Wednesday - June 14, 2006

Santa Ana Boys and Girls Club Cook-off - Mike Stewart

I’m sure that there has been an enormous response to my request for judges to the upcoming event. Unfortunately I neglected to publish my e-mail address in order to receive the enthusiastic replies from the judging community. So, please, if you would like to judge at the Cook-off, please e-mail me at Baja_chili@hotmail.com. Thanks for your support.

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Arizona Back to Backs (Flagstaff & Payson)

Calling for more COOKS, we need RED and VERDE and SALSA. Both are ICS World Qualifiers, Flagstaff(Route 66 Regional) and Payson(Arizona State) June 18 & 19

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Tuesday - June 13, 2006

SHIRLEY JUDSON - A SPECIAL LADY

Shirley Judson passed away peacefully last night surrounded by her entire family. She fought her illnesses to the very end. As we all know, Shirley's ICS friends were her extended family. I talked to her last week and she told me that she was planning to attend the Folsom Chili Cookoff the next Saturday. Shirley's smiling face was missed that day and will be missed always.

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The family requests that in lieu of flowers that donations be made to the Red Bluff Rotary Club's Scholarship Fund. Arrangements for services are as follows:

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Wednesday, June 14 - Viewing between 5:00-8:00pm - The Chapel of the Flowers, 816 Walnut Street, Red Bluff, California

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Thursday, June 15 - Services at 4:00pm - First Christian Church, 926 Madison, Red Bluff, California

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Interment following the service at Oak View Cemetery, Cemetery Lane, Red Bluff, California

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Celebration of Life following Interment- Elks Lodge, 355 Gilmore, Red Bluff, California

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Carol Hancock

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July 4th cookoff - Bobbie Gaul

JULY 4TH REGIONAL

GARDEN GROVE ELKS LODGE

TRASK & NEWHOPE

GARDEN GROVE, CALIFORNIA

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Okay fellow chiliheads, July 4th is fast approaching and we would like some idea of how many cooks we will have, and we still need help in the judging department.

This is a great venue for a cookoff, (on the grass with shade trees aplenty), the Elks Lodge is always good to the cooks and the prize money is outstanding.

Please let me or Don Hammes know if you are coming and what contests you will be entering. Don's email address is RATSHACK2@AOL.COM and my address is chiliahr@veawb.coop

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Bobbie Gaul & Don Hammes

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Sonny Allen's new address

My new email address is

nitachuck@aol.com

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Monday - June 12, 2006

River City Regional #2 Results - Bob Grayson

Another beautiful day in Folsom for the River City Regional, Part 2.

The results:

Peoples' Choice--For the second day in a row, Rhonda Laynam-Balcony Bistro. Two trophies and a condo at Lake Tahoe for a weekend for 8 people.

Booth--3rd, JR Knudson

2nd, Rick Decker

1st, Gerry Lind

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Salsa--3rd, Voni Medcraft

2nd, Harry C. Robinson

1st, Jim Watson (back cooking after taking several years off)

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Verde--3rd, Rick Decker

2nd, Barbara Beaver

1st, Lynn Robinson

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ICS Red--5th, Mary Pierczynski

4th, Sonny Allen

3rd, Jim Watson

2nd, Steve Atkinson

1st, Trecia Nienow

Beautiful trophies and $2,000 in prize money and great music each day and about $12,000 raised for charity this weekend. Great job by Dave Hipskind and Steve McIntire.

SEE EVERYONE IN CARSON CITY FOR THE HIGH SIERRA REGIONAL AND NEVADA CAPITAL REGIONAL ON THE GRASS AND UNDER THE TREES AT GLEN EAGLES RESTAURANT, JULY 15 AND 16.

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MISSOURI STATE - Michael Goldstein

Chili-Cook-Off & Salsa Competition

Celebrates 31 Years of Making Lives Better

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It’s a celebration of all that is spicy – chili’s and salsas of every variety and live music with the hottest local bands. The National Kidney Foundation of Eastern Missouri and Metro East is planning its 31^st Annual Chili Cook-Off & Salsa Competition!

This year’s event is Saturday, September 30^h, 11 am to 7 pm at Westport Plaza. The musical line-up includes Swing Cat Swing, Well Hungarians, and PLASTIC.

Seventy-five chefs from around the region will compete for the Missouri Chili Championship title. Guests will enjoy chili and salsa samples for just 50 cents each, while enjoying music, dancing, and food and craft vendors. And of course, there’s the Showmanship Competition – where each cooking team competes for votes through costumes, skits, elaborate booth décor and customer service.

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Cook-Off Awards

Chili Grand Prize: $600 and a plaque, plus the opportunity to compete in the

International Chili Society’s World Championship in Omaha, Nebraska, October 6^th – 8^th.

Chili 2^nd & 3rd Places - $ 100 cash and a medal; 4^th - 10^th Places – a medal

Chili Verde 1st Place - $200 cash, a plaque, and the opportunity to compete in the

International Chili Society’s World Championship in in Omaha, Nebraska.

Chili Verde 2^nd Place - $50 cash and a medal

Team Showmanship 1st Place - $100 cash and a plaque; 2^nd & 3rd Places – a medal

Fundraising Award, 1^st Place – a plaque; 2^nd & 3rd Places – a medal

Salsa First Place - $200 cash, a plaque, and the opportunity to compete in the

International Chili Society’s World Championship in in Omaha, Nebraska.

Salsa 2^nd Place – $50 and a medal; Salsa: 3^rd Place a medal

People’s Choice Chili - $100 cash and a medal

People’s Choice Vegetarian Chili - $100 cash and a medal

People’s Choice Salsa - $100 cash and a medal

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For patrons who prefer something other than chili or salsa, the event offers burgers, hot dogs, freshly roasted nuts, fruit smoothies, kettle corn, grilled chicken and portabella mushroom sandwiches, ice cream, icy cold beverages and even fried Oreos!

Children will enjoy the Kids Corner, complete with inflatable attractions, costumed characters, face painting, games and crafts.

Proceeds from the annual event help to fund kidney disease prevention efforts and patient services. 20 million Americans have kidney disease. Another 20 million are at risk.

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Chilli-Man and Budweiser are the Title Sponsors of the event. They are joined by other corporate sponsors, including FM101.1 The River, FM106.5 The Arch, 92.3 WIL, Westport Plaza, Schupp Company and Schnucks Markets.

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Admission to the Chili Cook-Off is just $7.00, and includes 4 chili samples. Additional samples are just 50 cents. Children under 12 are admitted free. For further information, call the National Kidney Foundation of Eastern Missouri & Metro East, at (314) 961-2828, or log on at http://www.nkfstl.com/.

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Michael Goldstein, Event Chair and former Head Judge

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Results Knights of Columbus District - Simi Valley, CA -

There were 14 red cooks that were kept very busy handing out Peoples Choice. This district always seems to attract a large turnout for chili - Maybe it has something to do with the car & motorcycle show.

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Winners

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5th Troy Leach

4th Ron Burt

3rd Dave Thomas

2nd Susie Baumberger

1st Paul LaRouche

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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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Saturday - June 10, 2006

River City Regional #1 Results - Bob Grayson

Saturday's regional in Folsom, California brought moderate temperatures to the beautiful historic downtown. Great chili, great bands, and a large cadre of volunteers made it a successful fundraiser for Make-A-Wish. The results:

People's Choice--Rhonda Lynam, Balcony Bistro

Booth--3rd, Craig Hall

2nd, Rick Decker

1st, Margo Knudson

Salsa--3rd, Voni Medcraft

2nd, Richard Reay

1st, Ron Boisseranc

Verde--3rd, Barbara Beaver

2nd, Lynn Robinson

1st, Susie Decker

ICS Red--5th, Harry C. Robinson

4th, Jim Beaver

3rd, Steve Atkinson

2nd, Margo Knudson

1st, John Jepson

Dave and Kathy Hipskind did their usual fantastic job chairing this event. Today Steve McIntire chairs the River City Regional #2. Results will follow.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS--HIGH SIERRA REGIONAL AND NEVADA CAPITAL REGIONALS ARE SET FOR GLEN EAGLES, CARSON CITY, NEVADA FOR JULY 15- and 16. Big craft show and big-name entertainment are planned.

Please pray for Shirley Judson. Her cancer has returned and she is desperately ill.

NEPA District Winners - Audrey & Steve Falkowski

The clouds were still with us in the North East as the cooks set up their tents. This time there was no rain, but the wind kept the temps in the low 50’s. It’s great weather to eat chili, but tough on the cooks. This cookoff is put on by the Lake Ariel Fire Company in Northeast Pennsylvania. Jim Miller, (a chili cook) and all the people associated with the fire company really helped with the event. They had raffles and a very unique chili eating contest. Working with Tasty Crème doughnuts, they filled plain doughnuts with chili. Each contestant was given 12 doughnuts and had 5 minutes to eat them all or as many as they could.

Most told us later that this method is NOT the best way to eat chili.

Later the sun came out as did the spectators. We hope more cooks can come to this well run event next year. Dave Lorenz did a great job a Chief Judge.

Results:

Firehouse Chili:

Richmond Engine Firehouse

Peoples Choice:

Mad Mike’s Killer Chili

Salsa 7 cooks:

Tie for 3^rd

4^th Place Chip Welsh, PA

3^rd Place Judy Omerza, PA

2^nd Place Lew Wheeling, PA

1^st Place Doug Johnson, PA Doug won Salsa at this event last year.

Verde 7 cooks:

4^th Place Rich Omerza, PA

3^rd Place Lew Wheeling, PA

2^nd Place Bill Vanyo, PA

1^st Place Dave Schulman, CT

Red 10 cooks:

5^th Place Cathy Freedman, CT

4^th Place Dave Schulman, CT

3^rd Place Doug Johnson, PA

2^nd Place Chip Welsh, PA

1^st Place Lew Wheeling, PA Lew won this event last year also.

Congratulations to all the cooks.

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