Friday, July 08, 2005

NEWS

“Elections for the Sunshine State Pod were held for year 2005-06 as follows:

Great Pepper - Denise Saunders
Pepper Popper - Tom Ince
Secretary - Scott Johnson
Publicity - Scott Johnson
Treasurer - Candi Aravalo
Regional Referee - Candi Arevalo” (Denise Saunders)

RESULTS & UPCOMINGS

“Results of the Florida State Open Chili Championship-Englewood FL held July 2, 2005:

1. Derrick Janisz - Tarpon Springs AQ
2. Lisa Farmer - Seminole FL AQ
3. Tom Ince - Lakeland FL AQ
4. Dorathy Williams - Terlingua TX
5. Luke Halpen - Rotunda West FL
6. Sally Burger - Venice FL
7. Mike Thomas - Anna Maria FL
8. Peggy Thomas - Anna Maria FL
9. Bill Tyler - Royal Palm Beach FL
10. Dino Ramaciere - Seminole FL

Show:

1. Victor Garrison - Englewood FL AQ
2. Scott Johnson - Englewood FL
3. Candi Arevalo - Wellington FL” (Denise Saunders)


“Okay everyone..........mark your calendars for the END of THIS MONTH Sat. July 30!!!! Yes, that's right it's almost time for the 1st Annual Music Fest & Chili Throwdown here in WACO....Held at the HOT Fairgrounds 4601 Bosque Blvd. Benefiting the Waco Jaycees Scholarship Fund. Entry fee for CASI cooks $18.00 non CASI cooks is $23.00 Turn in time is 2pm CHILI GRIND ONLY!!!!! Beans $5.00 turn in time 1pm. Make checks payable to Waco Jaycees. RV Hook ups water & Elec. $20.00 a night. Cooks party Friday night. Goody Bags for entries received before July 18th. Plenty of parking. There will be an outdoor concert with Aaron Watson, Doug Moreland, and many others..Tickets are included with entry fee. Contact Sara Breyer @ either (254) 717-2244 or (254) 722-0045 email swbreyer@aol.com or Donna Conrad email @dangergail@aol.com. Sponsored by the Waco Jaycees. ALSO NEXT DAY COOK OFF Sunday, July 31st same location entry fee $15.00 turn in time Noon. Benefiting Habitat for Humanity CHILI GRIND ONLY same contact information. So come on down and let's show them what we are made of and also you will get a small taste of what is to come next month!” (Donna Conrad)


“ATTENTION ALL COOKS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! OKAY NOW IT'S TIME TO PLAN FOR ONE HECK OF A TIME!!!!!!! YEP !!!! THAT'S RIGHT IT'S TIME TO PLAN NOW FOR AUGUST 27th & 28th!!!!!!!! The Salsa & Margarita Festival!!!!!!!!!!! You have been hearing A LOT about it so come on let's PARTY!!!! Benefiting the Arthritis Foundation!!! Held at the Heart of Texas Fairgrounds! CHILI GRIND ONLY!! If the cook's choose to cook only the entry fee is $18.00 BUT WAIT the Festival is offering a GREAT package!!! For cooks for BOTH days and entry to the Salsa & Margarita Festival & Concert for $60.00 per person!!!! Now there is going to be some GREAT entertainment.....Randy Travis, Clay Walker, Wade Bowen,Cross Canadian Ragweed!! Turn in time is 2pm. RV hook ups water & Elect. Contact either Donna Conrad or Dianne Stimson (254) 486-9206 or Dangergail@aol.com for more information. NEXT DAY COOK OFF same location...benefit's the Arthritis Scholarship Fund turn in time 1pm CHILI GRIND ONLY entry fee $15.00 to cook only remember there is a package deal!!!! Make check payable to Arthritis Foundation. SO COME ON AND PARTY IN WACO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” (Donna Conrad)

“It's back!! Bob & Jean's 2nd Annual Hotter-N-Hell CASI Cook Off in Crosby, Texas. Saturday, July 9th - Jackpot beans entry $10.00 turn in at 11 a.m. CASI chili $18 entry turn in at 2:00 p.m. 5:00 p.m. Cook's Party - Bob & Jean's supplying meal and 9:00 p.m. live band and dancing!! Sunday, July 10th - CASI chili $18.00 entry turn in at 12:00 noon. Plenty of RV parking - no hookups. Bob & Jean's is located at 4700 FM 1942, Crosby, TX for more information call Joan Brack at 713-224-8300 ext. 3328 or Bob & Jean's at 281-421-5650. Hope to see you there.” (Teena Miller)

POTPOURRI

Happy Birthday to Barb Sigler. Happy 25th Anniversary to Red and Donna Dillon.

“The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.” - George Bernard Shaw

posted by Alan @ 7:49 AM

Thursday, July 07, 2005

RESULTS & UPCOMINGS

“As you know the annual CCO at the Cloudcroft, NM Ski Lodge is July 23rd. I'd like to invite everyone to come and join us in the cool Sacramento Mountains. This year should be extra special based upon information I received yesterday when speaking to the owners of the Lodge. As I understand things, the Adam's family has leased the restaurant and it has been opened as a steak house serving a full menu on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. It is also my understanding that there is live music on the deck in the evenings, free of charge. So come and join us for another great CCO. Hope to see you there.” (Bud Barrick)

POTPOURRI

Happy Birthday to Fread Cielencki and Pat Krenek. Happy Anniversary to Don and Dianna Hoy.

“When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.” - Abraham Lincoln

posted by Alan @ 8:06 AM

Wednesday, July 06, 2005

RESULTS & UPCOMINGS

“The "First Annual Cowboy Chili Cookoff" was held on July 2nd in Marathon, TX and it was followed on Sunday by the "Day After Cowboy Chili Cookoff" on July 3rd.

1st Annual Cowboy Chili Cookoff - Saturday July 2nd, 2005
CHILI (46 cooks)
1st Place - Phil Barnes - Houston, TX
2nd Place - Karin Barnes - Houston, TX
3rd Place - Lee Roy Childress - Midland, TX
4th Place - Keith Patton - Odessa, TX
5th Place - Richard Scott - Odessa, TX
6th Place - Valerie Learman - Austin, TX (2nd time cook)
7th Place - Douglas "Bucky" Seelig - Austin, TX
8th Place - Ruby Ross - Marble Falls, TX
9th Place - Shirley Stateczny - Comfort, TX
10th Place - Cindy Wilkins - Houston, TX
SHOW
1st Place - Goat Gap Gazette (Wayne Turner) - Waxahachie, TX
2nd Place - Udderly Ridiculous (Connie Collier) - Snyder, TX
3rd Place - Bounty Hunter (Phoebe Campbell) - Marathon, TX

Day After Cowboy Chili Cookoff - Sunday July 3rd 2005
CHILI (28 cooks)
1st Place - Barbara Herrin - Odessa, TX
2nd Place - Richard Scott - Odessa, TX
3rd Place - Herb Ross - Marble Falls, TX
4th Place - Karen Bains - Rankin, TX
5th Place - Joann Scott - Odessa, TX
6th Place - Patsy Childress - Midland, TX
7th Place - Keith Patton - Odessa, TX
8th Place - Louis Gonzales - Odessa, TX
9th Place - Norma Homesley - Manchaca, TX
10th Place - Carol Kitchens - Lubbock, TX
SHOW
1st Place - Cow Patty Chili (Amy Patton) - Odessa, TX
2nd Place - Jazzy Jimalina (Jim Hedrick) - Marathon, TX
3rd Place - Lone Star Chili Chix (Pat Krenek) - Houston, TX

Norma and I want to express out thanks and appreciation for the wonderful support we received from the people of Marathon, from the Marathon Chamber of Commerce, from all of the businesses in Marathon, and from all the people who drove out to Marathon to cook and enjoy this new great cookoff in West Texas. Special thanks go to the Black Gold Pod for their support and help. Bruce Jones did a magnificent job running the judging and Boomer Kingston came to be our announcer on Saturday. There are so many people that we need to thank and if I start listing them all it will take a very long paragraph and still I might leave someone out. So thanks to everybody! We raised about $1700 for our two charities – “The Marathon Volunteer Fire Dept.” and “The Friends of the Post”.
If you get to see Phil Barnes or Barbara Herrin anytime soon tell them you want to see their 1st Place chili trophies. – Saturday there was a bronze Cowboy hat by Lloyd Goldwire and on Sunday there was a carved wooden cowboy hat by Jim Stewart, master wood carver of Marathon. Both were very unique trophies. The Saturday show trophy was a statue of a weathered cowboy and the Sunday show trophy was a statue of a buffalo.
All who attended had a great time and are looking forward to next year. So make your plans to compete in Marathon for points and great trophies the next time around.” (Elton Homesley)


“Alice and Carlton Reynolds of Rockport TX hosted the fourth annual Estes Flats cook-off at their palatial estate on the Texas Gulf Coast.

This was a two day event held on the Fourth of July weekend. Friday hamburgers with all the trimmings were served. Saturday about forty people went to a restaurant for
Famous seafood of the Texas Gulf Coast, and Sunday was a pot luck supper. About $400 worth of fire crackers fired off on Saturday and Sunday nights.

This cook-off is well supported by the locals and they contributed many wonderful prizes for the raffle both days. If you missed this cook-off you need to mark it on your calendar for next year on the Fourth of July weekend. There are a few plugs available but plenty of room for motor home parking and day trippers.

Saturday July 2, 2005

Chili 31 cooks

1. Frank Fox Houston TX
2. Glenwood Volkmer Victoria TX
3. Larry Hodon San Antonio TX
4. Barbara Fox Houston TX
5. Linda McDonald Victoria TX
6. Doyle Smith San Antonio TX
7. Annie Murphy Houston TX
8. Robert Lowery Victoria TX
9 Denise Cabello Tucson AZ
10 Eldon Hiley Jourdanton TX

Showmanship

1. Frank Murphy Houston TX
2. Kim Hiley Jourdanton TX
3. Nadine Karnei Weesatche TX

Beans

1. Larry Hodon San Antonio TX
2. Nadine Karnei Weesatche TX
3. Melba Westerman Marble Falls TX


Sunday July 3, 2005

Chili 25 cooks

1. Melody Smith San Antonio TX
2. Glen Volkmer Victoria TX
3. Nadine Karnei Weesatche TX
4. Clyde Rogers San Antonio TX
5. Bryan Reineger New Braunfels TX
6. Linda McDonald Victoria TX
7. Robert Lowery Victoria TX
8. CeCe Mathews Houston TX
9. Barbara Fox Houston TX
10. Sharon Reineger New Braunfels TX

Showmanship

1. Nadine Karnei Weesatche TX
2. Frank Murphy Houston TX
3. Kim Hiley Jourdanton TX”


“Happy belated 4th of July from the High Desert Pod. We were all too busy cooking chili to wish you all a Happy 4th on the 4th....we had a great cookoff in Veterans Memorial Park to honor the country.....the 15th Annual Welcome Home Desert Storm 4th of July Chili Cookoff.

It started Sunday night with a potluck and grilled meat party for the cooks and we had the standard picnic style grub to choose from...spicy hot slaw, macaroni salad, brats, steaks, burgers, and hot dogs, quesadillas, chips and salsa, brownies and cakes and cookies.

On the 4th, the park had static displays of military equipment from nearby Fort Huachuca, AZ (home of U.S. Army Military Intelligence, and the U.S. Army's Information Systems Command), there were re-enactments of an old west cavalry charge, fun and games for kids, a pancake breakfast, music, our chili cokoff and of course, that evening was one of the best fireworks displays in the state of Arizona.

29 cooks turned in their samples of red to see who could be the 4th of July Champion on this very hot but fun day. Captain (Ben Berry) America handed out ice cold slices of watermelon to the cooks during the cookoff, which was much appreciated. We had several VIP judges to include the Honorable Congressman Jim Kolbe and the Mayor of Sierra Vista, Tom Wheeler. Jesika Cline, Miss Sierra Vista, handed out our trophies and gave hugs to the winners...but the real winners were the San Pedro Kiwanis charities...which gained $648 from our cookoff efforts. Heres the results:

Chili:
1st - Russ Hite, Sierra Vista, AZ (Q)
2d - Norm Dunn, Sierra Vista, AZ
3d - Sunny Fichtl, Sierra Vista, AZ
4th - Roy Fisher, Sierra Vista, AZ
5th - Jim (Black Eye) Tomlin, Sierra Vista, AZ
6th - Leo Lemelson, Sierra Vista, AZ
7th - Ted Fichtl, Sierra Vista, AZ
8th - John Johnson, Sierra Vista, AZ
9th - Tom Smith, Hereford, AZ
10th - Greg Monger, Sierra Vista, AZ

Show:
1st - Kokopelli Chili II, Sunny Fichtil, Sierra Vista, AZ
2d - Los Tres Bendajos, Ben Berry, Sierra Vista, AZ
3d - Professor Monger's Chili Elixir, Greg Monger, Sierra Vista, AZ

Furthest travelled went to Peter Braly of Tucson.

This was the U.S.A. at its best...come on out and join us next year for some good old fashioned fun on the 4th of July, 2006.” (Greg Monger)


“Yesterday on the great day of the 4th of July we were privileged to have our chili cookoff on Fort Lewis, WA to help them celebrate their Freedom Fest. We had 18 participants which included four soldier cooks (actual cooks in the military) and one of them Ryan Starr (cook at the stockade) finished fifth. The Washington weather was above and beyond the call of duty in that it was hot in the lower 80's. Order of finish were: 1st - Betty Mayer ( six year cook and first time to ever get a first place); 2nd - Victor Price (first time cook and parents were nice to me to bring him because I need cooks); 3rd - Larry Mayer; 4th - LaRaine Baker; 5th - Ryan Starr (first time cook); 6th - Dennis Bloomfield; 7th - Evelyn Trevino; 8th - Peggy Vargas; 9th - Judie Anderson; 10th - Al Ruskin. And Ruth Peach got 1st Place People's Pick.” (Ken Peach)


“I want to remind everyone of the location change for the the Red Oak Chamber Chili Cook-off this Saturday, July 9th. It is being held at the corner lot of I-35 Service Road and Reese Dr. next to Red Oak Health and Rehab center. Also the Ellis Co. Military Moms will be accepting donations for our troops. Items needed include dvds, cds, paper/pens, baby wipes, kleenex, beef jerky, bagged candy, sweetened Koolaid. If any chili cooks would like to donate any of these items, we will make sure they get sent to our troops.” (Michele Goodwin)
POTPOURRI

Happy Birthday to Kim Hiley and Wes Watson and Happy Anniversary to Chuck and Barbara Taylor.

The thought for the day comes from Renee Moore: “Some people are like slinkies, not really good for anything. But they still bring a smile to your face when you push them down a flight of stairs.”

posted by Alan @ 7:54 AM

Tuesday, July 05, 2005

RESULTS & UPCOMINGS

“The Mac Haik (pronounced Hike) Ford lst Annual Cook Off was held July 2 with 17
very brave cooks having fun and cooking for the CASI Scholarship Fund and nary a
complaint. Fortunately for all of us, the A/C'd showroom was next to us and we
could pop in for relief. You had your Mama and Papa sweating it out for awhile, both literally and physically, but you came through. We thank all of you who came and shared your E-Z Ups and helped each other unload and set up.

17 Chilis

1. Stephanie Daughterty Leander (2nd time to cook. Definitely excited winner)
2. Jessie Waguespak Austin
3. Neal Doss Georgetown
4. Barbara Taylor Cedar Park
5. Mike Monte Cedar Park
6. James Bauer Leander
7. Billy Doss Georgetown
8. Chuck Taylor Cedar Park
9. Kevin Daugherty Leander
10.Barbara Schueler Leander

Show 3

1. Jessie Waguespak Austin
2. Ken Rodd Austin
3. Diane Stimson Crawford

We wish to thank Dale Goree, Marketing Rep. from Mac Haik for the wonderful treatment we received from the entire Staff. Also, for 13 beautiful placques. A thunderous round of applause to Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Swart, who drove from Corsicana, cooked their chili in one hour "To make sure that Sue and John had enough cooks." That folks is called love of CASI and friendship. Thanks Robbie and Ken. Also, kudos to ED Alan and Susan, bone tired from their recent trip, who came and helped John so I could cook. We thank Ken Rodd for getting this cook off in the making and for giving John and me the opportunity to take it, since John speaks "Ford". Thank you Directors. Thank you John Caffey for being a great Head Judge, thanks Jeannette for assisting. Thanks to James Bauer and Jeannette for heading up the Tallying crew. And a really big hug and thanks to Nephew Billy, who helps John so much. Thank you Donna and HEB for the crackers. One more time, I did want all of you to know that everyone deserves a great big thanks for being there. You all made it happen and made it Sanctioned. Had the opportunity to tell a bunch of folks and employees about CASI and chili. Used one of our best tools, Terlingua Trails to give out. Several were left on the showroom floor. Being this cook off was for the Scholarship Fund, it was very apropos that the Trails had articles from recipients and about the 2005 winners. Life is Good. God Bless Us All.” (Sue Caffey)

POTPOURRI

Happy Birthday to Jeanie Atherton and Pat Lundy. Belated Happy Birthday and Anniversary wishes to Alice Brant, Diane FitzHenry; Margaret & Steve Nadeau, who celebrated yesterday.

“Traditions are group efforts to keep the unexpected from happening.” - Barbara Tober



posted by Alan @ 7:43 AM