THURSDAY - Mar. 4, 2010

AZ Copperstate

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AZ Valley of the Sun Regionals (Back to Back)

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(In Phoenix, Arizona area)

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SIX (6) CHANCES TO QUALIFY!!!

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We are looking forward to our event next weekend and hope you guys are ready to cook up some fantastic chili. I have attached the cooking schedule for both events, fees and prizes.

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Some of you have indicated the need for tables, chairs and/or canopy. Please let me know one more time who you are so I can be prepared.

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The ICS rules for contestant chili can be found on the ICS website at http://www.chilicookoff.com/.

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The guidlines for the Maricopa Country Health regulations can be found at http://www.maricopa.gov/EnvSvc/EnvHealth/Pdf/guidelinebw.PDF If you have any specific questions or concerns about this information, please call me at 480-893-1942.

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I will be out directing all of you on the monring of the 13th on the baseball field. If you cannot find me or have any questions the night before you can call me on my cell phone at 602-363-3110.

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We will have coffee and bagels each morning for you all to enjoy. Remember if you have your own drinks at your booth it needs to have a lid. The health department will be checking.

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Look forward to March 13 & 14.

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Susan Hyden

Chairperson

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Cookoff Entry Fees and Prizes

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Copperstate and Valley of the Sun Cookoff:

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Entry Fees:

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Red Chili - $35.00

Chili Verde - $30.00

Salsa - $15.00

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Prizes:

Red Chili:

1^st - $500.00

2^nd – Prize

3^rd – Prize

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Chili Verde:

1^st - $200.00

2^nd – Prize

3^rd – Prize

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Salsa:

1^st - $100.00

2^nd – Prize

3^rd – Prize

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People's Choice - $50.00

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ICS COPPERSTATE

REGIONAL COOKOFF Saturday, March 13

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Cooks & Judges Schedule

9:00 am – 10:00 am: Chili Booth SETUP & REGISTRATION

Start Preparation of People's Choice Chili

10:00 am: Cooks Meeting (Start Prep after meeting)

11:00 am: Light Stoves for Chili Verde

11:30 am: Judges Meeting for Salsa (Must attend to Judge)

12:00 noon: Salsa Turn-In

1:00 pm: Light Stoves for ICS Red Chili

12:30 pm – 4:30 pm: Serving of People Choice Chili (1 Gallon Required. This is in addition to Your Cooked Contest Chili. Additional Gallons appreciated for the success of our fundraising efforts)

1:30 pm: Judges meeting for Chili Verde (Must attend to Judge)

2:00 pm: Turn-In Chili Verde

3:30 pm: Judges Meeting for ICS Red Chili (Must attend to Judge)

4:00 pm: Turn-In ICS Red Chili

6:00 pm: AWARDS

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ICS AZ VALLEY OF THE SUN

REGIONAL COOKOFF Sunday, March 14

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Cooks & Judges Schedule

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7:00 am – 8:00 am: Chili Booth SETUP & REGISTRATION

Start Preparation of People's Choice Chili

8:00 am: Cooks Meeting (Start Prep after meeting)

9:00 am: Light Stoves for Chili Verde

9:30 am: Judges Meeting for Salsa (Must attend to Judge)

10:00 am: Salsa Turn-In

11:00 am: Light Stoves for ICS Red Chili

10:30 am – 2:30 pm: Serving of People Choice Chili (1 Gallon Required. This is in addition to Your Cooked Contest Chili. Additional gallons appreciated for the success of our fundraising efforts)

11:30 am: Judges meeting for Chili Verde (Must attend to Judge)

12:00 noon: Turn-In Chili Verde

1:30 pm: Judges Meeting for ICS Red Chili (Must attend to Judge)

2:00 pm: Turn-In ICS Red Chili

4:00 pm: AWARDS

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The Main Street Heat Regional

March 27, 2010

The Main Street Heat Regional cook off in Mt Airy Maryland is fast approaching. The county Health dept is a little funny about having everyone registered 2 weeks before the cook off. That means the forms are due by March 13^th. If you are even considering going to the cook off please contact the people running the event so they can get the forms out to you. Other than that Mt Airy is a small suburb between Washington D.C. and Baltimore. There are very comfortable accommodations nearby. Also for you foodies and wine experts, there are several fantastic restaurants and vineyards nearby also. For you fans of Top Chef the winner's Restaurant VOLT is less than 25 minutes away. If you have any questions about the cook off or the area feel free to contact me. This cook off is well run and grows in size every year. This year the coordinators have secured the entire fireman's carnival grounds and cooks will be cooking under pavilions. The Falkowskis will be handling the Judging and Scorekeeping I hope to see you out there.

Thanks for your time

Ghon Eckley

ghoneckley@comcast.net

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WEDNESDAY - Mar. 3, 2010

CANCELLED

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Avi Easter Back-2-Backs

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The back-2-back Regionals originally scheduled for Easter weekend, April 3 & 4, are cancelled due to financial cut-backs at the Avi Casino created by the recession. If you have made room reservations or airline reservations, please cancel these reservations immediately. Our apologies for any inconvenience this may have caused you.

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Susie Baumberger
2312 W. Avenue L-1
Lancaster, CA 93536
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Cell: 661-714-6234

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NORTHEAST CHILI

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Chili Cooks,

I'm writing to tell you about three ICS chili cook off's that are heating things up on the East Coast!

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April 24, 2010 is the date of the 1st annual NY City District Chili Cook Off http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2636 They are a great group of people and it looks to be a nice cook off!

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May 1, 2010 is the date for the New England Regional Chili Cook Off. This ICS Regional Cook Off was huge last year! We are expecting to have a BIG Jim Heywood Youth Division! This cook off will be killer!

http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2612

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May 22, 2010 will be the first annual Doc Dowling District Chili Cook Off. Doc Dowling was a long time ICS cook that passed on last year. I know that Mike Merola and Jack Cowell are working very hard on this event. http://www.chilicookoff.com/event/Event_Display.asp?EventID=2559

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Why not sign up to cook at all three and increase your chances of going to the 2010 WCCC?

We hope to see you at all three of these great ICS chili cook off's!

Michael Freedman

www.chilict.com

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TUESDAY - Mar. 2, 2010

AZ Copperstate

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AZ Valley of the Sun Regionals

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(Back to Back)

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(In Phoenix, Arizona area)

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SIX (6) CHANCES TO QUALIFY!!!

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Come cook in the Back to Back AZ Copperstate Regional and AZ Valley of the Sun Regional cookoffs on March 13th and 14th in our lovely Ahwatukee Park. We will again have security on site Saturday night so cooks can leave their tents and belongings instead of packing it all up and setting up again. Entry fees are $35 for Red, $30 for Green, and $15 for Salsa. In addition, 1 gallon of People's Choice is required. If you need tables, chairs or canopies they are available for rent. A table plus 2 chairs is $10 and a canopy is $15 for a two-day rental.

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Our host hotel is Extended Stay America (1.22 miles from our location). Only a couple of rooms are still available for $64.99 per night. (This is a 1 bedroom queen suite with a kitchen and full refrigerator.) This is a terrific deal for Phoenix in peak season. Their address is 14245 S. 50th St., Phoenix, AZ 85044 and phone number is 480-785-0464. Ask for Milijana.

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We look forward to having you and having a very successful cookoff.

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Susan Hyden

Cookoff Chairman

shyden@ahwatukeehoa.com

480-893-1942

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Bob Dinneweth/Bob Plager - Chief Judges

Louise Dinneweth/Kathy Plager - Chief Scorekeepers

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APPAREL from 2009 ICS WORLD

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TOM & COLLEEN PARDIKES are interested if anyone knows if there is any apparel left from the 2009 world cook off. if you could, I would like to find out a contact person. i'm interested in more shirts and a couple hats.

thanks, tom

connor1231@hotmail.com

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River City Regional - Old Town Elk Grove, CA

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Save the Date – May 22^nd, 2010

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I just came from a meeting and am excited to announce we have finally secured a date for the Annual River City Regional Chili Cookoff & Spring Street Faire in Old Town Elk Grove, CA. Mark your calendars Saturday, May 22, 2010. We will be in the same location as last year. I am still working on the details and will post them on the blog and website as soon as I can.

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David Hipskind

River City Regional Chili Cookoff

916-743-2350

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MONDAY - Mar. 1, 2010

1st. Morro Bay Chamber of Commerce Chili Cook-off & Beer Fest

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New district cook-off 3/13/10 - it's getting closer

Morro Bay

Community Center Parking Lot

1001 Kennedy Way

Morro Bay, Ca

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We could use all the support we can from our follow cooks, either cooking or judging. This is a brand new cook-off, let's all come out & have a GREAT time. Don't know about you but I'm getting bored with not much to do on the weekends - no football, no baseball, no cook-off. Just honey dos. So here's the important info

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Red Chili - $25.00 + 1 gallon

1^st place - $300

2^nd place - 100

3^rd place - $50

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Verde - $25.00

1^st place - $200

2^nd place - $100

3^rd place - $50

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Salsa - $15.00

% of entry

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There will be alot of different contests at this Cook-Off - Non-Member Business, Non-Member Individual in every catagory. Best Booth, Best Salsa Display, Best Costumes, Most Spirited Team, Mr. & Miss Chili Pepper - They expect a large crowd.

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Please send application via ICS website or contact Rick Carr, Chairman

805-772-4467, or Barry Steinberg 818-887-1467, ripchili@sbcglobal.net

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SATURDAY - Feb. 27, 2010

RHODE ISLAND STATE

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The 2nd Annual RI State ICS Chili Cook Off is officially now in the books.

We can't begin to tell you everything that happened. Just a few of the highlights include the Falkowski's barley getting out of a very snowy NY to having one of the best cooks parties we've been to in a while!

We were all at the RI Convention Center in Providence, the largest indoor venue on the East Coast. We had great music and tons of vendors of all kinds!

We had 39 red chili's, 26 salsa's and 19 verde totaling 41 cooks from 12 different states.

We had five previous World champs cooking with us too!

We had a special presentation for Scott E. Navaroli who graduated the night before from the MA Fire Academy!

Chief Judge was Steve Falkowski and Chief Scorekeeper was Audrey Falkowski assisted by Sarah Freedman, Kat Freedman and VERY special guest Vickie Marnick.

On to the winners!

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People's Choice was won by the Reading (MA) Fire Department. A GREAT group of guys that put on a show!

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Salsa

1st Marc Frechette CT

2nd Scott Navaroli MA

3rd Rick Sievering MD

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Chili Verde

1st Christine Johnston PA

2nd Marc Frechette MA

3rd Jon Everin NY

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Red Chili

1st Rhone Carr NJ

2nd Dave Daigle RI (2nd time he cooked)

3rd Vicki Tankis MA

4th Lauren Ray MI

5th Bill Noonan ME

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The next cook off's for us are the new NY City Chili Cook Off 4-24 and then the BIG New England Regional Chili Cook Off 5-1! We hope to see you at both of them!

A VERY tired Kat and Michael Freedman CT

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Link for Pictures

http://smilebox.com/playEmail/4d5455794f5455794d544a384d7a4d344f4451794e7a633d0d0a&sb=1

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