MONDAY - Feb 16, 2009

Arizona Veterans Regional

With bad weather all around us we had a beautiful weekend. Capt Jim Maehl, Val Gereghty & I went down to cover for Steve Wright who had to cancel (We're told Aggie's surgery went well). Saturday was amateur day and special thanks go to Mark G who honored us by judging 1 week back from Iraq... and to Dione Cooley and Patricia Sanchez for their help in the scoring area. Sunday was ICS day and the AZ Vets did a great job! Capt Jim Chief Judged; Scorekeepers Donnie Gordon, Val Gereghty, Nicole Cami, Dione Cooley; Wranglers Willma Maehl & Pete Caimi. And the Winners:

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People's Choice (Won by 1 ticket) - S&S Concrete

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Best Cook (Highest total points of contestants entering all three events) - Mark Haught, NV

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Salsa (7 Entries)

3rd Place - Armando Sanchez, CA

2nd Place - Dione Cooley, NV (No she didn't score Salsa)

1st Place - Patricia Sanchez, CA

Chili Verde (7 Entries)

3rd Place - Mike Ford, CA

2nd Place - Lenn Deevers, NV

1st Place - Don Hammes, CA

Red Chili (22 Entries)

3rd Place - Tom Hoover, OH

2nd Place - Howard Choate, CA

1st Place - Ray Bogart, NV (Hat Trick)

Congratulations to all the winners and Thank You to all the volunteers.

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New England Regional Chili Cookoff

Chili Cooks,

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We have secured two host hotels for the New England Regional Chili Cookoff which is May 2,2009.

Both hotels offer a discounted "Chili Cooks rate" that you must ask for in order to get the discount.

Both hotels,Hampton Inn and Red Roof Inn are located in Enfield,CT and are approx. 6 miles from the site of the NERCC .

A direct link to those hotels can be found on http://www.chilict.com/ under "sponsors".

I will post a host hotel for the 1st Soldiers Angels District Chili Cookoff in Webster,MA which is May 9th,later in the week.

Thank you,

Michael Freedman

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The New England Regional Chili Cookoff:
http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2342
1st Soldiers Angels Chili Cookoff:
http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2381

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Donovan, Gail & Bill

We are finally updating our computer......

Here is our new email address as of 2-16-09.

bdonocode3chili@zoomtown.com

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