SUNDAY - December 30, 2007

Laughlin Regional & Nevada State

Hi Chili Heads
It's Laughlin & Nevada State time again Our date is Jan 5 & 6.
Make your Reservations at the Golden Nugget .

The Phone # is 1 800-950-7700.

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Patty wanted to have a little extra fun this year by having
an American Idol but this one would be Chili Idol contest.
Our Chili Idol Contest will be on Saturday, with the finals & winner
to be announced on Sunday. Patty has found a Karaoke expert
with all the songs & equipment needed. We hope you all will
take advantage of the extra fun the Bragging Rights of the 1st
Chili Idol for the year.
Don't forget our Slot machine contest on Friday night Jan 4th
at 7 PM

& Oh Yea, our BACK 2 BACK Chili Cook Off's on the week end.
If you have any questions please call or e mail .
775-727-9790 Chilidesertdawn@hotmail.com.

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NO PEOPLES CHOICE CHILI
The health Dept says any body handing out Chili will have to comply to the rules posted. .As Fred would say the chili is for the JUDGES. I'm sure you know the rest of the story.

We won't have Peoples choice Chili
Thanks
Big G & Desert Dawn

Hope you had a Very Merry Christmas & Plan on A Great New Year!!!!!!!!.

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The 2008 New England Regional Chili Cookoff

Dear Friends,

The 2nd Annual NERCC is just a short 4 months away! While it promises to be bigger and better for all the cooks...we need you to sign up on the ICS site!

Please go to http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2160

to sign up directly for all of the ICS categories! The only category you can't sign up for there is the new "Jim Heywood Youth Division". Jim Heywood is an icon in the Chili World and we felt it was time to show our love and respect to a chili cook that has always tried to help the kids! So we decided to change the yute division name to honor him! So get those under 18 year old kids to cook!

We have great sponsors this year. Most notably is Rockville Bank as our major sponsor. Coming back for their 2nd year as sponsors,we have to thank TSI Harley Davidson, CostCo, Minute Man Press, and The Crowne Plaza Hotel. All are listed with links on http://www.chilict.com/ . Please take a look at "Our Friends" too....The Country Diner where you can get some great home cooking and Alan Lanouette (our chief Wrangler) and Kariden Electric just to mention some of our friends!

As you may already know, we have a new location for the NERCC. You can get directions at http://www.chilict.com/ . Pleasant View is a great place that will enable us to have cooks park their vehicles near their cooking site. If you'd like, there is also limited camping there the night before. There is water nearby to clean your cooking gear with and it is a truly beautiful location! We'll be cooking on a football field, at a golf driving range so you know there will be plenty of room!
Our governor has already Officially Proclaimed May 3rd to be New England Regional Chili Cookoff Day in CT! We anticipate even more going on for the cooks....as Kat and I are cooks ourselves,we want the NERCC to be the most cook friendly cookoff we can make it! If you need anything or want anything, please let me know....(within reason)!

We have the Crowne Plaza as our host hotel again this year and I will let you all know ASAP what the Chili Cookoff rate will be!

We plan to have a cooks get together on 5-2 and I will keep you posted on where that will be.

We're fortunate to have Dave Lorenz as our Chief Judge and Audrey Falkowski as our Chief Scorekeeper and Jerry Buma,the 2007 ICS WCCC Champ as a guest Judge!

We look forward to a fun filled day of great music provided by Acoustic Rick and his gang, a car show, great Chili and good friends cooking the BEST Chili in the world!

We look forward to seeing you on May 3rd,2008!
Have a happy and safe New Year!
Kat and Michael

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PS: Could you please mention to all the Chili Cooks that The 2008 New England Regional Chili Cookoff has a brand new web site?
If they go to http://www.chilict.com/ they will see our new and improved site!

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