to Wildomar Community Council

Schedule of Events
Set-up 7:00 – 8:30 AM
Cooks Meeting 9.00 AM
Salsa turn in 11:30 AM

Chili Verde Cook 10:00 AM – 1:00 PM

Red Chili Cook 12:00 Noon – 3:00 PM

Chief Judge: Tony Angotti

Chief Score Keeper: Karen Angotti

MC: Claude Covington

Chairperson Mia Michaels 951-471-2023

mmwildomar@aim.com

Awards 4:30pm approx.

Red Chili

1st Place $300/trophy

2nd Place $200/trophy

3rd Place $100/trophy

Benefiting Wildomar Incorporation Now (WIN)

www.WildomarWIN.org 909-330-0355

Winner Advances to 2006 World Championship

Chili Cook-off last chance

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A festive evening at the cooks party in Creston, British Columbia. - Bob Alexander

Numerous toasts to our old friend Doug Makin.
Expecting a big crowd in the streets tomorrow, and rain is only sort of chancy....

Results later!

Bob Alexander
Baja Red Chili
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