HAT TRICK WINNERS
We now have Two Hat Trick Winners
Dave Lorenz & Steve Tomasek
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2008 CARSON VALLEY CHILI COOKOFF
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The Sixteenth Annual Carson Valley Chili Cookoff & Craft Fair sponsored by the Carson Valley Sertoma Club will be a two day back to back Regional event on Saturday & Sunday, April 26 & 27, 2008 at the Carson Valley Inn (CVI) located on US 395 in Minden, Nevada, about 14 miles south of Carson City. There will be six winners going directly to the World Cookoff.
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Entry fees are: $35 for Red - $20 for Green - $15 for Salsa. Please make checks payable to: Carson Valley Sertoma. Also PLEASE register either on the web or by mail regardless of whether you send money ahead of time. It really helps to know how many will be competing in which categories.
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Unlike the previous several years, this event will be held in the paved parking lot between the General store/Gas station and the Hotel/Casino close to US 395. This will give us much better visibility from the highway and increase the number of spectators. You can set up any time after 10 AM Friday or before 9 AM Saturday. Parking will be in the gravel parking lot behind the RV Park. We will provide some degree of security Friday & Saturday night but due to the open exposure we cannot guarantee complete security as we have in the past. The CVI has insisted that NOTHING be driven into the asphalt. This includes nails & spikes. Please cooperate with us on this.
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The CVI has blocked a limited number of rooms and RV spaces at reduced rates. Reservations can be made at 1-800-321-6983, Ext 1 and be sure to mention Group #500377. Your Group number for internet reservations http://www.cvinn.com/ is 484503. Rates, including tax, are as follows:
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Motor Lodge - $83.16 (Fri & Sat) - $64.35 (Sun)
RV Resort - $29.70 (30 amp) - $31.68 (50 amp)
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We look forward to seeing you and if you have any questions, please contact me at 775-265-5463 or MrFritz@charter.net or 1221 Sorensen Lane, Gardnerville, NV 89460.
Keep Your Pot Warm
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Fritz Rubins, Chairman
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MARIA AUSTIN'S UPDATE
To All Our Chili Friends and Fam-Lee
Maria was extubated today at 5pm pacific time. For 3 days now we worked on her breathing, and it paid off. Two days ago we found out she was free from any mrsa virus's, staph or any other junk she had. She started feeling better with all the infections gone. Her lung x-rays looked great this AM. They told her she could not drink or eat for 24hrs. (That pissed her off) She was ready for a large pepsi and some real food. The Doctor gave in a little and said 8hrs. and ice chips only. I left the hospital at 11:30 pm and she needed to wait until 1:00am. She was getting hotter by the minute. She is an impatient person when it comes to waiting for food or drink.. She will be moved tomorrow, I'm sure to the penthouse for some re-hab and learn to walk, talk and eat again. She is pretty weak. Thank You All Again for your Prayers and Thoughts. Prayers do work.
Thank You All
Mike and Fam-Lee
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Lawrence to host international chili cookoff in June
Dust off your recipe boxes, spin the spice rack and grab your biggest pot. Get ready for a chili-making contest of international proportions the city of Lawrence is hosting this spring.
The International Chili Society has sanctioned Lawrence as its "Chili Cookoff" site on June 8. Thousands of people are expected to flock to the city for the spicy event, which will feature traditional chili, chili verde (green chili) and salsa making contests.
Local heroes such as police, firefighters, paramedics and teachers will compete in a separate chili-making contest that day. Four local groups will face off in a battle of the bands that afternoon.
"It's going to be awesome," said Mayor Michael Sullivan, who will serve as a chili contest official.
The noon to 4 p.m. event will be held at Sal's Riverwalk on Merrimack Street. The Riverwalk has been the venue for other large-scale community events, including a 2006 Wayne Newton concert.
"We're hoping this will help showcase the city of Lawrence from an economic perspective," said John MacDonald, a Sal's spokesman.
Dennis Michaud, a chili lover and South Lawrence resident, has been an ICS member — a "chilihead" — for two years. He's entered his chili in cookoffs held in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Maine. The cookoff this June will draw chili lovers and cookers from all over the eastern seaboard.
"They'll get a different picture of Lawrence than maybe they have right now," he said. "I'm looking forward to people coming here and seeing Lawrence as it is ... a city on the move."
Chili is a hearty entree made with ground beef, chili peppers, chili powder, tomatoes and chili beans. Chili lovers eat it plain, drizzled with cheddar cheese, over hot dogs, hamburgers, potatoes and nacho chips.
"People are crazy about chili," said MacDonald, noting the ICS cookoff pulls in all kinds of folks. "We're expecting at least a couple of thousand people."
The ICS is a nonprofit organization that sanctions 300 chili cookoffs per year at venues all over the world to raise money for charity. Winners of ICS-sanctioned cookoffs qualify to compete for cash prizes and awards at the World Championship Cook-off.
The sole purpose of ICS is "to promote, develop and improve the preparation and appreciation of true chili." The association looks "to further the comraderie of chiliheads," according to information posted on its Web site.
Similar cookoffs are being held in Hudson, N.H., on June 7 and in Winchendon, Mass., on Aug. 2.
Cookoff prizes vary from $500 cash for the first-place chili winner to $25 for the salsa winner. Entrance fees apply, and those who compete must bring their own table, canopy (if needed), cooking source and fire extinguisher.
Michaud said the secret to great chili is not so much what you put into it, but how you make it.
"It's the love we put into it," he said.
For information on the cookoff categories, entrance fees and rules, check out www.chilicookoff.com.
The history of chili peppers
The history of chili dates back to the days of Christopher Columbus and the Conquistadors. Incas, Aztecs and Maya Indians were known to combine meat, beans, peppers and herbs at mealtime.
Chili peppers were used in Spain during the Cervantes era. They are staples of great cuisine in China, India, Indonesia, Italy, the Caribbean, France and Arab nations.
When Don Juan de Onate entered New Mexico in 1598, he brought the green chili pepper with him. That pepper has been grown there for nearly 400 years since.
Canary Islanders, transplanted in San Antonio as early as 1723, used local peppers, wild onions, garlic and other spices to concoct pungent meat dishes.
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Orv Balcom
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The Magical Mystery Tour makes its final stop.
Whether you knew him as Orville the rock and roll engineer…The Brown Dog chili-cooker… political pontificator…golf, racquetball or Trivial Pursuit challenger…rabid Raider fan…wine-maker…or River rat, he will be remembered as a fierce competitor who turned every day into a party. To quote his insightful mom: "Orville has always worked very hard at having a good time." Yes, indeed.
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Born in the late 30's, Orv was at heart a renaissance man of the 60's. For those of us fortunate enough to have shared a stop or two on his Magical Mystery Tour, who can forget his beloved green Ford van. Customized with a 'sky' of twinkling lights and a bed of green shag, rock-and-roll blared from the speakers of his 8-track sound system. His well-used shag-covered ice chest was at-the-ready between the two front seats, doubling as a perch for his co-pilot, Buster (the original Brown Dog). He covered the highways from Seattle to Santa Fe, making regular stops at The River – but braking anywhere he found fun and friends.
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Orv's music, patents, and awards are testaments to his amazing mind and strong body. But his truest legacy is the love and loyalty he instilled in those he loved: his family and the countless friends whose lives have been enriched by knowing him.
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Through the years, we've loved him, admired him, argued with him, and been totally baffled by him – but we could never ignore him, and we won't forget him. He was a totally unique guy who did things his way.
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He chose to live hard instead of long. He lived big, and he has left us with big memories – ones that make us smile.
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Clarksville Regional Chili Cookoff
New things happening in the park…
June 7, 2008
Things are looking up in CLARKSVILLE, MO.
SEE YOU THERE
Mississippi Riverfront Park
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ICS RED CHILI ICS CHILI VERDE
1st Place $600.00& Trophy* 1st Place $100.00 & Trophy*
2nd Place $150.00 & Trophy 2nd Place $50.00 & Trophy
3rd Place $ 75.00 & Trophy
4th Place $ 25.00 & Trophy
*….Advance to WCCC
Salsa Contest Anything Goes
1st Place $100.00 & Trophy* $100.00 1st Place & Trophy
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Red Chili Fee $35.00 Green Chili $20.00 New Members $67.00 (includes membership fee)
Salsa Fee $20.00 (Must be an ICS member to advance to WCCC
Anything Goes $20.00 or 2 Gal of Chili (with Beans) to Benefit Raintree Arts Council (Please Participate, it helps us raise money for the Promotion of the Arts and enhance the Appleshed) We appreciate your help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
ADMISSION $3.00 CHILI SAMPLES $.25—11:00 a.m. -5:00 p.m.
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BUTCH WAX & THE HOLLYWOODS
50's- 60's-70's-R&B-Motown Classics
www.butchwax.net
Sponsored by
Raintree Arts Council
P. O. Box 251, Clarksville, MO 63336
Contact
Linda Blakey, Chili head
573-242-3920, fax 573-242-3920, e-mail lwblakey@sbcglobal.net
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