WEDNESDAY - Nov 5, 2008

High Desert Robinson Regional and Tri-State Regional Those of you who signed up for the Avi Regionals (High Desert Robinson Regional and Tri-State Regional), scheduled for the Friday and Saturday following Thanksgiving discovered that the ICS website would not accept your sign-up. Good news! The site has been repaired, and I invite you to sign up once again so that we have a heads up on who will be participating. . Thank you for your patience! . Susie Baumberger 2312 W. Avenue L-1 Lancaster, CA 93536 . Cell: 661-714-6234

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TUESDAY - Nov 4, 2008

Rhode Island State

Chili Cooks,

I have secured a host hotel for the 1st Rhode Island State Chili Cookoff.

The host hotel will be The Best Western in Newport,RI. The address is: 151 Admiral Kalbfus Road, Newport, Rhode Island, 02840-1310 and the telephone number is:401-849-9880.

The rate will be $68 a night plus tax. You must ask for the "Chili Cooks" rate". The Best Western Hotel is approx.19 minutes/9.52 miles from the cookoff site. For those cooks that are flying,The Best Western Hotel is 39 minutes and 27.75 miles from T.F. Green airport.

We will also have a cooks welcome party in the Best Western Hotel lounge on 2-27 from 6p.m. to 8 p.m. This will give cooks an opportunity to get together to say hello to our friends from March of Dimes RI,our chief judge and score keeper and all of the other cooks that will be there.

We really look forward to seeing you in Rhode Island for the first ICS sanctioned Chili Cookoff the last weekend in February 2009.

If you need to sign up,please click here.

http://www.chilicookoff.com/Event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2383

Should you have any questions,please feel free to contact me at madmike@chilict.com

Thank you,

Kathy and Michael Freedman

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Update on Joy Bilozir;

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Had a CAT scan today. They're taking fluids out of her lungs and she has 11 ivs in her. She's not feeling good at all. She is alert and is using a laser setup to communicate. They will know more by this evening. The feeling is that there are only days left.

Please pray for Randy and Joy as they go through this awful experience.

God bless.

Jim Stoddard

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MONDAY - Nov 3, 2008

Beatty Days Regional

Norm and I, on behalf of Patti and Fred want to thank all 25 cooks that showed up in Beatty for the Beatty Days Regional Chili Cookoff. The morning started out with skies overcast and around noon the rain started. It wasn't a downpour but just enough to make you miserable. But all the cooks and judges stuck around to help. Even the public was not scared off by the rain, which by the way we had more spectators this year than any other year, and the cooks ran out of PC by 12:30. We also wish to thank Jim and Wilma Maehl, Phil Morosky, and Donnie Gordon for coming out to help. Donnie helps me every year and I couldn't do this without her. We even had four judges come out from Pahrump to help. Now on to the important stuff: THE WINNERS!

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SALSA - 9 Contestants

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3rd Place was a 3 way tie which was not broken

2nd Pl. Gary Nelson

1st Pl. Skip Cooley

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CHILI VERDE - 14 Contestants

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3rd Pl. Sonny Allen

2nd Pl. Marty Leitner

1st Pl. Dione Cooley

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ICS RED CHILI - 25 Contestants

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3rd Pl. Lenn Deevers

2nd Pl. Mike Austin

1st Pl. Sheila Beller- This makes two years in a row for Sheila, I guess you might say that Beatty is good for Sheila.

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We also had a Certificate for the furthest traveled cook which went to Eddie & Mary Huffman from North Carolina.

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The Dutch Oven winners on Sunday were:

DESSERT: 3rd. Joe Hendricks, 2nd. Fred Summers, and 1st. Mark Haught

MAIN DISH: 3rd. Jack Martinson, 2nd. David Dispensa, and 1st. Ron Harris

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Ghon Eckley - Surgery Update

Hi everyone-

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Ghon and I spent the morning at Johns Hopkins today for his preoperative tests. Things went well at the appointment.

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Ghon checks in to Hopkins on Monday morning, November 10 at 5:30 am. The estimated start time for the surgery is 6:30, and should be about 5 hours long. At this time, Ghon is looking at having his mitral valve replaced, his aortic valve and aortic root replaced, and the tricuspid valve repaired - and possibly replaced. Based on our experience in 2005, he will likely be in the ICU until late Tuesday or Wednesday, and will spend the rest of his stay in the cardiac care unit. Overall, the surgeon expects him to be in the hospital 7-10 days. Ghon's shooting for 5-7.

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Please keep us in your thoughts and prayers as the day approaches. Each day brings new anxiety for us all.

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I'll update everyone on Monday after surgery, and will send an address when we have it.

Thanks,

Kim, Ghon & Jonathan

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Joy Bilozir

I have an urgent prayer request for you believers out there.

Joy Bilozir is back in the hospital and is in very critical condition.

She needs your prayers.

I will pass on information as I receive it.

God bless.

Jim Stoddard

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