September 2007 Web Page www.chili.org Volume 20 Issue 9 Chili in the Cornhusker State Holy Smokes! We've Had a Chili Cookoff Hot, HOT and HOTTER was the order of the day for the First Annual Holy Smokes Chili Cookoff held July 21st in Parker, Colorado. This first annual event drew contestants from Wyoming, Colorado, California, and CASI’s own Alan and Susan Dean represented Texas. There were also a lot of local cooks trying their hand at chili for the first time. With food vendors, kid’s activities, music, and a craft fair, there was plenty to keep the crowd entertained while the cooks tended their chili pots and salsa bowls.

L to R: 1st Place, Steve Lee; 2nd Place, Kyle Haberman; 3rd Place, Judy Haberman Soon it was time for the Salsa to be turned in. With almost as many If the cook’s party the night before was a hint of what was to come, the 21st Annual salsa entries as chili entries, the Nebraska State Chili Cookoff was surely going to be something special. Fried crowd was extremely pleased to chicken, baked beans, potato salad, cole slaw – the list went on and on. A perfect Amy Hardesty of Aurora, Colorado have something cool and refreshing summer menu for a bunch of hungry chili cooks. Whether it was to bask in the on this day that peaked in the high camaraderie of other chili aficionados or just exchange “BS” and catch up on old 90’s. But this was just the “warm up”. When the green chili was turned in, the times, the cook’s party the night before was a huge success. A great job was done crowd went wild. Except for a couple of restaurants that made 10 gallons of the by Pepe’s Pod on this one. southwest concoction, the majority of pots were bone dry in only a few minutes.

Dawn broke the next day crisp and clear. Early risers arrived at the cookoff site The judges for this event were new to the world of chili as well. They soon realized and were eager to get the event started. Breakfast burritos were provided by none how special a chili cookoff can be. This was evident with a judge from Norway other than Pepe’s Pod Great Pepper himself, Kyle Haberman (some of us went who had never in her life tasted chili. Not only was she hooked on the fiery brew, back for seconds.) After everyone had their fill, the cooks gathered for the cooks she promised that she would return to the United States for next year’s event. She meeting. Four states were represented at this 21st annual event. A mix of old timers was later seen collecting recipes and website addresses so she could re-create her and first time entrants promised to treat the crowd, and the judges, to some wild favorites at home in Norway. chili.

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Non Profit Chili Appreciation Society International Inc. Organization CASI Hot Line P.O. Box 859 Fredericksburg, TX 78624 US Postage Paid 888-CASIHOT Kerrville, Texas Permit No. 81 If you have a cookoff coming up in the month of November your cookoff information must be in the hands of the CASI Upcomings Director by September 15th to meet the 30 day cookoff adver- tising requirement. Page 2 Terlingua Trails September 2007 ED Pondering Hear Ye! This month, I’d like to go back to discussing the rules. This issue will be published right before the Great Peppers Meeting The Great Peppers shall convene for the annual business and this discussion may prompt plenty of debate. We’ll see. meeting of the Chili Appreciation Society International on September 8. Rose City Pod of Tyler, Texas will be Many of the rules changes, made in the past, have been made to address specific incidents. These rules changes have the host for this year and they have done an outstanding added specifics to certain rules, but they have not been all- job making the preparations. inclusive. That would be impossible. The writers, understandably, have not been able to predict the future. We should all be thankful for this great organization. If They have not been able to forecast cultural changes and you cannot attend, make sure your Great Pepper is marketing inventions. aware of the wishes of the Pod. This is the ultimate CASI political climate and the air is electric with the rhetoric that forms our policies. Nevertheless, the intent of the rules remains. When there is a question about the rules, it Some business is openly conducted, some written on cocktail napkins in the becomes a matter for the Rules Committee and the Board of Directors to define interpretation hospitality rooms, and dare I say, some strategy is plotted in clandestine caucuses. and set precedent for that particular point in time. Future Boards may read the rules more There is not as much smoke in the smoke-filled rooms as there used to be, but the strictly, more leniently, or within the context of cultural changes. fire is still there. One such rule that demonstrates our need to adjust to change is the following:

A new Board of Directors will be elected and that Board will elect officers for next V.B.2. “NO CASH PRIZES CASI rules prohibit the sanctioning of any cookoff giving cash year. The members will receive annual reports from all CASI departments. Final prizes for chili cooking or showmanship.” plans for the 41st running of the Terlingua Derby will be set. There is a distinct difference in the atmosphere of the Great Pepper’s Meeting as opposed to the I think we all know what that means. You are prohibited from giving an instrument that can be Terlingua International Chili Championship. There is more politics involved at one taken and spent any place on anything. I believe we’d all agree that this means currency or while the other is just plain old hard work. checks.

We will not be making rules changes this year, but irregularities and suggestions for This rule has come under discussion this past year because of a new banking tool – the pre-paid debit card or the cash card. These cards are something that has been unfamiliar to many of us improvement and modification will definitely be discussed. I want to thank the CASI but they are “same as cash” and cookoffs are prohibited from awarding these as prizes. Executive Director for the many hours of hard work that goes into the preparation of this meeting. Many people misunderstand the need for the bureaucracy and red Cookoffs may still entice cooks with promises of elaborate trophies, merchandise prizes, gas tape. The integrity of CASI is the ultimate outcome we must seek. cards, gift cards at the sponsor’s place of business, but cash, savings accounts, or “same as cash” instruments are prohibited. We are all on the same team and in one way or another; we are all seeking the same goal. There are more ways than one to get there. I hope to see each of you in Tyler I look forward to visiting with many of you in the Tyler hospitality room. The hospitality and shake your hand. room at the Great Peppers Meeting is the best educational experience. We all learn so much from one another. See you there. Thank you for your input and support. Alan

Jim Ezell President CASI INSURANCE Please make note: the contact for obtaining insurance certificates for cookoffs has changed. To get a certificate (proof of insurance) for your cookoff, please contact Michelle Moreau-Account Manager, or Mindy Hines, Make the Terlingua School District “Your School” Consolidated Insurance Center, Inc., 11403 Cronridge Drive, PO Box 0664, Owings Mills, MD 21117-0664, Phone: 410-356-9500, Fax: 410-363-3520, Anyone who has a Target credit card should consider making the Terlingua Email: [email protected] School District “your school”. Since the Target Take Charge of Education Program began in 1997, Target has donated more than $183 million to schools across the country. CASI members, please check your personal information in the CASI Information System. Corrections and Up to 1% of your Target card purchases are given to the eligible school of your additions should be sent to CASI Data Manager, Joe choice. For more information, go to www.Target.com/tcoe. Price at [email protected]

Alan Dean’s Chili Hot News is now available on the Terlingua Trails web at: Editor & Publisher: Doug (Bucky) Seelig Contributing Editors: www.chotnews.blogspot.com/ Upcoming Cookoffs: Dorathy Williams This newsletter is updated almost daily with the latest Cookoff Results: Bill Pierson Articles: Renee Moore news about CASI, cookoffs, cooks, and much more. Printer: Kerrville Daily Times - Kerrville, Texas September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 3 Nobody Told Me!

Way back in May, Bob Coats put an article in the Terlingua TICC Gate Policy Trails in which he reminisced about a lot of things, specifically the changes he has seen in the chili world. Bob QUALIFIED COOK: Each listed qualified cook receives one (1) wristband. and his wife, Doris, have been around since God created A husband and wife who are both qualified receive only one (1) wristband each. the chili pepper, so he demands a lot of respect and honor. A second wristband will be given to the qualified cook if their spouse or friend is He’s also seen a lot. with them and are not qualified. Qualified cooks DO NOT receive additional wristbands if they are also Old 320 members and/or captains of a show team. You should know that Bob Coats won TICC in 1999, and Doris Coats won in 1991. Not only have they seen a lot, they’ve done a lot. I’ve read a good bit and talked to a few SHOW TEAMS: Each listed Show Team Captain receives one (1) wristband of our trailblazers, but that just doesn’t compare with having seen it with your own eyes. only if they are NOT qualified to cook or an Old 320 member. Qualified cooks It would be great for a relative newcomer, like me, to be able to spend about a week just talking or Old 320 members DO NOT receive wristbands in addition to the Show Team to Bob. To my discredit, I have never met Bob Coats. Captain wristband.

Bob talked about the changes in the chili world. It’s obvious that there have been many Members of listed Show Teams will pay to enter the gate and receive a changes, some good, and some maybe bad. And we’re still changing. In general, change spectator’s wristband. They will then proceed to the registration area behind the is good. It proves that we are still alive and kicking. stage and will be reimbursed for their entry fee and given the appropriate wristband. The relaxed attitude of the 80’s wasn’t just at Terlingua. I remember the 80’s from less exotic locales, and the free spirits were almost as free as in Terlingua. Of course when you are a OLD 320: Each listed Old 320 member and one (1) guest receive wristbands hundred miles from everywhere, nobody can see you except the other people that are in the only if they are NOT qualified to cook or show. Qualified cooks or show team same place. So, the inhibitions have a tendency to evaporate. Terlingua is still about as captains DO NOT receive wristbands in addition to the Old 320 wristband. remote as anyplace on this planet, but the whole world has become a little bit smaller, so maybe we are a bit more inhibited today. Oh, well. The world has changed right in front of me. Important Insurance Notice Besides the shrinking world, I’m not as good as I once was. It fact, I’m not even as good once as I once was. I can’t be as uninhibited as I was in the 80’s. I can’t eat as much, I can’t drink as much, I can’t talk as loud, I can’t stay up as late, and I just don’t look good nekkid If you are holding a cookoff, please make sure the venue has any more! their own insurance before having them listed as an additional So now we spend more time trying to make the ultimate chili and trying to help those who insured on the CASI certificate for that event. Holding a are not as blessed as we are. We raise money for schools, fire stations, and emergency medical facilities for Terlingua. We provide scholarships for a whole bunch of kids. We cookoff at a location that does not have insurance, and raise money for a whole stable of charities wherever we go. Dare I say we’ve become better basically sharing the CASI insurance for their liability, could people than we were 25 years ago? Or is it just less tiring to do good? have catastrophic consequences to our insurance and ability Back in the 80’s, I believe that almost all competition chili was made with cut meat. Those to continue holding cookoffs. times are changing, too. Dana Plocheck may be the start of the new wave by winning with ground meat in 2006. More and more cookoffs are now specifying “Chili Grind Only,” and I don’t see any that are specifying “Cut Meat Only.” Will chili grind soon be the norm? The purpose of CASI insurance is to protect CASI and is not to protect those too foolish to protect themselves. Quite a few of us are beginning to use normal hamburger instead of any of the more exotic meats, and a bunch of us are cooking with “tube meat.” I haven’t seen any cookoffs requiring only “Plain Hamburger” yet, but could it happen? CASI rules don’t sanction Alan restricting the type of meat used, but they don’t say an organizer can’t restrict the meat.

Bob Coats laments the fact that all chili tastes the same. I choose to say that nobody makes “bad” chili anymore. Any new cook can visit the CASI website and find most of the TICC winning recipes. That’s a good place to start, but it tends to make all chilis pretty nearly Volunteers Needed for the Front the same. Most cooks will tweak their starter recipe, and some will see their own version posted on the winners list. Gate at TICC Among other changes that have come to Terlingua over the last 25 or 30 years is the sense and opulence of the camping facilities. “Roughing it” today is not what it was in 1980, and We need volunteers to interact with the public and assist the Terlingua certainly not what it was in 1967. Big motor homes and 5th wheel trailers now dominate the Fire/EMS personnel at the Front Gate of the CASI Rancho De Los Chisos. campgrounds, where tents and pickup campers once held forth. That’s neither good nor Please contact Bruce Jones (830) 899-3353 or [email protected] to schedule. bad, but it sure is different. Time slots available Wednesday November 1st thru Friday November 3rd from 9 AM until Midnight. About the only thing that hasn’t changed is the spirit of the Sponsors, spectators, vendors, media, chili contestants, showmanship cooks. They still have fun, they are still friendly, and they still accept newcomers with open arms. Those are the things teams, support personnel and chili personalities all pass thru the Gate at the Top that must not change. of the Hill. Lend some of your time and meet some of the people that make Terlingua an experience to remember. Steve Dowdy Page 4 Terlingua Trails September 2007 Show, Show, Show

TALLYMASTER'S Hello, Show People!

REPORT It’s hard to believe but it’s time to start preparing again for Terlingua. I’ve received numerous comments regarding the high quality of show competition at TICC 2006 YEAR-TO-DATE COOK0FF-OFF and I’d like to pass that on to the people who made it happen through their patience (with me), cooperation (with each other), and overall sense of showmanship and love STATISTICS of life.

This year we will again have competition in one-person show. It was a great success and looks to become a permanent part of the activities. REQ COOKOFFS CHILIS MONEY STATE PTS HELD JUDGED RAISED The most common questions regarding showmanship at TICC are covered below. If ALABAMA 6 2 36 2,500.00 you are an old hand at show, review them. If you are new to the experience, read them ARKANSAS 12 24 583 35,312.00 thoroughly. If you have questions, email me at the address below. Above all, be ARIZONA 12 22 497 76,275.00 prepared for a good time! BRITISH COLUMBIA 6 1 25 5,000.00 CALIFORNIA 6 1 23 1,500.00 COLORADO 9 8 141 39,985.00 How much space do I get and how is it allocated? The arena floor is marked for FLORIDA 9 6 114 34,632.00 the Old 320 and show spaces on Wednesday morning. In the afternoon, you can look GEORGIA 6 1 15 0.00 around and decide which space(s) you think might best suit your team. Large show IOWA 6 5 100 5,756.00 teams (more than 4 persons) get a space 20 ft. wide by 10 ft. deep. Small show teams ILLINOIS 12 13 274 5,721.00 receive a 10 by 10 space. One person shows generally travel through the arena. Spots INDIANA 6 4 92 30,052.00 are selected at registration (Thursday through Saturday) on a first come, first served KANSAS 6 3 118 3,100.00 basis. Check the official schedule for registration times. After spots are picked, some LOUISIANA 6 4 128 4,473.00 teams may be asked to move in order to optimize spacing for everyone. Please be MARYLAND 9 5 89 2,250.00 prepared to tell us if you are using amplification, how many people you have, your MISSOURI 6 3 49 11,400.00 booth size, etc. These considerations are critical in ensuring that everyone has as MISSISSIPPI 6 2 36 3,000.00 much room as possible. MEXICO 6 4 191 4,769.00 NORTH CAROLINA 9 8 170 42,275.00 Space was definitely at a premium last year. Please keep your setup as compact as NEBRASKA 6 2 32 905.00 you can! NEW MEXICO 9 9 213 3,416.00 NEW YORK 6 1 16 3,000.00 I have a lot of stuff. When can I set up? You will be allowed access to the arena OKLAHOMA 12 15 284 38,397.00 floor on Friday afternoon. If you have special needs, let us know. PENNSYLVANIA 6 1 21 330.00 SOUTH CAROLINA 6 2 37 14,400.00 We’re not all arriving together. How do I get my people in the front gate? Please TENNESSEE 12 7 125 29,600.00 read carefully! TEXAS 12 301 10,048 590,255.97 VIRGINIA 6 5 95 1,235.00 Only the person under whose name the show is registered will be allowed through the VIRGIN ISLANDS 6 1 16 17,000.00 gate for free. Remember that the people who run the front gate are local volunteers WASHINGTON 6 4 70 2,600.00 and don’t give them any trouble. WYOMING 6 1 28 3,000.00 GRAND TOTAL 465 13,666 1012,138.97 Any other show people who aren’t qualified themselves will need to pay at the gate and get a spectator wristband. During official registration times, they can get a DELINQUENT COOKOFFS - These are voucher which is redeemable at the merchandise concession stand. This is limited Cookoffs held before 07/01/07 that to four persons for small show and six for large show. Again, contact me if you have results have not been received for! special issues in this regard.

*** No Delinquent Cookoffs *** Are the rules any different from regular cookoffs? No, no, and NO. Although many of us enjoy the antics prevalent in the Flats, nudity and lewdness in Showmanship are neither allowed nor tolerated. When designing your show skits and contests, keep this in mind and DON’T put us in a position to make a judgment call.

No guns, black powder, blanks, or pyrotechnics (fireworks) are allowed. If you want to heat up chili on your Coleman to give away, that’s fine. No open fires! This is not Editor's Note a “no fun” issue; it is a safety issue. I know I have not covered every question and I know that I don’t have all the answers, If you have articles or photos of cookoffs or events in your area but I do know how to find them. Please contact me with any concerns that you may you would like to share with the CASI community, please send have. If you are not showing this year and would like to be a show judge, let me know them to me and I will publish them if space permits. or look me up at the Great Peppers Meeting. Bucky Bob Steinle [email protected] September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 5 CASI Membership Report Scholarship Recipient Update

Mikie McGarity - Membership Chairperson Dear Hut Brown and CASI:

I just wanted to keep you up to date on what was going on with me at Texas A&M. So Thank you to all of our members who have renewed their annual far everything is going great. I am keeping up with all of my studies and I will begin upper- dues. If you have a question about your membership, please call level business courses toward my management degree this coming fall. I am also me (817) 975-2200 or email me ([email protected].) It is so staying very involved in extracurricular activities. I am currently the Vice-Chair of the encouraging to receive all the new membership applications – Aggie Recruitment Committee, the VP for Internal Affairs for the 12th Man Student both individuals and corporate. To see our members renew and Foundation, and VP of Special Events for the Reed Rowdies. This should be a great year. reaffirm their faith in the CASI organization is very gratifying. If I am ready for my junior year to start so that I can continue to make my family proud. you see any of these members at cookoffs in your area, I I would like to thank you and CASI for the scholarship, because it is definitely helping encourage you to make a new friend and extend a warm CASI to make my dream a reality. welcome. Thank you. PLEASE NOTE: ADDRESS FOR MEMBERSHIP--150 CR 3579, Paradise, TX 76073 Ryan McAdams Class of 2009, Fightin’ Texas Aggie Due to technical difficulties, membership will not be listed this month. A full membership report will be made at the Great Pepper's Meeting. All new and renewing memberships, including corporate membership will be listed next month. TallyWhackers

Qualified As Of It’s September already! This Chili Year has really gone by all too quickly. September is really an exciting month in the Chili August 15, 2007 Year; we start with the Great Peppers Meeting, then there’s the final charge to qualify (sometimes I watch, this year I’m participating) and then we ramp-up the TICC preparations. COOKS 318 Bert Centers, Lisle IL 282 Nancy Coultas, Tucson AZ 319 Sylvia Riordan, Wichita Falls TX Looking at the list of qualified cooks, it appears I’ll be busy 283 Roger Koltz, Palmyra VA 320 Gloria Molitor, St. Charles IL between now and TICC. Between now and the time I leave for Terlingua, I expect to qualify 284 Brent Allen, George West TX 321 Rick Davis, Boerne TX another 130 cooks and forty show teams. Hopefully sooner than later. Our President has 285 Reva Weatherly, Canyon Lake TX 322 Julie Darley, Canyon Lake TX decreed that all Directors are to be on site by Monday, October 29. This means I will be 286 Tom J. Klug, Gold Canyon AZ 323 Pat Dreibrodt, Comfort TX leaving Illinois on Saturday, October 27, which makes October a short month. 287 Frances Sullivan, Ennis TX 324 Chunkie Harwell, Seguin TX 288 Bonnie Loxterman, Rowlett TX 325 Nadine Karnei, Weesatche TX Over the past couple of years, the referees have responded to my requests to get September 289 Fred Lazarus, San Angelo TX 326 Matthew “Matt” Rumelhart, Katy TX paperwork to me quickly. For this I am very grateful, as are the cooks and show teams who 290 Tom Cook, Marble Falls TX 327 Candice Thomas, Naperville IL qualify at season’s end. My job is to make sure that every cook and show that qualifies for 291 Charmaine Rogers, San Antonio TX 328 Paul A. Rowlan, Bryant AR TICC, gets invited to TICC. But I need your help. Let’s keep up the very good work. 292 Kerri Buck, Norman OK 293 Deborah (Debbie) Bond, Jones OK SHOW TEAMS The procedures established for TICC registration will see no changes from the last few years 294 Lil Drake, Houston TX and I’ll go over them next month. One of the areas that causes people some confusion is 295 Bruce Wilkins, Houston TX contestant shirts, so I’ll review our policy at this time. 135 Just For Fun, Lindale TX 296 Maxine Reed, Schertz TX Conley, Bob 297 Michael A Mayorga, Seabrook TX It is our intention to make sure that each qualified cook and each qualified show team captain, 136 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX 298 Mike Usiak, Chicago IL Blackburn, Vickie who registers at TICC, receives a contestant shirt. (Yes, if you qualify in both chili and show, 299 Dick DeiTos, Fairfax VA 137 Royal Flush, Weimar TX you are entitled to two shirts.) The biggest challenge is to make sure we have the proper 300 Jim Parker, Alexandria VA Barkley, Jean H. size for each contestant. We’re not there yet, but working on it. One of the side-effects of 301 Sherril Lloyd, San Angelo TX 138 No Mercy, Tulsa OK this effort is that we purchase more shirts than we will give out. The resulting surplus is 302 David McKee, Rockwall TX Keirsey, Janet offered to qualified cooks and show team captains, who could not attend TICC, on a first 303 Mike Bryan, Wichita Falls TX 139 Los Tres Pendejos, Sierra Vista AZ come first served basis; no guarantee that your size will be available. If you designate 304 Carol Gibbs, Iowa Park TX Berry, Ben someone to pick up a shirt for you, they must bring your qualification postcard as an 305 Clint Wooster, Wichita Falls TX 140 Sodexho, Conklin NY authorization that they can get your shirt. Also, your CASI dues must be current, just as 306 Bradley “Lew” Wheeling, Reading PA Enright, John if you were going to cook or show. The shirts will be available at 2:30 pm on Friday, after 307 Charles “Chip” Welsh, Red Lion PA 141 Buffalo Gals Chili, Denton TX the close of registration. 308 Margie Magill, Annapolis MD Allcorn, Cathy 309 John Enright, Conklin NY 142 Black Bear Chili, Huntley IL Now is the time to be checking your points. You can now do it online on the CIS, you can 310 Ann Grossman, Corning NY Martin, Kathy email me ([email protected]), or you can call me (630/879-7934). Please check; if you 311 George “Rocky” Rockwell 143 Karma-dillo Chili, Naperville IL Rochester NY feel you have qualified and have not received a postcard notifying you of this fact in a Thomas, Candice 312 Bob Cagle, Bigelow AR reasonable amount of time, please let me know. Don’t wait until October when it’s too late 144 CMFT Chili, Seguin TX 313 Chuck Spishock to get any more points. Harwell, Chunkie Clear Lake Shores TX 145 Babe Watch, San Antonio TX 314 Ed Nesbitt, Houston TX Bill Pierson Gillen Jr, James 315 Mike Stevens, Homer Glen IL 146 No Skill Chili, Chicago IL CASI TallyMaster 316 Gloria Stevens, Homer Glen IL Gustafson, Patrick 317 Julie Netser, Seymour IN Page 6 Terlingua Trails September 2007 Bess’ Best Looks like Austin’s rodeo days may be done for a while this year. Two weeks ago he was trying to be like Harry & I (the person who can never say NO), when someone wants help. He injured his left knee (hyper-extended it) and did damage below the knee cap. He went Hello to all from the triple-digit heat oven of Southwest to a specialist in St. Louis and if therapy works, a slow recovery. But if not, surgery and Missouri; that beautiful brown place that not 3 months ago that will mean a longer time on the disabled list. had more water and rain than we knew what to do with. We are paying for it in August like all the rest of the Midwest and Starting to get warm sitting here at the desk typing, so I am going to go wet the wash clothes central United States is doing. The first three days of August I have draped over the fan. Well, I saved this for last because I am not one to go around we had pleasant days and very comfortable nights. Then bragging about what the Good Lord gave me talent to do. BAM! The triple digits came. This morning when Harry let Precious go outside to potty at 3:00 a.m., it was 87 degrees. I mentioned last month about getting the telephone call from Iraq telling me of the chili cookoff and the cook and his team who won it. Since then I have received several more calls All I can say is if you do have to be or work outside in this heat, please be careful and don’t from Iraq just wanting to hear friendly voices from the good ole’ USA and thanking me for be like Harry and let it creep up on you. The two big hospitals in Springfield have been letting them use my recipe. They plan to have a chili cookoff each year. Maybe we could running spots hourly on the heat and how you should try to stay safe. They say that once get it as a CASI cookoff?? you feel or show the symptoms that it is almost too late; you have already suffered damage. Oh, I know they tell you to drink plenty of liquids and take more breaks than usual. Then It was decided at the MO/KAN Pod Meeting the night before the Missouri State Chili they go on to say you should stay indoors out of the heat and limit your outside activities Cookoff that we would send articles connected with CASI and chili to Kevin Reibel and the to cooler times of the day. But it is bad when you have to be outside to pay the bills and Hillbilly Chili Team in Iraq, as well as making all of them Lifetime Members of the MO/KAN buy the groceries. I guess we will live through all this. Chili Pod.

When I took Harry’s computer to Springfield the first of the week for repairs, I went to the I know there are more of our men, women, boys, and girls who are serving in the Middle East discount stores and picked up 3 more box fans and a couple of little ones. Seems like all who would be overjoyed to be adopted by a CASI member, chili cook, or even another pod. the fans do is move hot air, but at least you can spray yourself with a bottle of water and If any of you out there are interested, please contact me and I will get with Kevin for names get some temporary relief. Harry & I, like many other people in Lamar, have central air and addresses. conditioning but can’t run it due to the expense of the electric bill. KY-3 television in Springfield, Missouri went into great depth, as has The Lamar Democrat, About 4 years ago when things were really rosy and everything seemed to be going good in covering this. The best way to see and read this is to go to the following web sites: for Lamar and the Big Factory (which closed in July), the City of Lamar entered into an electrical power agreement with KAMO of Oklahoma and the Southwest Power www.lamardemocrat.com - Under keyword enter Chili; issue date enter 7/14/07; should open Administration for the amount we paid per kilowatt or however they measure electricity. to “Bess’s Best Recipe Wins in Iraq”. The deal was the more we purchased, the cheaper it was. Well that was then and now is a different story. “The Big O” is gone, the other two factories have cut their workforces www.ky3.com - Scroll down the left hand side under the Search ky3 and type in Chili Iraq. and production, so less juice is being purchased. The end result being that the individual Article is first news and video story – “Recipe Unites Award Winning Cook with Ex-solider households have to pay more. “Life and Trying to Survive in a Small Town” - never a dull in Iraq”. moment. On a final note, I want to thank each and every one of you who attended, helped with the Before we go any farther, congratulations to all the new CASI officers and officials. Harry Cooks’ Party, and cooked in the 2007 Missouri State Chili Cookoff in Golden City. The and I are certain that all of you will do the duties of your position and the best for CASI beautiful park and the small town atmosphere were enjoyed by all. At this time, I can’t tell and chili. you if the cookoff will remain in Golden City or not.

th I am trying to get things done for the first of September, or actually the 7 , when (as the It never fails that just when things are going good, somebody or something has to go and way the government looks at it) I will be retired. The closer it gets and the more things I ruin it. It is nothing done by any of the chili cooks or CASI. It goes back to the small have to complete and be told I can’t do this or that, I don’t think the whole thing is worth hometown atmosphere - a 2-day BBQ contest with a beer garden open to the public. Life all the hassle. is too short to worry and fight.

I’m not going to go through all the baloney of having to have three birth certificates, drive The ole’ John Deere Tractor clock is slowing down and so am I, so “Thank You for Your to Joplin for part of Social Security, then to Springfield for more of it. Then there are all of Time This Time” and until next time “Remember to Start Slow these Privacy Act papers. Oh, then all the medical stuff just to find out that I am not eligible & Then Taper Off”. for Social Security or any benefits.

I was a federal employee and Social Security was not taken out of my salary, only retirement. Bess & Harry Harry got something in the mail the other day saying that he will not be officially retired and eligible for all the goodies until sometime in September, even though he turned 65 in January.

One thing I did notice is that they have raised the amount of money you can earn after your Didn't buy at TICC, you still can retirement age, or at least for Harry. What good is that going to do when you are limited medically and there are just not that many jobs on the market for older people? Harry keeps Long Sleeve T-Shirts, Bandanas, Baseball Shirts, telling me we need to run for political office, because most of the elected officials we see on the television are old goats like us and living high on the hog. Tank Tops, Ladies T-Shirts, Bumper Stickers and Window Decals. Aprons, CASI Window Shades, Tote Several years ago (7 to be exact), Jim Stateczny asked me if maybe I would like to write something to go into The Trails each month and I said sure. With the help of Harry, we Bags. 2006 Posters and some previous years have been trying to send something out each month that will be a little interesting for you available. to read. In case you don’t know it, ask any person who writes an article or column on a regular basis how hard it is. Sort of what someone famous said once, “You can please Dorathy Williams 1-888-227-4468 or email some of the people some of the time, but you can’t please all the people all the time.” [email protected]

September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 7 Cook Off Winners

Jun 16, 2007-006 - Woodbridge VA Jun 30, 2007-004 - Binghamton NY 7 Craig Harris, Sierra Vista AZ Jul 7, 2007-002 - Marathon TX 4th Annual Belmont Bay CCO, 16 CHILIS The Great New York State Chili CCO, 16 8 Patti Kunstman, Sierra Vista AZ 3rd Annual Cowboy Chili Cookoff, 32 CHILI WINNERS CHILIS 9 Kathy “Kat” Tomlin, Sierra Vista AZ CHILIS 1 Christine (Chris) Johnson CHILI WINNERS 10 John C. Johnson, Sierra Vista AZ CHILI WINNERS Harrisburg PA 1 Douglas Johnson, Harrisburg PA SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Lynn Hejtmancik, Buda TX 2 Daniel E. “Dan” Bauer 2 Christine (Chris) Johnson 1 Los Tres Pendejos, Sierra Vista AZ 2 Kathy Boone, Odessa TX Alexandria VA Harrisburg PA Ben Berry 3 Douglas “Bucky” Seelig 3 Janie Bauer, Alexandria VA 3 Pete Little, Houston TX 2 Fab Fifties Face Paint Fredericksburg TX 4 Jim Parker, Alexandria VA 4 Judi Omerza, Wilkes Barre PA Sierra Vista AZ 4 Connie Collier, Snyder TX 5 Kim Eckley, Frederick MD 5 John Enright, Conklin NY Gail Fisher 5 Nancy Coultas, Tucson AZ 6 John Iaquinta, Severna Park MD 6 Ann Grossman, Corning NY 3 Dragon Chili, Sierra Vista AZ 6 Larry George, Dallas TX 7 Jenny Windsor, Baltimore MD 7 Bradley “Lew” Wheeling, Reading PA Dara Hannon 7 Jean H. Barkley, Weimar TX 8 Roger Koltz, Palmyra VA 8 George “Rocky” Rockwell 8 David “Red Bean” Boone, Odessa TX 9 Douglas Johnson, Harrisburg PA Rochester NY Jul 4, 2007-003 - Tyler TX 9 Scott Johnson, Englewood FL 10 Jack Windsor, Baltimore MD 9 Rich Omerza, Wilkes Barre PA Jaycees 4th of July Cookoff, 24 CHILIS 10 Janita Hinds, Del Rio TX 10 David G. Grossman, Corning NY CHILI WINNERS SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Jun 17, 2007-002 - Pylesville MD SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Bonnie Loxterman, Rowlett TX 1 Royal Flush, Weimar TX 3rd Annual Fiore Winery Cookoff, 18 1 Sodexho, Conklin NY 2 Toni Bowman, Rowlett TX Jean H. Barkley CHILIS John Enright 3 Jack Jameson, Tyler TX 2 Snake Oil, Del Rio TX CHILI WINNERS 2 Wild Willies Chili, Binghamton NY 4 Vicki Esford, Trinity TX Janita Hinds 1 Bradley “Lew” Wheeling, Reading PA Bill Finch 5 Pam Jameson, Tyler TX 3 UNCLAIMED 2 Daniel E. “Dan” Bauer 3 Fireworks, Corning NY 6 Roger Foltz, Mesquite TX Alexandria VA Ann Grossman 7 Jena Whitehead, Dallas TX Jul 8, 2007-001 - Marathon TX 3 Charles “Chip” Welsh, Red Lion PA 8 Meredith Martin, Frisco TX 3rd Annual Cowboy Sunday Chili CCO, 4 Jim Parker, Alexandria VA Jun 30, 2007-007 - Nowhere AZ 9 Bryan McFarlin, Bullard TX 27 CHILIS 5 Brian W. Smith, New Oxford PA Borrow Inn Lounge CCO, 15 CHILIS 10 Mark Martin, Frisco TX CHILI WINNERS 6 Douglas Johnson, Harrisburg PA CHILI WINNERS SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Craig Carter, Marathon TX 7 Christine (Chris) Johnson 1 Jerry D. Lee, Wittmann AZ 1 Buffalo Gals Chili, Denton TX 2 Kathy Boone, Odessa TX Harrisburg PA 2 Tim Sr. Wasik, Kingman AZ Cathy Allcorn 3 Connie Collier, Snyder TX 8 Jack Windsor, Baltimore MD 3 Mary Ellen Smith, Glendale AZ 2 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX 4 Roger Bains, Rankin TX 9 Janie Bauer, Alexandria VA 4 Debbie Wasik, Kingman AZ Vickie Blackburn 5 Tim Collier, Snyder TX 10 Margie Magill, Annapolis MD 5 Phillip L Gutierrez, Wittmann AZ 3 Renegade Chili Rovers II 6 Douglas “Bucky” Seelig 6 Sandi L Lee, Wittmann AZ Trinity TX Fredericksburg TX Jun 30, 2007-002 - Mitchell NE 7 Steven L Smith, Glendale AZ Vicki Esford 7 Lynn Hejtmancik, Buda TX Mitchell Concert in the Park Chili, 15 8 Mel Pfaff, Cottonwood AZ 8 Larry George, Dallas TX CHILIS 9 Dennis Huff, Wittmann AZ Jul 7, 2007-001 - Georgetown TX 9 David “Red Bean” Boone, Odessa TX CHILI WINNERS 10 Maxine N Lee, Cornville AZ H-E-B /Georgetown, 34 CHILIS 10 Scott Johnson, Englewood FL 1 Amy Rupp, Gering NE SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS CHILI WINNERS 2 Cheryl Rupp, Gering NE 1 Deb’s Rt 66 Chili Fix, Kingman AZ 1 Larry “Doc” Kinnison Jul 14, 2007-002 - Schertz TX 3 Dwayne Davis, Morrill NE Debbie Wasik Marble Falls TX Summer Heat Cookoff, 39 CHILIS 4 Norm Haberman, Mitchell NE 2 Alchemist Chili, Wittmann AZ 2 Charmaine Rogers, San Antonio TX CHILI WINNERS 5 Scott Harris, Scottsbluff NE Jerry D. Lee 3 Alan Dean, Johnson City TX 1 Ray Calhoun, Waxahachie TX 6 Andy Cook, Gering NE 3 Texas Hot Stuff, Wittmann AZ 4 Carrie Kinnison, Marble Falls TX 2 Barbara Schueler, Leander TX 7 Judy Haberman, Scottsbluff NE Dennis Huff 5 Donna Conrad, Crawford TX 3 Brent Allen, George West TX 8 Mike Jay, Mitchell NE 6 Billy Doss, Georgetown TX 4 Fread E. Cielencki Sr 9 Kyle Haberman, Scottsbluff NE Jul 4, 2007-002 - Sierra Vista AZ 7 Helen Conley, Lindale TX San Antonio TX 10 Susie Haberman, Mitchell NE 17th Annual Welcome Home Desert, 33 8 Greg Martin, Leander TX 5 Rick Davis, Boerne TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS CHILIS 9 Stephanie Daugherty, Leander TX 6 Reva Weatherly, Canyon Lake TX 1 White Knuckle Chili, Scottsbluff NE CHILI WINNERS 10 Kevin Daugherty, Leander TX 7 Sally Lee, San Antonio TX Kyle Haberman 1 Jim Tomlin, Sierra Vista AZ SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 8 Margaret Nadeau, Boerne TX 2 Scott’s Hot Trottin’ 2 Fran Phillips, Sierra Vista AZ 1 Just For Fun, Lindale TX 9 Steve Nadeau, Boerne TX Scottsbluff NE 3 Sunny Fichtl, Sierra Vista AZ Bob Conley 10 Billy Bob Weatherly, Canyon Lake TX Scott Harris 4 Kimberly A. (Kim) Dunn 2 Copenhagen Lady, San Antonio TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 3 Bahama Mama’s, Gering NE Sierra Vista AZ Connie Sue Schrade 1 Babe Watch, San Antonio TX Cheryl Rupp 5 Mike Strack, Sierra Vista AZ 3 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX James Gillen Jr 6 Lynette Land, Sierra Vista AZ Vickie Blackburn 2 Athletic Supporter, Boerne TX Page 8 Terlingua Trails September 2007 Rick Davis Debbie Gray 3 Cloverleaf #2, San Antonio TX 2 Girls Night Out, Little Rock AR Fread E. Cielencki Sr Roxann (Ann) Kyzer 3 Pseudo Chili, Little Rock AR Jul 14, 2007-003 - Overgaard AZ Lee Jackson 9th Chili Cookoff in the Pines, 15 CHILIS CHILI WINNERS Jul 14, 2007-007 - Del Rio TX 1 Tom J. Klug, Gold Canyon AZ 2nd Annual Rough Canyon Lighthouse, 2 Willie Raven, Phoenix AZ 16 CHILIS 3 Bernard “Bernie” Kowalski CHILI WINNERS Gilbert AZ 1 Janita Hinds, Del Rio TX 4 Karen Banas, Queen Creek AZ 2 Rich Mead, Del Rio TX 5 Dennis Huff, Wittmann AZ 3 Lynn Wipff, Sonora TX 6 Pamela (Pam) Diffin, Cottonwood AZ 4 Mikeal Germany, Del Rio TX 7 C Q “Chris” Cannon, Queen Creek AZ 5 Freddie Martinez, Del Rio TX 8 Scott Hamilton, Queen Creek AZ 6 John Goforth, Comfort TX 9 John Banas, Queen Creek AZ 7 Kelly Thorp, Sonora TX 10 Milly Kowalski, Gilbert AZ 8 Rhonda Parham, Del Rio TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 9 Gary Gibson, Eldorado TX 1 Ric Chili, Amarillo TX Bettie Spears 1 Magic Chili, Gilbert AZ 10 Mike Manning, Eldorado TX Carl Galab 3 RotorHeads Mediflight, Arcadia Bernard “Bernie” Kowalski SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 2 Wacko Willy, Amarillo TX OK 2 Rev-Rind Will-I Chil-I, Phoenix AZ 1 Totally Wacked II, Sonora TX Pat Carroll Tara Crow-deSteiguer Willie Raven Lynn Wipff 3 UNCLAIMED 3 Doctor Chili, Fountain Hills AZ 2 Farm Boy Chili, Blackwell TX Jul 14, 2007-012 - Shannon IL Travis Tonzi Jim Bennett Jul 14, 2007-010 - West Tawakoni TX Behind the Fence Chili Cookoff, 3 BFCU, Del Rio TX West Tawakoni AM Vets Cookoff, 31 CHILIS 16 CHILIS Jul 14, 2007-004 - Bloomfield IA Rich Mead CHILI WINNERS CHILI WINNERS 4th Annual Cookoff, 15 CHILIS 1 Danny Strunc, Ennis TX 1 Kathy Martin, Huntley IL CHILI WINNERS Jul 14, 2007-008 - Crosby TX 2 David McKee, Rockwall TX 2 Bret Centers, Lisle IL 1 Roylene Johnson, Ottumwa IA Bob & Jeans 4th Annual, 30 CHILIS 3 Eric Williams, Terrell TX 3 Wes Carlson, Loves Park IL 2 Mark Zimmerman, Cedar Rapids IA CHILI WINNERS 4 Frances Sullivan, Ennis TX 4 Randy Metz, Lombard IL 3 Dennis Bertling, Cedar Rapids IA 1 Michael A Mayorga, Seabrook TX 5 Shirley Sexton, Dallas TX 5 Georgia Weller, Davis IL 4 Gerald “Gary” Christensen 2 Bruce Wilkins, Houston TX 6 Danny Campbell, Cedar Hill TX 6 Ed Dorfler, Grayslake IL Cedar Rapids IA 3 Malcolm Williams, Beaumont TX 7 Bonnie Loxterman, Rowlett TX 7 John Gastaldello, Downers 5 Virgil Johnson, Ottumwa IA 4 Karin Barnes, Houston TX 8 Gale Thedford, Lewisville TX Grove IL 6 Shari Bertling, Cedar Rapids IA 5 Ed Nesbitt, Houston TX 9 Morris Moss, Garland TX 8 Mike Usiak, Chicago IL 7 David E. Thordarson, Bloomfield IA 6 Monteia Davidson, Waller TX 10 Gary Kennedy, Mesquite TX 9 Gloria Molitor, St. Charles IL 8 Mary Ann Priester, Bloomfield IA 7 Helen Conley, Lindale TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 10 Frank Ripley, Machesney Park 9 Carl Thordarson, Ottumwa IA 8 Lil Drake, Houston TX 1 Slow Byrne Chili, Malakoff TX IL 10 James C. Wolfe, Cedar Rapids IA 9 Teena G. Miller, Baytown TX Karen Byrne SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 10 G. Taylor Miller, Baytown TX 2 Mis’Da’Meanor Chili, Quinlan TX 1 Gosto’s Chicago Chili 1 Rapid Dispatch Chili SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Candy Schultz Downers Grove IL Cedar Rapids IA 1 Faded Love, Houston TX 3 Road Warriors Roadkill Chili Brew John Gastaldello Gerald “Gary” Christensen Joe Braden Terrell TX 2 No Skill Chili, Chicago IL 2 UNCLAIMED 2 Oil Field Trash, Houston TX Larry Wampler Patrick Gustafson 3 UNCLAIMED Larry Hammock 3 Spicy Mike’s, Chicago IL 3 Bambi Bimbo, Pasadena TX Jul 14, 2007-011 - Midwest City OK Mike Usiak Jul 14, 2007-005 - North Little Rock AR Roy Davis Oklahoma State Open Chili, 32 CHILIS ASS-CASI Pod Cookoff, 20 CHILIS CHILI WINNERS Jul 14, 2007-013 - San Angelo TX CHILI WINNERS Jul 14, 2007-009 - Amarillo TX 1 Kerri Buck, Norman OK State School Special Project, 22 1 Bob Cagle, Bigelow AR Moose Lodge Cookoff, 22 CHILIS 2 Deborah (Debbie) Bond, Jones OK CHILIS 2 Erma W. Smith, Fort Smith AR CHILI WINNERS 3 Lorinda Crawford, Broken Arrow OK CHILI WINNERS 3 Preston Nickle 1 Mike Parker, Trinidad CO 4 Gene Bond, Jones OK 1 Sherry J. Maus, San Angelo TX North Little Rock AR 2 Carol Lilly, Amarillo TX 5 Bob Alexander, Tulsa OK 2 Sherril Lloyd, San Angelo TX 4 Bo Prewitt, North Little Rock AR 3 Susan Campbell, Amarillo TX 6 Tammy Buck, Norman OK 3 David “Red Bean” Boone, 5 Bruce Smith, Little Rock AR 4 Steven A. Lopez, Pampa TX 7 Jake Jenkins, Guthrie OK Odessa TX 6 Guy E. Smith, Fort Smith AR 5 Pam Gonzales, Amarillo TX 8 Bettie Spears, Shawnee OK 4 Fran Miller, San Angelo TX 7 Debby Cagle, Bigelow AR 6 Kelly Burkham, Amarillo TX 9 Steve Coleman, Norman OK 5 Sue Yates, San Angelo TX 8 James Mosley, Little Rock AR 7 Amanda McDonald, Amarillo TX 10 Joe Spears, Shawnee OK 6 Fred Lazarus, San Angelo TX 9 Lee Bailey, Maumelle AR 8 Gene Broyles, Amarillo TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 7 Jim Miller, San Angelo TX 10 Paul A. Rowlan, Bryant AR 9 LaMont Fisher, Amarillo TX 1 No Mercy, Tulsa OK 8 Joann Scott, Odessa TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 10 Millie Bingham, Amarillo TX Janet Keirsey 9 Roger Bains, Rankin TX 1 Parrot Head Chili, Greenwood AR SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 2 BJ’s Cathouse Chili, Shawnee OK 10 Jackie Rogge, Odessa TX September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 9 Page 10 Terlingua Trails September 2007

1 Lil Drake, Houston TX Felix Russell 1 Amy Hardesty, Aurora CO 2 Bruce Wilkins, Houston TX 2 Mr. Tracy Chili, Odessa TX 2 Alan Dean, Johnson City TX 3 Ed Nesbitt, Houston TX Mike Tracy 3 Steve Lee, Longmont CO 4 Matthew “Matt” Rumelhart, Katy TX 3 Smart Ass Chili, Odessa TX 4 Karen Hendricks, Broomfield CO 5 Ed Blair, Houston TX Doretta “Dodie” Simpson 5 Stephanie Lee, Longmont CO 6 Pete Little, Houston TX 6 Tom Parish, Cheyenne WY 7 Maxine Reed, Schertz TX Jul 21, 2007-005 - Wichita Falls TX 7 Janelle Spencer, Roseville CA 8 Michael A Mayorga, Seabrook TX Sons of the American Legion SQ 120, 31 8 Susan Dean, Johnson City TX 9 Pat Krenek, Houston TX CHILIS 9 Art Schoenman, Longmont CO 10 Tom Esford, Trinity TX CHILI WINNERS 10 Tara King, Parker CO SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Clint Wooster, Wichita Falls TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Lizard Lick’n Chili, Houston TX 2 Dennis H. Jackson, Iowa Park TX 1 2 Brothers Chili, Parker CO Bruce Wilkins 3 Jerry D. Dickerson, Shawnee OK Mark Tinsley 2 NDC Chili, Houston TX 4 Jena Whitehead, Dallas TX 2 Tara’s Green, Tara’s Red, Parker Keith Karaff 5 Mike Bryan, Wichita Falls TX CO 3 Cat Sass Chili, Baytown TX 6 Barry Thompson, Wichita Falls TX Tara King SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Diane Spence Barker 7 Steven A. Lopez, Pampa TX 3 Lighthouse Cafe, Parker CO 1 Willies Chili, San Angelo TX 8 Jo Ann Gaines, Wichita Falls TX Rick Kacir Fran Miller Jul 15, 2007-004 - San Angelo TX 9 Sherry Muhlbauer, Wichita Falls TX 2 Miss Kitty’s Chili, San Angelo TX Christmas in July CCO, 15 CHILIS 10 Vic Lambert, Sanger TX Jul 21, 2007-008 - Cloudcroft NM Sue Yates CHILI WINNERS SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 17th Annual Cloudcroft CCO, 42 3 TLC, Odessa TX 1 Fred Lazarus, San Angelo TX 1 Burnt Orange Chili, Sanger TX CHILIS Joann Scott 2 Rick Martinez, San Angelo TX Vic Lambert CHILI WINNERS 3 Dennis Terwilliger, Christoval TX 2 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX 1 Kim Dvorak, Reno NV Jul 14, 2007-014 - Severna Park MD 4 Rory Randolph, San Angelo TX Vickie Blackburn 2 Tim Collier, Snyder TX Mason Dixon Pod Cookoff, 20 CHILIS 5 Sherril Lloyd, San Angelo TX 3 UNCLAIMED 3 Patsy Elliott, El Paso TX CHILI WINNERS 6 Nancy Martinez, San Angelo TX 4 Larry George, Dallas TX 1 Janie Bauer, Alexandria VA 7 Dena Martinez, San Angelo TX Jul 21, 2007-006 - Parker CO 5 Sylvia Riordan, Wichita Falls TX 2 Dick DeiTos, Fairfax VA 8 Cliff Miller, San Angelo TX Holy Smokes Chili Cookoff, 15 CHILIS 6 Hut Brown, El Paso TX 3 Jim Parker, Alexandria VA 9 Janice Miller, San Angelo TX CHILI WINNERS 7 Carol Straughan, El Paso TX 4 Margie Magill, Annapolis MD 10 Sammie Plant, San Angelo TX 5 Douglas Johnson, Harrisburg PA 6 Charles “Chip” Welsh, Red Lion PA Jul 21, 2007-001 - Poolville TX 7 Nancy Bremer, Upper Marlboro MD 2nd Annual Armadillo Resort CCO, 26 8 John Iaquinta, Severna Park MD CHILIS 9 Tom Jenkins, Pasadena MD CHILI WINNERS 10 Daniel E. “Dan” Bauer 1 Lisa R Duggan, Many LA Alexandria VA 2 Lester McElyea, Allen TX 3 Kevin Wooster, Wichita Falls TX Jul 15, 2007-001 - Schertz TX 4 Ron Barnes, Euless TX Sunday Summer Heat CCO, 27 CHILIS 5 Suzie Manske, Arlington TX CHILI WINNERS 6 Tina Barnes, Euless TX 1 Elaine Lopez, San Antonio TX 7 David McKee, Rockwall TX 2 Tom Cook, Marble Falls TX 8 Roger Foltz, Mesquite TX 3 Charmaine Rogers, San Antonio TX 9 David Manske, Arlington TX 4 James Gillen Jr, San Antonio TX 10 Dee Palmer, Mansfield TX 5 Mari Capehart, Seguin TX 6 Mary Stevens, Canyon Lake TX Jul 21, 2007-004 - Odessa TX 7 Janet Cielencki, San Antonio TX The Sons of the American Legion CCO, 8 Joyce Jowers, San Antonio TX 20 CHILIS 9 Sally Lee, San Antonio TX CHILI WINNERS 10 Ray Calhoun, Waxahachie TX 1 Amy Patton, Odessa TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 2 Richard R. Scott, Odessa TX 1 Cloverleaf #2, San Antonio TX 3 Phyllis Patton, Odessa TX Fread E. Cielencki Sr 4 Keith Patton, Odessa TX 2 Babe Watch, San Antonio TX 5 Lee Roy Childress, Midland TX James Gillen Jr 6 Doretta “Dodie” Simpson, Odessa TX 3 Buzzard Roost, Weesatche TX 7 Gregg Wilson, Odessa TX Barry Karnei 8 Cliff Miller, San Angelo TX 9 Roxana Patton, Odessa TX Jul 15, 2007-003 - Crosby TX 10 Mike Tracy, Odessa TX Bob & Jeans Day After Cookoff, 20 SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS CHILIS 1 Horse Collar Chili, Seminole TX CHILI WINNERS September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 11

8 Lynn Hejtmancik, Buda TX 4 Roy Huston, Wichita Falls TX 9 Connie Collier, Snyder TX 5 Donell Dickerson, Shawnee OK 10 Bobby Elliott, El Paso TX 6 Glyn Gaines, Wichita Falls TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 7 Clint Wooster, Wichita Falls TX 1 Mutant Chili II, Wichita Falls TX 8 Vickie Blackburn, Sanger TX Sylvia Riordan 9 C R “Bob” Luney, Iowa Park TX 2 Catch You Later, High Rolls NM 10 Meredith Martin, Frisco TX Ed Thomas SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 3 Texas Wrangler Chili, El Paso TX 1 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX Donna Von Gentz Vickie Blackburn 2 UNCLAIMED Jul 21, 2007-010 - Conway AR 3 UNCLAIMED CAP-CASI Pod Cookoff and Elections, 23 CHILIS Jul 28, 2007-001 - Austin TX CHILI WINNERS Lone Star Weekend, 73 CHILIS 1 Dick Wagner, Little Rock AR CHILI WINNERS 2 Preston Nickle 1 Chuck Spishock North Little Rock AR Clear Lake Shores TX 3 Bo Prewitt, North Little Rock AR 2 Sherrie Davis, South Houston TX 4 Carol Zimmerman, Perry AR 3 Ray Medlin, Rowlett TX 5 Donna Jones, Roland AR 4 Jessie Waguespack, Austin TX 6 Lee Bailey, Maumelle AR 5 Earl W. “Who?” Gorhum 7 Linda Nickle, North Little Rock AR Montgomery TX 8 Glenda Johnston, Maumelle AR 6 Ruby Ross, Marble Falls TX 9 Jim Smith, Little Rock AR 7 George K Jowers III, San Antonio TX 10 Bruce Smith, Little Rock AR 8 Debbie Ashman, Bastrop TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 9 Tim Collier, Snyder TX 1 Cat Scratch Chili, Roland AR 10 Dianne Stimson, Crawford TX Donna Jones SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 2 Cock O’ the Walk, Jacksonville AR 1 Hell-If-I-Know, Martindale TX Dallas Gipson Bert “Bubba” Reinke 3 Spikies Chili, Benton AR 2 Cowgirl Attitude, Sanger TX Terry Callahan Vickie Blackburn 3 Buffalo Gals Chili, Denton TX Jul 22, 2007-003 - Cloudcroft NM Cathy Allcorn NMCS Pod CCO, 29 CHILIS CHILI WINNERS Jul 28, 2007-002 - North Little Rock AR 1 Kathy Hulme, Hobbs NM Elk’s Indoor Cookoff, 15 CHILIS 2 Janita Hinds, Del Rio TX CHILI WINNERS 3 William E “Bill” Riordan 1 Preston Nickle Wichita Falls TX North Little Rock AR 4 Bobby Elliott, El Paso TX 2 Lee Jackson, Little Rock AR 5 Larry George, Dallas TX 3 Lee Bailey, Maumelle AR 6 Roger Bains, Rankin TX 4 J.D. “Butch” Lott, Benton AR 7 Mary L. Rogers, La Luz NM 5 Richard “Rick” Williams, Memphis 8 Paul Mulkey, Hobbs NM TN 9 David “Red Bean” Boone, Odessa TX 6 Chris Ray, Benton AR 10 Kim Dvorak, Reno NV 7 Linda Nickle, North Little Rock AR SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 8 Michael (Mike) Brown, Memphis TN 1 Mutant Chili II, Wichita Falls TX 9 Dick Wagner, Little Rock AR Sylvia Riordan 10 Jack Jameson, Tyler TX 2 Silly Chili, Alto NM SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Karen Thomas 1 Hose A’s Firehouse Chili 3 Black Garter, El Paso TX North Little Rock AR Eve DuMond Robert Thorpe 2 Pseudo Chili, Little Rock AR Jul 22, 2007-004 - Wichita Falls TX Lee Jackson American Legion Auxiliary Post 169, 27 3 Girls Night Out, Little Rock AR CHILIS Roxann (Ann) Kyzer CHILI WINNERS 1 Mike Bryan, Wichita Falls TX Jul 28, 2007-003 - Edmond OK 2 Carol Gibbs, Iowa Park TX Cancer For Kids Cookoff, 16 CHILIS 3 Dennis H. Jackson, Iowa Park TX CHILI WINNERS Page 12 Terlingua Trails September 2007 September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 13

1 Doug Atkins, Durant OK 3 Julie Netser, Seymour IN CHILI WINNERS 1st Annual BSOT Pod Cookof, 57 CHILIS 2 Pat French, Wichita Falls TX 4 Bert Centers, Lisle IL 1 Gunter Woodson, Austin TX CHILI WINNERS 3 Joe Spears, Shawnee OK 5 Jim Weller, Bloomfield Hills MI 2 Rick Davis, Boerne TX 1 Carol Gibbs, Iowa Park TX 4 Gene Bond, Jones OK 6 Kathy Martin, Huntley IL 3 Julie Darley, Canyon Lake TX 2 Dennis H. Jackson, Iowa Park TX 5 Shawn Fulton, Telephone TX 7 Dana Plocheck, Houston TX 4 Patricia K. King, Seguin TX 3 William E “Bill” Riordan 6 Richard Atkins, Kingston OK 8 John Gastaldello, Downers Grove IL 5 Pat Dreibrodt, Comfort TX Wichita Falls TX 7 Harvey West, Telephone TX 9 Mike Usiak, Chicago IL 6 Jennifer Lee, San Antonio TX 4 Vicki Sanders, Ennis TX 8 Deborah (Debbie) Bond, Jones OK 10 Georgia Weller, Davis IL 7 Mari Capehart, Seguin TX 5 Chuck Hawthorne, Wichita Falls TX 9 Jerry D. Dickerson, Shawnee OK SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 8 Barry Karnei, Weesatche TX 6 Sherree Duncan 10 Dan French, Wichita Falls TX 1 Black Bear Chili, Huntley IL 9 Chunkie Harwell, Seguin TX North Richland Hills TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Kathy Martin 10 James Gillen Jr, San Antonio TX 7 David Manske, Arlington TX 1 Medflight Rotorheads 2 Karma-dillo Chili, Naperville IL SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 8 Ron Barnes, Euless TX The, Arcadia OK Candice Thomas 1 CMFT Chili, Seguin TX 9 Tina Barnes, Euless TX Tara Crow-deSteiguer 3 Hoosier Mama, Indianapolis IN Chunkie Harwell 10 Dale Reinecker, Bedford TX 2 2nd Wind, Owasso OK Diana Jackson 2 Bulls Eye Chili, San Antonio TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Mike Mayenschein Elaine Lopez 1 These Colors Don’t Run, Shawnee 3 These Colors Don’t Run, Shawnee Jul 29, 2007-001 - Batavia IL 3 Babe Watch, San Antonio TX OK OK 16th Windmill City Chili Cookoff, 20 James Gillen Jr Jerry D. Dickerson Jerry D. Dickerson CHILIS 2 Dream Catcher, Irving TX CHILI WINNERS Aug 4, 2007-003 - Perrin TX Teena “T.J.” Friedel Jul 28, 2007-005 - Castle Rock WA 1 Roylene Johnson, Ottumwa IA Mountain Mania Cookoff, 17 CHILIS 2 Bret Centers, Lisle IL CHILI WINNERS 3 Pam Ward, St. Charles IL 1 Norma Forbord, Portland OR 4 Gloria Molitor, St. Charles IL 2 Al Ruskin, Spanaway WA 5 Virgil Johnson, Ottumwa IA 3 Dick Peterson, Vancouver WA 6 Bert Centers, Lisle IL 4 Gordon Forbord, Portland OR 7 George Molitor, St. Charles IL 5 Katrina Tomal, Tacoma WA 8 Jennifer Pierson Shepherd 6 Judie Anderson, Olympia WA Montgomery IL 7 Betty Jean “BJ” Mayer, Lakebay WA 9 Patrick Gustafson, Chicago IL 8 Dennis Bloomfield, Issaquah WA 10 Diana Jackson, Indianapolis IN 9 Larry Mayer, Lakebay WA SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 10 Calvin Smith, Silver Lake WA 1 Karma-dillo Chili, Naperville IL Candice Thomas Jul 28, 2007-006 - Moulton TX 2 Chili Granmas, St. Charles IL Moulton Town & Country Jamboree, 68 Pam Ward CHILIS 3 Hoosier Mama, Indianapolis IN CHILI WINNERS Diana Jackson 1 John Koch, Moulton TX 2 George Thompson, Houston TX Aug 4, 2007-001 - Schulenburg TX 3 Fread E. Cielencki Sr Schulenburg Festival Chili Cookoff, San Antonio TX 50 CHILIS 4 Tori Green, Victoria TX CHILI WINNERS 5 Phil Greenlees, Houston TX 1 Dana Plocheck, Houston TX 6 Alice Reynolds, Rockport TX 2 Pat Krenek, Houston TX 7 Ronnie Technik, Moulton TX 3 Julie Cloninger, Deer Park TX 8 Ed Nesbitt, Houston TX 4 Ed Green, Victoria TX 9 Mari Capehart, Seguin TX 5 Lanna Fisbeck Cantwell, Weimar TX 10 Pat Krenek, Houston TX 6 Dee Hay, Pasadena TX SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 7 Dwight Hamilton, Rockne TX 1 Medicine Man, Seguin TX 8 Cary Plocheck, Houston TX Carl A. Jaks 9 Ronald Rerich, Weimar TX 2 Lease Crew, Luling TX 10 Jean H. Barkley, Weimar TX Douglas Gibson SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 3 Beer Hunters, The, Moulton TX 1 Lease Crew, Luling TX Donald Haikenwaelder Douglas Gibson 2 Nut-In-To-It, Victoria TX Jul 28, 2007-007 - Batavia IL Tracy Schroeder The Fifteenth Illinois State Open, 38 3 Get ‘er Done Cookers, El Campo TX CHILIS Chad Hensley CHILI WINNERS 1 Mike Stevens, Homer Glen IL Aug 4, 2007-002 - San Antonio TX 2 Gloria Stevens, Homer Glen IL 8th Annual Aces Pod Cookoff, 66 CHILIS Page 14 Terlingua Trails September 2007 3 RK N Rol, Lewisville TX 4 Melodie Smith, San Antonio TX Gale Thedford 5 James Gillen Jr, San Antonio TX 6 Matthew “Matt” Rumelhart, Katy TX Aug 4, 2007-004 - Memphis TN 7 Janet Cielencki, San Antonio TX 5th Annual Al Chymia Shrine CCO, 15 8 Robert Lisherness, San Antonio TX CHILIS 9 Ed Shelton, San Antonio TX CHILI WINNERS 10 Ginger Stiehler, San Antonio TX 1 Paul A. Rowlan, Bryant AR SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 2 Cindy Brown, Memphis TN 1 Cloverleaf #2, San Antonio TX 3 Richard Knight, Lebanon TN Fread E. Cielencki Sr 4 Kristina (Kristi) Knight 2 Babe Watch, San Antonio TX Lebanon TN James Gillen Jr 5 Michael (Mike) Brown, Memphis TN 3 Sr. Buzzard Back Chili 6 Linda Nickle, North Little Rock AR Kerrville TX 7 Preston Nickle Terry L. Tenery North Little Rock AR 8 Carol Knight, Lebanon TN Aug 5, 2007-002 - Chicago IL 9 Mike Tarpley, Memphis TN Windy City Chili Cookoff, 15 CHILIS 10 Wanda Cassini, Collierville TN CHILI WINNERS SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 1 Valerie Castritsis 1 Love Me Tender II, Collierville TN Hilton Head Island SC Wanda Cassini 2 Bert Centers, Lisle IL 2 Thunderbird Chili, Memphis TN 3 Pam Ward, St. Charles IL Mike Tarpley 4 John Gastaldello, Downers Grove IL 3 LDN Chili, North Little Rock AR 5 William C “Bill” Pierson Linda Nickle Batavia IL 6 Jennifer Uhrin, Naperville IL Aug 4, 2007-007 - Fort Smith AR 7 Gloria Molitor, St. Charles IL Fun In The Park, 17 CHILIS 8 Nancy Usiak, Chicago IL CHILI WINNERS 9 Candice Thomas, Naperville IL 1 Randy Gilliam, Greenwood AR 10 Cheryl L. Pierson, Batavia IL 2 Dick Wagner, Little Rock AR 3 James Mosley, Little Rock AR Aug 11, 2007-012 - Addison IL 4 Dara Hopson, Fort Smith AR Addison Community Days Cookoff, 15 5 Debbie Eiland Turner, Waxahachie CHILIS TX CHILI WINNERS 6 Mark Bass, Skiatook OK 1 Patrick Gustafson, Chicago IL 7 Janet Keirsey, Tulsa OK 2 George Molitor, St. Charles IL 8 Barbara Selfridge, Park Hill OK 3 Candice Thomas, Naperville IL 9 Guy E. Smith, Fort Smith AR 4 Kathy Martin, Huntley IL 10 Shane Gilliam, Greenwood AR 5 Bert Centers, Lisle IL SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS 6 Mike Usiak, Chicago IL 1 Road Dawgs, Greenwood AR 7 Charles “Bill” Thomas Randy Gilliam Naperville IL 2 VooDoo Frogs Chili, Fort Smith AR 8 Bret Centers, Lisle IL Patti Watkins 9 Sebert “JR” Jackson Jr 3 Line Gang Chili, Fort Smith AR Indianapolis IN Guy E. Smith 10 Gloria Molitor, St. Charles IL SHOWMANSHIP WINNERS Aug 5, 2007-001 - San Antonio TX 1 Karma-dillo Chili, Naperville IL Aces Day After Cookoff, 31 CHILIS Candice Thomas ATTENTION: CASI PODS CHILI WINNERS 2 No Skill Chili, Chicago IL Help support our sponsors and also cut the cost of purchasing Mexene Chili Powder for 1 Mary Ellen Gillen, San Antonio TX Patrick Gustafson your members. Go to the CASI website and hit the “Special Offer” spinning symbol. You 2 Nadine Karnei, Weesatche TX 3 Black Bear Chili, Huntley IL automatically get $5.00 off the purchase of a 4 lb. can. What a deal! 3 Tricia Tenery, Kerrville TX Kathy Martin Have you used the CIS to input your cookoff? This is a quick and easy way to provide all the information needed. If you have any questions on this process, please contact Dorathy at [email protected].

Have you got some spare time on your hands while at TICC? There are several areas soliciting volunteers: front gate, veggie cutting, registration, concession sales, and beer sales – to name a few. Look for the October Terlingua Trails for a complete listing of those areas needing assistance. As always, your willingness to volunteer is very much appreciated. September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 15 Cooking With CASI

Sep 1, 2007-001 - Fort Wayne IN CASI. & Broadway, between Bank and the old right to host the 2nd Annual Texas Elk strongly encouraged. Entry fee $20, turn- Chilifest Cookoff. Two day event Fox Theatre. Entry fee chili $20 turn-in State Championship. Jackpot beans (dry in 2 PM. Benefits Hart Center, Hanover featuring chili, music and fun. Held in Noon, Junior chili $5, turn-in Noon. Salsa white beans from scratch only) $5, turn- Public Library. Make checks payable to Headwaters Park, 333 S Clinton St. $5, turn-in 11 AM, Home made pie $5, 9 in noon. RV parking available, no hook- Hanover Chili Cookoff. Contact Chip Benefits Fort Wayne Sister Cities & others to 10 judging to follow. Benefits Theta ups. Lots of shaded cooking area under Welsh, 717-309-8303. 420 W Broadway, Entry fee $25, turn-in Noon. Five Gallon Epsilon Philanthropic Sorority. Make the trees. Cooks party/meal Saturday night Red Lion PA 17356. minimum for public tasting. checks payable to Theta Epsilon. Contact (around 7:00 p.m.). For information www.chilifestfortwayne.com. Email Amy McDonald 410 W. Wilson Girard contact Ron Barnes [email protected] Sep 3, 2007-001 - Clifton VA CASI. [email protected]. Phone 260- KS 66743, 620-724-7110, 620-249-0413. Benefits Arlington Elk’s charities Junior Virginia State Chili Championship. 418-2170. Division, CHILI GRIND ONLY entry is Sponsored by the ODPOD and The Sep 1, 2007-006 - Canyon Lake TX free, turn-in 1 PM. Wednesday Night Crew. Held on Monday Sep 1, 2007-002 - Meridian TX CASI. CASI. 4th Annual BBQ & Chili Cookoff in conjunction with the Labor Day Car Texas Music Festival Cookoff. Bosque held at Canyon Lake Ice House across Sep 2, 2007-003 - Canyon Lake TX and Motorcycle Show. Located at the Bottoms Championship Cookoff street from Dairy Queen, in Startsville. CASI. Sunday Canyon Lake CCO. Held at Clifton Barn on Main Street near the Campgrounds W. Morgan St or FM 1473, No hookups, live music, live Calcutta. Canyon Lake Ice House across from railroad tracks. Cooks meeting 10 AM. northeast of Hwy 6 and the Bosque River. Cooks Dinner, BBQ Sandwich sold on Dairy Queen in Startsville. No hookups. Chili turn-in 2 PM. Entry fee chili $20. RV parking full hookups. Circle motel for Saturday. Cooks dinner Friday night. See cookoff previous day. Entry fee $18, Benefits INOVA Kids. Contact Richard non-campers with free shuttle. Entry fee Benefits Comal County Jr Livestock Assn. turn-in Noon. Contact Cindy McKinzie King 703-631-9198. Automatic qualifier $20, turn-in 2 PM. Benefits Cancer Entry fee $18. CHILI GRIND ONLY. 210-557-9467, or Roger Patteson 210- for TICC for the first through third place Research. Contact Christina Slagle 817- LSBS BBQ $65 for all. Turn-in chili 2 PM, 413-9916. CHILI GRIND ONLY. chili winners and first place showmanship 233-2869. 20 plus bands. Preregister via BBQ beans 11 AM, chicken Noon, pork [email protected]. Benefits CASI winner. email and receive a free CD. spare ribs 1 PM, brisket 3 PM. Make Scholarship Fund. christina@theunclebillroachband. com. checks payable to Reva Weatherly or Sep 3, 2007-002 - San Angelo TX CASI. Click LINK to see location: http:// Darlene Evans. Contact Billy Bob Sep 2, 2007-004 - Hanover PA CASI. Concho Valley Pod Great Pepper’s www.mapquest.com/maps/map. Weatherly BBQ 830-899-7150. Roger Pennsylvania State CCO Automatic Meeting Cookoff on Monday, September adp?formtype=address&cat=Bosque% Patteson chili 210-413-9916. Randy Evans Qualifier for TICC. Held in the ballfield 3, 2007 at the Paseo, 20 East Avenue D in 20Bottoms%20Championship%20cook% BBQ 830-899-7773, Cindy McKinzie chili behind Kclinger’s Tavern, on Poplar St. San Angelo, Texas. Chili: $20. Turn in at 2off%20Campgounds&address=%5b766% 210-557-9467. [email protected]. See in Hanover. This is a well- attended event, Noon. For more information, call Boomer 2d799%5d20W%20Morgan%city+ cookoff next day. with an open cook- off and salsa contest, Kingston at 325-655- 7161. Make all Meridian&state=TX&zipcode=766 and live entertainment. Pre-registration is checks payable to Concho Valley Chili 65&county=US Sep 2, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. 1st Annual Jerry’s Kids Cookoff The Sep 1, 2007-003 - Plains TX CASI. Paseo, 20 East Avenue D in San Angelo,Tx. Watermelon Festival Cookoff. Held in Jackpot Beans: $10. Turn in at 1pm. Chili: City Park. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 PM. $20. Turn in at 2pm. 42 Tournament that Make checks payable to Yoakum County evening and Pot Luck Supper. All proceeds Connection. Benefits Watermelon Festival. benefit the MDA Telethon. RV Spaces CHILI GRIND ONLY. Info Tereasa Bell, available for $10. per night. Contact 806-456-8345. Boomer Kingston 325-655-7161 dkings@aol .com. Make checks payable Sep 1, 2007-004 - Fritch TX CASI. 2nd to Concho Valley Chili Pod. Annual Fritch VFD CCO. Being held at Pete Iverson’s Place (AKA Harley Acres). Sep 2, 2007-002 - Arlington TX CASI. Desert Eagle and 1 mi East of Fritch on Hwy 136 South side 30th Annual Arlingua CCO Held at Elks of Hwy. If you reach the Creek Bar, you Lodge #2114, 601 W. Pioneer Parkway. Budweiser have gone too far. Entry fee $20, payable CASI Division entry $20, turn-in 2PM, to Fritch VFD. Turn-in 2 PM. Door GRIND ONLY. The 1st Annual Texas 2007 Sponsors prizes, live auction, silent auction etc. Elk State Championship. All qualified Elks Bike run etc. Contact David Finner 806- are eligible to articipate. Elk’s division is 886-3818 or 806- 857-9337 or Roodney also GRIND ONLY entry is free if CASI Terlingua Lilly 806-373- 9774. Dry camping and Participating in CASI, otherwise it is $15. Friday night move-in allowed. Top 10 Elks will receive Dr. Feelgood trophies and 1st place will be recognized Sep 1, 2007-005 - Pittsburg KS CASI. as the Texas Elk State Champion and Kansas State Open Championship. receive a beautiful traveling trophy. automatic qualifier for TICC. Held at 5th Additionally, the winning lodge earns the Page 16 Terlingua Trails September 2007 30th Annual Texas Open CCO was HOT, HOT, HOT!!!!

Boomer Kingston presenting 1st Place Chili Trophy to Ralph Hay Conroe suffered a heat wave on Saturday, August 11th, but that didn’t stop the cooks from coming out to enjoy the 30th Annual Texas Open Chili Cookoff. We had 166 cooks from Texas, Louisiana and Georgia endure the sweltering heat to compete for 1st Place Texas Open Show winner Donn Shands top honors on what was probably the hottest day we’ve had in this area all year. Even the public braved the heat as folks came from near and far to judge chili and/or participate in the car and bike show helping the Texas Open raise money for three great H. S. “Hut” Brown Middle School charities – The Texas Gulf Coast Trade Center, the Texas Honor Ride and the Montgomery County Women’s Center. Donna Conrad and Dianne Stimson’s hard The El Paso Independent School District held an open house on Thursday, work and dedication on making the car and bike show a success shined thru with the August 9, to allow the community to see El Paso’s newest school – H. S. “Hut” overwhelming turn-out for our first year. Great job ladies! And a big “Thank You” Brown Middle School. to our Charities for all their hard work in the insufferable heat which helped in the success of this cook-off. If you are in the El Paso area, drop by 7820 Helen of Troy and see the school The party started Friday night with a buffet consisting of smoked pork loins and hors named to honor our very own Hut Brown! d’oeuvres and later converged to Casino style games and a 42 tournament. Nigel Delgado kept us entertained with his music while The Original Pearl Cookers (Ed & Mayo Blair) hosted an Open Bar. Thanks to Janice and Linda with Bruce Foods for Chili Ambassadors smoking the pork loins for us, they were delicious!!!

Saturday featured a Junior Chili Competition with 25 entries. But there was a twist to the competition this year as the Juniors competed with spices mixed by TICC Champions and this year’s Texas Men State, Texas Ladies State and Mexico International Champions. Keith Karaff and Michael Mayorga custom designed the stoves for the top ten winners and provided handcrafted trophies for 11th thru 20th place. Kolby Karaff, 15, from Richmond, TX, took first place and became the 2007 Texas Open Junior Champion.

The day ended with a BBQ celebration and Open Bar in honor of Karin & Phil Barnes’s 25th Wedding Anniversary courtesy of The Original Pearl Cookers. Nigel again provided music for our entertainment while the wine flowed.

In the end Ralph Hay beats the heat and receives top honors as the 2007 Texas Open Champion with Cary Plocheck placing 2nd, Kenneth Swart from Georgia placing 3rd and Tejas Medicineman, Donn Shands, winning 1st Place Show.

Thanks again to all the organizers, sponsors, cooks, and everyone who volunteered and helped with all the things necessary for a successful CCO. We couldn’t have done it without you. Charity, chili and fun…let’s keep CASI going. Thanks! Roger Foltz, 2004 TICC winner and Dana Plocheck 2006 TICC winner, serving Dana Plochek chili, answering questions and entertaining the crowd at the Illinois State Cookoff September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 17 COLLEEN WALLACE Ski Cloudcroft CCO As most of you are aware my Mother passed away late last week. Her fight with Cancer was difficult We had a great turn out but she made the most of every possible moment for the 17th Annual during that 7.5 year period. She was an amazing Cloudcroft CCO held person and lived on her terms until the very end. at Ski Cloudcroft, near Having no pain, family at her side and she lived her Cloudcroft, NM. As life in such a way that she was free of regret. I always the tempera- wanted to thank you on her behalf and also myself tures are very pleasant for all the support over the years. at nearly 9000 feet el- This was her obituary that she wrote in advance. evation. The elevation Yes, she was selfless about everything. also contributed to a lot Michael Wallace of huffing and puffing by the flatlanders in at- Colleen Wallace passed away on July 27, 2007 of Ovarian Cancer. She was tendance. Saturday the born in Bradford PA the daughter of Norbert & Bernadine Healey Peckham, 2:00 P.M. turn in coin- deceased. She graduated from St. Bernard School, Slippery Rock University cided nicely with and the State University of New York-Buffalo with a degree in Physical Mother Nature turning Therapy. She was a commissioned officer in the USAF and was a long time on the spigot for a while employee of Presbyterian Hospital Dallas. She is survived by her husband, but even that couldn’t John Wallace of Plano, TX, sons Greg Wallace & wife Anna, Michael dampen the spirits of Wallace & wife Rachael, daughters Julie Wallace & Joan Wallace, those in attendance. grandchildren Cristina, Kate & Andrea Wallace, John Jay Vileta, Ryan Saturday we had 42 Rheudasil, Sydney & Addison Galante, & Torrey & Peyton Wallace, and cooks and Sunday for sisters Constance Peckham & Mary Harvey. She was preceded in death by the NMCS Pod CCO grandson, Andrew Vileta, brothers Norbert Peckham Jr. & Michael Allen L: Kathy Hulme, Hobbs, NM Sunday 1st place chili, we had 29 cooks. So all Peckham, & sister Patricia Peckham. As a competition chili cook with the R: Kim Dvorak, Reno, NV, Saturday 1st Place Chili in all a great cookoff. Chili Appreciation Society International, she was the 1995 International As always we New Champion. A memorial Mass was held at St. Patrick Church Dallas, TX on Mexicans appreciate all you Texicans attending and helping make our CCO a Aug. 11 at 1pm. Remembrances may be made to a charity of your choice. success. One very unusual thing I can report is that both days the 1st Place Chili was prepared by a first time cook. Saturday the winner was Kim Dvorak from Reno, NV, and Sundays winner was Kathy Hulme from Hobbs, NM. Considering "On June 6th, 2000, a bolt of lightning struck me and totally changed my life. the caliber of the cooks in attendance this was no small achievement. I was diagnosed with Stage IIIc ovarian cancer. I went from skipping through life with a great job, a busy family, and doing lots of extra meaningless things, Joe Price to the world of no job, no hair, and worse yet no eyelashes, and no independence. After a few months of reeling back and looking at the beautiful family I have and good medical care, I finally stood up and began to appreciate everything, and I mean everything. I drew my children and grandchildren Oregon Trail Days Winners closer to me as well as friends, I started to plant flowers, travel, delight in each day and to interact with other ovarian cancer survivors.

"I recurred 6 months after finishing my first round of treatments and had another round at that time. Two years ago my CA 125 started to rise again and MD Anderson put me on shots of Lupron every 3 months. It is experimental with ovarian cancer but is used for breast and prostate cancer. It is a hormone blocker. My CA 125 has dropped, but not to a normal range. So I guess you can call this a recurrence. My doctor is just trying to hold back actual chemo as long as possible.

"So, no, I am not in remission but receiving treatment for my "chronic" disease. I read all I can about new treatments and options. I laugh more, cry more, and don't listen to trivial gripes and complaints of others. It is good to be alive and looking forward to each day, no matter how many more of them I have, I will make the most of each of them. At first I prayed for one more Christmas, now I have had many of them. No one knows what is ahead of them, with or without ovarian cancer. You get the message, live each day and enjoy each minute!"

- Colleen Wallace Page 18 Terlingua Trails September 2007 From the Alcalde Pod. RV Spaces available for $10.00 per CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Jennifer night. Kersten 608-884- 3358, P.O. Box 142 Greetings to all Old 320 Members and WELCOME ABOARD Fort Atkinson WI 53538. to New Old 320 Site Holders! We had some sites released/ Sep 8, 2007-001 - Claremore OK CASI. [email protected]. turned back in lately for various reasons and have managed 28th Annual Blue Grass Mid-America to gain new site holders from our waiting list. Regional Cookoff Festival. Top 3 Sep 8, 2007-003 - Port Coquitlam BC Automatic Qualify. CASI & ICS. Held in CASI. Pacific Pod Cookoff. Held at 3422 Boy, am I still in shock!! This past weekend at The 30th Historic Claremore. Cash to top winners Lancaster St. Entry fee $25. Turn-in 2 Annual Texas Open Chili Cookoff, my number was called for for Terlingua trip. CASI chili & ICS PM. Benefits Heart & Stoke Fund. Contact First Place. I have won a few first places along the way in my turn-in 4 PM. Set up time 8 AM. Cooks Fred Roycroft [email protected]. 604- “quarter-of-a-century career” of cooking chili, but this was meeting 10:30 AM. Award ceremony 6 464-3472. my first major automatic qualifier to win. PM. Entry fee CASI $25 ICS $35. Goody bags for all Pre-registered cooks. Pre- Sep 8, 2007-004 - Bruceville-Eddy TX I guess everyone is gearing up for the Great Peppers Meeting, which is only a short time registration will be appreciated, so cook CASI. Bruceville Eddy Annual EMS CCO. away - but then, TICC is right on the heels of the Great Peppers Meeting. That means I have spots can be assigned. Send to Claremore Chili $18, turn-in 2 PM. Beans $10, turn- to get all my t’s crossed and my i’s dotted. Chamb er. C/0 Dell Davis, 419 W Will in Noon 50/50 payback. RV parking $10 Rogers, Claremore OK 74017. Info Dell per night. Silent Auction. Hand painted I need all Old 320 Members to help me get the information required to make everything run Davis 918-341-2818, Lorinda Crawford stove will be raffled on Sunday. Unique as smoothly as possible for everyone at TICC. If you are not going to be utilizing your site 918-271-2421. Benefits MS Society, trophy hand painted by local EMS lady. for cooking on Saturday and would not mind a cook who doesn’t have a site to use yours, Make A Wish, Womens Domestic Abuse Pot luck supper Saturday night, meat please let me know ASAP. I will be working on my Site Map and noting for TICC the sites Shelter. furnished. Next day cookoff for VFD. that will be available for a non-320 member’s use; if you have a specific cook who you want Mavis Nelson 254-486-2487, cell 254- to use your site, please let me know and that will not be a problem. Sep 8, 2007-002 - Edgerton WI CASI. 715-4075 [email protected]. I am still in the process of looking for a few “lost” (unable to locate) members and/or some Chilimania Wisconsin State Open Chili heirs. I would appreciate any information that anyone can give to me to locate the following Championship. Held in downtown at Sep 8, 2007-005 - Little Rock AR CASI. members/heirs: DECEASED - DeDee Bones, Rusk, Texas; David Sitchler, Del Rio, Texas. intersection of Canal and Henry Streets. West Little Rock Lions Club 36th and UNABLE TO LOCATE - Bob & Genevive Gelles, Houston, Texas. Entry fee $20 turn-in 1:30 PM. Benefits Fairpark UALR parking lot # 15, Little Edgerton Community Improvement. Rock, AR. 72205, across the street from Just as a reminder to ALL Pods that have an Old 320 site. Under the new procedures, the Make checks payable to Chilimania Inc. Lions Worlk Services. Benefiting Lions Great Pepper must notify me as to who will be cooking on that Pod’s site. Hand-carved trophies and gift bags. World Service For the Blind. 1:00pm turn

I plan on cleaning up the “old” site markers and replacing damaged and /or lost ones. I would Famous for our fresh appreciate some volunteers to help with the replacing of markers and the marking of the sites. Please let me know if you will be available to help. spices and personal service! I want to remind EVERYONE that after the sites have been marked, PLEASE do not drive any kind of vehicle, i.e., golf cart, 4-wheelers (anything with wheels) on or across the entire Old 320 Area until SATURDAY MORNING, November 3. I realize that we need to haul Providing spices to the cooking items and tarps to our sites for setting up, but please try to respect everyone’s site. 2006 TICC Champ, Dana Plocheck, I look forward to seeing everyone at the Great Pepper’s Meeting in Tyler. and five of the other top 10 winners PLEASE MAKE NOTE OF MY NEW E-MAIL ADDRESS LISTED BELOW.

Ralph Hay, Alcalde Mild Bill’s Spices, etc 713-475-1660 [email protected] “Gunpowder Foods” is now part of the Mild Bill’s family! Check out the entire product line on our new website

www.mildbills.com 830-980-4124

email: [email protected] The only thing “mild” about us is our name. September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 19

Make checks payable to Friends of Sep 15, 2007-011 - Rodanthe NC CASI. Crawford State Park. Contact Kevin S Chicamacomico Banks Chili Cookoff Smith, 22 E Lake Rd. Farlington KS Benefits the Chicamacomico Banks Water 66734. 620-687- 0164. For park Rescue Unit. Held at the Cape Hatteras playground equip- ment. KOA Campground, oceanfont off Hwy 12 in Rodanthe, NC. For camping Sep 15, 2007-007 - Port Lavaca TX reservations or cabin rental, call (800) CASI. Our Lady of the Gulf Festival 562- 5268. Be sure to tell them you’re Kickoff Cookoff, FM 3084 Port Lavaca. coming for the chili cookoff for discounted Benefits Knight of Columbus. Entry fee rates. Entry fee is $20 for CASI chili, $20 turn-in 3 PM. Contact Kenny Weaver make checks payable to Chicamacomico 361- 6552-6284, 361-572-2569. Email Banks Fire Department. Turn in is 1:00 [email protected]. pm, cooks party on Friday night. Meat is cook’s choice. For more information, Sep 15, 2007-008 - Little Rock AR CASI. contact Larry Grubbs, (252) 996-0201, VFW 9095 Ladies Auxilary 1121 Gamble [email protected] or Adrienne Grant Rd. Little Rock, AR. 72211. Turn in at (919) 604-5262, [email protected]. 1:00p.m. Entry fee $20.00. Checks Payable Please call or e-mail to let us know you’re to VFW 9095 Ladies Auxilary. No outside coming. See you at the beach! alcohol. Bar on site. Cookoff will be outdoors. For further info contact Ron Sep 15, 2007-012 - Bel Air MD CASI. Helton at VFW 9095 501-225-9849 or Last Blast of Summer Cookoff. Benefits Bruce Smith 501-312-8715. Benefits VFW Mason Dixon Pod. Entry fee $22, turn-in 9095 Ladies Auxilary. 2 PM. BBQ, Beer and other food will be in. Entry fee $20.00. BRING THROW Paso Cancer Society. Entry fee $15 turn- served in addition to DJ and door prizes all DOWN CHILI!!! They will be selling in 2 PM. Contact Eve Du Mond 915-345- Sep 15, 2007-009 - West Tawakoni TX day. Fun for the whole family Details tasting cups at the event starting at Noon. 4397, [email protected]. CASI. 13th Annual Chili By the Lake later. Contact Brian Smith 717-825-7422, All proceeds from the tasting cups go to Cookoff. Held at Tawakoni City Park, 9 email [email protected]. Lions World Services for the Blind. This Sep 15, 2007-004 - Paris TX CASI. 2nd miles east of Quinlan on Hwy 276. Benefits Meat is cooks choice. is our second year to have the cookoff Annual SBS Chili Cookoff Cancelled. Park Improve- ments. Entry fee $18 turn- and are expecting more spectators than in 1 PM. Jackpot Beans entry $5 turn in Sep 16, 2007-001 - West Tawakoni TX last year. And did I mention to BRING Sep 15, 2007-005 - Lake Zurich IL CASI. Noon, 50/50 1st place only. Limited CASI. Sunday Chili By The Lake Cookoff. THROW DOWN CHILI. For further 9th Annual Barn Burnin’ CCO. Held at electric hookups. Info Jackie Grose 5640 Held at Tawakoni City Park, 9 miles east information call Tammy Johnson @ 501- Lake Zurich Park, just north of Route 12 Hwy 34 South, Quinlan, TX 75474. 903- of Quinlan on Hwy 276. Entry fee $18, 920-6100 or 501-664- 7100 or call Bruce (Rand Rd) & Route 22. Advanced 883-4916. See cookoff next day. turn-in Noon. Info Jackie Grose 903- Smith @ 501- 312-8715 registration would be greatly appreciated. 883-4916. See cookoff previous day. Make checks payable to Village of Lake Sep 15, 2007-010 - Elkton VA CASI. 1st Sep 9, 2007-001 - Bruceville-Eddy TX Zurich. Contact Karen Meyers Lake Zurich Annual Elkton Chili Cookoff. Take I-81 Sep 21, 2007-001 - LaPorte TX CASI. CASI. Bruceville-Eddy VFD Annual CCO. Park & Recreation Dept 200 S Rand Exit 247A (33 East), follow 33 West into Falls Back Festival-Friday CCO Held Chili $18, turn-in 1 PM. Hand painted Road, Lake Zurich IL 60047. 847-438- Elkton and follow signs. Take 340 North downtown, 300 W Main. Entry fee $20, stove to be raffled off. Mavis Nelson 254- 5146 Ext 10. and Elkton exit and follow signs. Benefits turn-in 8 PM. Benefits Boys and Girls 486-2487 cell 254-715-4075, Elkton Downtown Revitalization Corp. Harbor. Contact Ed Blair 832-567-558 [email protected]. See cookoff previous Sep 15, 2007-006 - Farlington KS CASI. Make checks payable to Elkton 713-686-4520 day. Friends of Crawford State Park CCO. Downtown Revitalization Corp. Entry fee [email protected]. CHILI Held at #1 West Lake Road. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Info Seth McGuffin, GRIND ONLY. Sep 15, 2007-001 - Gonzales TX CASI. $20, turn-in Noon. CHILI GRIND ONLY. 540-298-5049. [email protected]. First Shot Cookoff. Held at J.B. Wells Pavillion. Entry fee $20, turn-in 2 PM. Make checks payable to First Shot CCO. Contact Sissy Mills 830-857-6247 Register by August 31st. CHILI GRIND ONLY. RV hookups at $17 per night.

Sep 15, 2007-002 - Crane TX CASI. Crane County Livestock Show CCO. Held in City Park Entry fee $18 turn in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Junior Division Chili. Contact Pat Timmons 432- 558-7319, Tricia Barker 432-208-0420.

Sep 15, 2007-003 - El Paso TX CASI. Annual Saturn Cookoff. Held at 7750 Gateway East, McRae Exit. Benefits El Page 20 Terlingua Trails September 2007

Sep 22, 2007-001 - Water Valley TX Benefits Hospice of North Central com. Gene Bond 405-530-7434, cell 405- 238, La Luz NM 88337. 505-443-3313, CASI. Almost Last Chance Cookoff. Held Oklahoma BBQ sanctioned by Professional 850-5248, [email protected]. [email protected] in Water Valley Park. See cookoff next BBQ KCBS rules. Ribs, Chicken, Brisket. [email protected]. day same location. Details to follow. Register by August 5th for $115 all Sep 28, 2007-001 - Wichita Falls TX Limited number hookups available $20/ categories, register by August 27th entry CASI. Friday Night FallsFest Cookoff. Sep 29, 2007-005 - Garland TX CASI. night. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Janice Miller fee is $140. Backyard is $50. Contact Held in Lucy Park of Seymour Hwy. See Garland Elks No Frills Last Chance1 Held [email protected] Melanie Wright, 1904 N. Union, Suite cookoff next day same location. Entry fee at Garland Elks Lodge #1984 3825 Duck 103, Ponca City OK 74601. 580-762- $20, turn-in 8 PM. Plenty of RV parking, Creek Dr. 972-278-5300 Entry fee $18, Sep 22, 2007-002 - Clemmons NC CASI. 9102. www.cherokeestripcookoff.com no hookups. Bring the family and join in turn-in 1 PM. Make checks payable to North Carolina Chili Championship Held the fun. Park will be open Friday with Garland Elks Lodge. Come on out and try at Forsyth County Tanglewood Park 4061 Sep 22, 2007-008 - LaPorte TX CASI. food, games, fireworks display and to get your last points and have some fun. Clemmons Rd located off Hwy 158 in Fall Back Festival CCO. Held in downtown, concert. Friday entertainment is Texas Hook ups available 1st come 1st serve for Clemmons. Benefits March of Dimes. 300 West Main. Entry fee $20 turn-in 5 Country Music artist Aaron Watson $10 daily. Pecan trees for shade and Entry fee $20, turn-in 1 PM. Make checks PM. For the LaPorte Historical Society. opening for Kevin Fowler. Saturday covered patio available. If you need payable to March of Dimes. Rubber Duck CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Ed Blair Bowling For Soup and Grand Funk something, let me know. Come see us! Regatta, local band concert. Info Connie 832-567-5558, 713-686-4520 Railroad will be performing. Benefits Coby Davis P.O. Box 450335 Garland Kale [email protected] 336-723- [email protected]. Miracle League, builds baseball fields for TX 75045 214-727-7445. Email 4386. handicapped children. Cooks entry fee [email protected]. Benefits Elks Sep 23, 2007-001 - Water Valley TX pays admission to the park. Vickie Children Charities. Sep 22, 2007-003 - Desoto KS CASI. CASI. Sunday Almost Last Chance CCO. Ostermann 940-574- 2118. Desoto Rotary Cookoff. Held at Held in Water Valley Park. Details to Sep 29, 2007-006 - Bakersfield TX CASI. Zimmerman’s Kill Creek Farm, on Kill follow. See cookoff previous day same Sep 29, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. Old Spanish Trail Vineyard Chili and BBQ Creek Road, North of K-10 Highway at location. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Janice Saddle Bronc Chili Cookoff. Held at 204 Cookoff. Held at the Old Spanish Trail the Kill Creek exit. Entry fee $20.00. Miller [email protected]. E. Ave L. Entry fee $20, make checks Vineyard 142 Old Spanish Trail Lane CASI Turn in at noon. Homestyle division payable to SACA Pod. Sammie Plant 325- approximately 35 miles east of Ft Stockton turn-in at 1 pm. Benefits Gift of Life Sep 23, 2007-002 - Fort Collins CO 655-2147 on I-10, 4 miles west of Bakersfield exit Foundation. For further information CASI. 17th Annual Sundance Chili #288 Ligon Rd, go east on northside contact: Darrel Zimmerman, 34055 W Cookoff Held at Fort Collins Senior Center Sep 29, 2007-002 - Old Town Spring TX feeder 2 miles to end of road, turn left into 86th Terrace Desoto KS 66018. 913- 1200 Raintree Drive. Festival with live CASI. Dave’s Pepper Palace Practically gate. Benefits CASA. Entry fee $20 CASI 585-3130. Make checks payable to Desoto bands, crafts and art booths and many Last Chance Cookoff. Held at Daves or Open Chili. BBQ $25 per category. Or Rotary. other activities. CASI Red, Green and Hot Pepper Palace located right outside North $50 for all BBQ. Turn in Chicken Noon, Wings competitions. Entry fee is $15 for Houston. Lots of shopping and tree lined Ribs 1 PM, Brisket 4 PM. Beans $10 turn- Sep 22, 2007-004 - Westfield IN CASI. red, green or wings. If cooking red entry streets. No RV parking available for event in 11 AM. Chili cooks and Head BBQ Indiana State Chili Cookoff. Held at fee for green or wings $5 each. Turn-in 2 this year. CHILI GRIND ONLY. CASI cooks receive 2 free gate passes. Make Westfield Town Hall, 130 Penn St. PM. Make checks payable to Colorado chili entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Contact checks paid to Vineyards of Texas. Automatic Qualifier for TICC. Benefits Chili Pod. Benefits Friends of the Senior Keith Karaff email [email protected]. See Contact Mark Schultz, Vineyard Manager, Humane Society of Hamilton Co. Entry Center. Send entry fees to Colorado Chili cookoff next day, same location. More P.O. Box 762 Ft. Stockton TX 79735 fee $20 turn- in Noon. CHILI GRIND Pod, c/o John Montgomery, 1670 details to follow. [email protected] 830-703- ONLY. Contact Brad Garland, 157 E Broadway, Suite 3000, Denver, CO 9500, 432-395-2203. See cookoff next Columbine Lane, Westfield IN 46074. 80202. For information contact Lyman Sep 29, 2007-003 - Berthoud CO CASI. day same location. 317-715-5976 home, 317- 407-2670 cell. Wilkinson at 970-669-1573 or e- mail 7th Annual Fall Festival CO. Held in Fickel [email protected] .com. Cooks [email protected] Park, 7th Street and Mountain Avenue, Sep 29, 2007-007 - Amarillo TX CASI. meeting 9 AM. Salsa entry $5, turn-in downtown Berthoud. Other events include 1st Annual Evyn Vaughn Memorial Chili Noon. Peoples choice chili (with beans) Sep 23, 2007-003 - Oklahoma City OK crafts fair, children’s play area, live bands & IBCA BBQ Cookoff, being held at $10, free if you enter CASI chili. Please CASI. Oklahoma Womens State Chili and beer garden. Chili competition for Western Cowpunchers, at Hwy 287 bring at least 3 gallons of chili for the Championship. Held at State Fair- grounds, CASI red and Green devision. Entry fees North. Exit FM Road 2176. Entry fee $25 public. Make checks payable to Humane gate 26 off N. May Ave. Entry fee $25, are $15 per entry or $20 if cooking red turn-in 2 PM. Benefits Evyn Vaughn Society for Hamilton Co. turn-in 1 PM. Benefits City Rescue and green. Turn in is at 1 pm. Make Memorial, a 14 month old victim of child Mission. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Make checks payable to Colorado Chili Pod, c/ abuse. Make check payable to Evyn Sep 22, 2007-005 - Rio Medina TX CASI. checks payable to Hooch Pod. Info Joe o John Montgomery, 1670 Broadway, Vaughn Memorial Fund. Contact Carmen 2nd Annual International Talk Like A Spears 405-275-1164, cell 405- 650-3354, Suite 3000, Denver, CO 80202. For Nichols, 12800 Aires, Amarillo TX 79108. Pirate Day Cookoff. Held at the Texas [email protected]. Gene Bond 405- information contact Janelle Goad [email protected] Spirits Saloon in beautiful uptown Rio 530-7434, cell 405-850- 5248, Berthoud Chamber of Commerce, (970) [email protected], 806-351- Medina, 6 mi north of Castroville on FM [email protected]. 532-4200 or Lyman Wilkinson at (970) 3244, 806-231-9245. Charlotte Nichols 471. Entry fee $17, turn-in 2 PM. Benefits 669-1573. 806-336-3807. BBQ Brisket $20, turn-in Equine Therapy Center. Special prize for Sep 23, 2007-004 - Oklahoma City OK 3:00 PM, Ribs $20 turn-in 1:00 PM, 1/2 best pirate themed entry. Contact Bob CASI. Oklahoma Mens State Chili Sep 29, 2007-004 - Columbus NM CASI. Chicken $20 turn-in 12:00 PM, All BBQ & Steinle 210-912-6146. Championship. Held at State Fair- grounds, Pancho Villa’s Last Chance CCO. Held at Bean entry $60. Any other BBQ, Jackpot, gate 26 off N. May ave. Benefits C.A.R.E. Pancho Villa State Park. entry $20. Best Tastin Burger Contest Sep 22, 2007-007 - Ponca City OK CASI. Entry fee $25, turn-in 1 PM. CHILI www.emnrd.state.nm.us/PRD/Pancho entry $20, 1st place winner gets half the 21st Cherokee Strip BBQ & CCO. Held at GRIND ONLY. Make checks payable to Villa.htm. Benefits Friends of the Pansho Burger entry fee, turn-in 1 PM. Dry Pinto Lake Ponca Pageant Area. Entry fee $30 Hooch Pod. Info Joe Spears 405-275- Villa State Park. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 Beans $20, turn-in 11 AM. Raffle, door turn-in Noon. Jr Division turn-in 11 AM. 1164, cell 405-650-3354, joespooky@aol. PM. Make check payable to New Mexico prizes, silent auction. Chili Society. Contact Joe Price P.O. Box September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 21 Page 22 Terlingua Trails September 2007 Sep 29, 2007-012 - Shanghai CH CASI. Road. Entry fee $20 turn-in Noon. CHILI Sep 29, 2007-008 - Wichita Falls TX North of Pryor on US Highway 69. Charity Bubba’s Shanghai Chili Cookoff 2nd GRIND ONLY. Sontact Steve Lopez 806- CASI. FallsFest Chili Cookoff. Held in Tulsa Chapter - Multiple Sclerosis Society annual event held at Bubba’s Texas-style 669-3349. [email protected]. For 2008 Lucy Park off Seymour Hwy. Benefits of Oklahoma. Information contact BBQ and Saloon in Shanghai, China. Live Great Peppers Meeting. Junior League, Parks and Recreation, Lorinda Crawford 918-271- 2421, David music by Lonestar Wind. Entry fee around Streams and Valleys and many other Brown 918-520-9935 or Sharon 918- USD$60 (500 rmb), raffle prizes, etc. Sep 30, 2007-006 - Dallas TX CASI. organizations. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 824-2288. Proceeds benefit Shanghai Sunrise State Fair of Texas Chili CCO. Held on PM. Junior chili entry $10, turn-in 1 PM. Foundation. For more info contact Ken parking lot by livestock barn at Fair Park, Jackpot Beans 100% payout $5, turn-in Oct 6, 2007-003 - Odessa TX CASI. Walker email enter Lagow Gate off Fitzhugh Ave. Noon. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Permian Basin Riding Club. Held at Becky [email protected] Benefits Creative Arts Dept. Entry fee Kevin Wooster 1906 Grant St, Wichita Sams Tropical Bar & Grill, 2518 N FM $15 turn-in 1 PM. Fire extinguis her Falls TX 76309 940-766-0794, Vicki 1936. Entry fee $20, turn-in 2 PM. Benefits Sep 30, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. required. Coleman-type pump- up stove, Ostermann 940- 574-2118. See web site the Permian Basin Riding Club. Contact Blaine’s Last Chance Cookoff Held at 10 no propane per city of Dallas fire code. FallsFest. org. Plenty RV parking no Janene Dixon 432-208-7663. W. Harris. Entry fee $20. Charity TBD. Meat must be brought to fair in cooled ice hookups. Bring family and join the fun. Make checks payable to SACA Pod. chests. No BBQ cookoff this year. Free Park opens Friday with food, games, Oct 6, 2007-004 - Ruidoso NM CASI. Contact Fred Lazarus. Fair entry to contestants. Contact Creative fireworks display and concert. Friday 26th Annual New Mexico State Open Arts Dept, State Fair of Texas, Box entertainment is Kevin Fowler and Chili Cookoff. Held at Little Creek RV Sep 30, 2007-002 - Old Town Spring TX 150009, Dallas TX 75315. 214-421-8744. Saturday is Grand Funk Railroad. Possible Park, Mile Marker 2, Hwy 220, Airport CASI. 2nd Annual Absolute Last Chance cookoff and 42 tournament on Friday. Road. call 505-336- 4044 or 866-563- CCO Come celebrate the end of another Sep 30, 2007-007 - Staples TX CASI. Cooks entry fee pays admission to park. 0333 for rsvns. great chili year. Held at Dave’s Pepper 24th Annual Purgatory Creek Pod CCO See next issue for more details. www.littlecreekrvpark.com. Charity Palace, located right outside North Held at FM 1977 at San Marcos River off TBD. Entry fee $20 turn- in 2 PM. Make Houston. No RV parking available. CHILI Hwy 80.. In case of flood, alternate site is Sep 29, 2007-009 - Coolemee NC CASI. checks payable to Ruidoso Chili Society. GRIND ONLY. Entry fee $20 turn-in 1 the Hays County Civic Center in San Coollemee Heritage Day CCO. Held at Contact Rick Thomas P.O. Box 16, Alto PM. More details to follow. Contact Keith Marcos. This event will be in compliance Zachary House 131 Church Street. Entry NM 88312 505-336-8399 cell 520-419- Karaff [email protected]. with the CASI 30 day advertising rule. fee $20 first entry $10 for additional 0202. Email [email protected]. Joe Price Entry fee $18, turn-in 1 PM. Charity entry. Turn in Noon. Make checks payable [email protected]. This is an automatic Sep 30, 2007-003 - Garland TX CASI. TBD. Info Larry Otto, 911 Bodark, Austin to Piedmont Pepper Pod. Info Mike Bubba qualifier for TICC. See Pod cookoff next Garland Elks No Frills Last Chance2 Held TX 78745. 512-444-6971 512-627-2581 Williams 485 Pleasant Acre, Mocksville day, same location. at Garland Elks Lodge #1984 3825 Duck cell. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Make checks NC 27028. 336-287-0189 Creek Dr. 972-278-5300 Entry fee $18.00, payable to PCP. Cooks feed Saturday [email protected]. More info Oct 6, 2007-005 - Ponder TX CASI. turn-in 12PM. Make checks payable to night, breakfast Sunday morning. Due to www.ncchili.com. Riding Unlimited Barn Bash CCO. Held at Garland Elks Lodge. Cook off on day liabilty concerns this is an adult only 9168 T.N. Skiles Rd. Entry fee $20, $15 before on Saturday - Come on out and try event. Sep 29, 2007-010 - Mineral Wells TX if paid before Sept. 15th. Benefits Riding to get your last points. This is it! Last CASI. Sons of the American Legion BBQ Unlimited Therapeutic Riding & Carriage chance! Hook ups available 1st come 1st Sep 30, 2007-008 - Meyersville TX CASI. & Chili Cookoff. Held at American Legion Driving Program. Turn- in 2 PM. Make serve for $10 daily. Pecan trees for shade 1st Annual Last Chance Best of The Best Post 75, 75 American Legion Dr. From checks payable to Riding Unlimited. & covered patio available. If you need CCO at Meyersville Country Club. Friday the intersection of Hwy 180 (Hubbard St) Includes A Jr and peoples choice division. something, let me know. Come see us! cooks party with all the trimmings. and Hwy 281 (Oak Ave) travel west on Cooks dinner Friday night. RV parking, Coby Davis P.O. Box 450335 Garland Saturday get ready for Terlingua Salsa 180 to west city park, turn right on no hookups. Contact Mary Gwinner, 9168 TX 75045. [email protected]. turn in Noon, Jackpot Beans turn in 1 PM, American Legion Dr. Entry fee $18, turn- T.N. Skiles Rd Ponder TX 76259 940- 214-727- 7445. Benefits Elks National and Buffalo Wings, deep fried only turn- in 2 PM. Jackpot Beans $10, 100% 479-2016 [email protected]. Foundation. in 2 PM. 40/60 payback on all entries, $10 payback, Pork Spare Ribs, Brisket, 1/2 CHILI GRIND ONLY. per category. Sunday Chili Cookoff turn- Jointed Chicken. $18 each category or all Sep 30, 2007-004 - Bakersfield TX CASI. in 1 PM, $13 entry fee. Benefits local three BBQ for $50. Jackpot Beans turn-in Oct 6, 2007-006 - Deland FL CASI. Sunday Old Spanish Trail Chili Cookoff charities. Don’t let high water or the lack 11 AM, Chicken Noon, Ribs 1 PM, all Florida State Open Chili Championship Held at Old Spanish Trail Vineyard, 142 of slow you down. We have a constant chili and Brisket at 2 PM. Benefit of the 6th Annual Great Bowls of Fire Chili Old Spanish Trail Lane, approximately 35 level, and an enticing large swimming Charities of the Sons of the American Cookoff. Top 3 chili and 1st place miles east of Ft Stockton on I-10, 4 miles pool, plus adjacent hot tub for a really Legion. showmanship automatically qualify for west of Bakersfield exit #288 Ligon Rd, good time. Large Oak tree and cool breeze TICC 2008. Held at Historic Volusia go east on northside feeder 2 miles to end for your camping convenience. Plenty Sep 29, 2007-011 - Corning NY CASI. County Fair Grounds & Agriculture of road turn left into gate. Charity TBD. RV parking no hookups. Don’t miss this Empire State Pod Cookoff to benefit the Center, 3100 E. New York Avenue, State Make checks payable to Vineyards of one. Contact Nadine Karnei 361-564- Health Ministry of the Southern Tier. Road 44 and Interstate 4. Benefits West Texas. Entry fee $20 turn-in Noon. 3148 361-564-7628, Dianna Hoy 361- Entry fee $15, turn-in 2:00 PM. Additional Volusia Historical Society. Contact Mark Schultz, Vineyard Manager, 277- 8687 or 361-648-6990. judging for freestyle chili and salsa. Visit www.greatbowlsofchilicook off.com. P.O. Box 762, Ft Stockton Tx 79735 the Corning Museum of Glass and the Turn in 2 PM. Entry fee $25. Please bring [email protected]. 830- Oct 6, 2007-001 - High Springs FL CASI. Rockwell Museum of Western Art. Make plenty of throw down chili for the public. 703-9500, 432-395-2203. O’Leno Ole Chili Cookoff. Cancelled. checks payable to the Empire State Pod. Tasting starts at 11 AM. Cooks party Contact Dave Grossman, 200 Wall Street, Friday night at the Elks Lodge. RV parking, Sep 30, 2007-005 - Amarillo TX CASI. Oct 6, 2007-002 - Pryor OK CASI. Catch Corning, NY 14830, 607-962-8593, or area motels close by. Contact Candace Amarillo Last Chance CCO. Held at The Fever Chili Cook Off Classic Auto email [email protected] Knight Arevalo [email protected] Western Cow Puncher, take Hwy 287 show & Tractor Pull. Entry fee $20, turn- 561-795-5888. North FM 2176 back South on frontage in 1 PM. Great New Location, 4 miles September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 23

John Caffey’s famous sausage gravy and Line, Grand Prairie 75053 home 972- Lone Star Weekend biscuits and cook on Sunday. see Sunday 513-0593, cell 972-740- 2224. for chili details. Thank you for your [email protected]. continued support. Contact John or Sue Caffey 512-446-2364 or Oct 6, 2007-016 - Port Aransas TX [email protected]. CASI. South Texas Music Fest & CCO. Held at Sharkey’s, 2600 S.H 361. Benefits Oct 6, 2007-014 - Garland TX CASI. Jody McCormick Scholarship Fund. Entry First Chance For Points CCO. Held at fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND Garland Elks #1984, 3825 Duck Creek ONLY. Contact Victoria Hart, 2600 S.H Dr. Entry fee $20 turn-in 1 PM. Jackpot 361 Port Aransas TX 78373 phone 361- Beans $5, turn-in Noon. Registration 749-4254 begins at 8 AM. RV sites available. Contact Wendy Rouse [email protected]. Oct 6, 2007-017 - Hilton Head SC CASI. 23rd Annual Kiwanis Chili CCO. Held at Oct 6, 2007-015 - Irving TX CASI. 2007 Honeyhorn intersection of Hwy 278 and Veterans Memorial Chili CCO Held at Cross Island Parkway. Benefits Kiwanis Irving VFW Post 2494, 3375 N. Belt Line, Childrens charities. No entry fee, turn-in behind the Stateland on Belt line, 2 1/2 12:30 PM. Contact Jim Gant miles north of I-30 or 1 block south of [email protected], 843-785-7602. Shady Grove, sorry about construction Please bring 4 gallons of throw down chili going on. Benefits Veterans of Foreign for the public. Jim Gant, 1 Junket, Hilton Wars Post 2494. Entry fee $20 chili, turn- Head SC 29928. Register by Sept. 17th. in 2 PM, CHILI GRIND ONLY. Jackpot see www.coastaldiscovery.org. CHILI Chuck Spishock wins for the second weekend in a row. beans $5 turn-in 1 PM. Make advanced GRIND ONLY.... Just ask him for the details. Way to go Chuck. checks to VFW 2494. Campers welcome no hookups. Friday dinner 6-8 PM. charge Oct 6, 2007-018 - St. Charles IL CASI. is usually $5-8, 7;30 Electronic Dart Great Pepper’s Chili Cookoff St. Charles Oct 6, 2007-007 - New Braunfels TX Pod. Cooks Dinner Friday and Saturday tournament, entry fee $3. Limited to first VFW Post 5036, 119 N Third Street (SW CASI. Fraternal Order of Canyon Men night. Goody bags to first 50 registered. 32 signed up. Registration and cooks Corner of Third & State Streets). Entry CCO at Mountain Breeze Campground Contact David Trice 903-668-3974. Live meeting 9 AM, $5 cooks pot, show 11 to fee $18, turn-in 1 PM. Also Jackpot River Road. Benefits Fraternal Order of Music. Kids activities. Benefits East Texas Noon. Horseshoe competition, quilt Beans, entry fee $5 with turn-in at 2:00 Canyon Men. Entry fee $18 turn-in 2 PM. Angel Network. auction, raffles, and much more fun. PM. Make checks payable to Chillini Pod. General info 830-964-5555 or Contact Margaret Hobbs. 3375 N. Belt Contact Bill Thomas, 31 South Colmbia canyonmen.org RV and Camping info Oct 6, 2007-011 - Dubuque IA CASI. 830-964-2484. Tri-States Largest Chili CCO. Held at 4th St and Bluff downtown CASI, salsa and Oct 6, 2007-008 - Geronimo TX CASI. open chili. Benefits Maria House. Turn-in Geronimo VFW Annual Cook Off Held at Noon. Entry fee TBD. Make checks State Hwy 123, 5 mi North of Seguin, 18 payable to Maria House. Info Teri Connely, mi South of San Marcos. Entry fee $20 63 Carter St. East Dubuque IL 61025. turn-in 2 PM. Benefits VFW Military Un- 815-747- 2504. Met Needs Program. Make checks paid to Geronimo VFW Post 8456. Info Bill Oct 6, 2007-012 - Bandera TX CASI. Owen 830-303-9903. Pioneer RV - An Alamo Area Pod Cookoff at Pioneer RV Resort. CHILI GRIND Oct 6, 2007-009 - Cleburne TX CASI. ONLY, turn it 2 PM, entry fee $20.00. Elks Lodge 811 Fall CCO. Held at Hwy 67 Cook-off to benefit Alamo Area Pod FM 1434. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Charities. Contact Pioneer RV, 1203 Maple CHILI GRIND ONLY CASI and Elks St. at Hwy 173, full hook-up reservations Division. Jackpot beans $5, turn-in Noon. 866-371-8751 or Jennifer Lee 210-722- Benefits Elks charities. Free RV space, 2227. See cook-off same location next first come first serve. Car show 10 to 4. day. [email protected]. Cooks party Friday night. Dessert cookoff entry $5. Saturday and Sunday breakfast Oct 6, 2007-013 - Austin TX CASI. lst 7 to 9 AM. Live band, cover charge. Points for Sight and State of Texas Pod Contact Jerry Brown 817-645-6117 Elks Lions Sight Cookoff at Travis County 817-645-9079. Sheriffs Posse Area South of Austin on Hwy 183 near FM 812. Please bring old Oct 6, 2007-010 - Hallsville TX CASI. eye glasses. Entry fee $18, turn in 2 PM, 10th Annual Hallsville Western Days CCO. GRIND ONLY. Beans $5 turn in 1 PM. Held in City Park downtown. Entry fee Silent Auction. Cooks Party Friday night, $20 turn-in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Continental Breakfast Saturday morning. Make checks payable to East Texas Chili Pot Luck Saturday night. Stay over for Page 24 Terlingua Trails September 2007

Street, Naperville, IL 60540. Phone 630- Geronimo VFW Post 8456. Contact Bill Oct 7, 2007-007 - Austin TX CASI. 2nd 1-10th and 1-3 Show; BBQ: 50-50 payback 778-7444 Hm 630-778-8752, Owen 830-303-9903. See cookoff Points for Sight and Sot Pod Cookoff, 1-3rd and 1-10th trophies. All proceeds to [email protected]. Benefits previous day. held at Travis COunty Sheriffs Posse — GIFTS OF HOPE. Make checks Chillini Pod Charities. Area, Hwy 183, near FM 812. Please payable to Gifts of Hope. For information Oct 7, 2007-004 - Cleburne TX CASI. bring old eyeglasses. Benefits State of contact: Patsy Childress; 432-520-4433 Oct 7, 2007-001 - Ruidoso NM CASI. Sunday Elks Lodge 811 Fall CCO. Held at Texas Pod Charities. Entry $18, turn in (home) 432-425-4473 (cell) e-mail Ruidoso Chili Society Pod CCO. Held at Hwy 67 FM 1434. Entry fee $18, turn-in Noon. GRIND ONLY. Sausage Gravy [email protected] Little Creek RV Park, Mile marker 2, Hwy 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Breakfast and Biscuits for breakfast. See cook off 220, Airport Road. 7-9 AM. See cookoff previous day. on Saturday. Come and spend the Oct 13, 2007-002 - Tomball TX CASI. www.littlecreekrvpark.com call 505-336- Contact Jerry Brown 817-645-6117 Elks weekend with us and get your lst and 2nd VFW Post 2427 Fall Festival CCO Held at 4044 or 866-563-0333 for reservations. 817-645-9079. points. We’ll leave the light on for you and VFW Post 2427, 14406 Alice Rd. Further Entry fee $18, turn-in Noon. GOUND will feed you. Indoor facilities and indoor information to follow. Entry fee $20, MEAT ONLY. Make checks payable to Oct 7, 2007-005 - Hallsville TX CASI. judging. Contact John or Sue Caffey 512- turn-in 2 PM. Make checks payable to Ruidoso Chili Society. Contact Rick East Texas Pod 5th Annual CCO. Held in 446-2364 or [email protected]. Make Piney Woods Pod. Benefits VFW Post Thomas, P.O. Box 16, Alto NM 88312. City Park downtown. Entry fee $20 turn- checks payable to ALSCC. 2427 charities. Earl Gorhum 903- 447- [email protected], 505- 336-8399, cell in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact 1060. [email protected]. 520-419-0202. Joe Price David Trice 903-668-3974. Oct 7, 2007-008 - Garland TX CASI. [email protected]. Sunday Garland Elks #1984 CCO. Held at Oct 13, 2007-003 - Whitney TX CASI. Oct 7, 2007-006 - Bandera TX CASI. 3825 Duck Creek Dr. Entry fee $20 turn- Whitney Thousand Trails Cook-Off is at Oct 7, 2007-002 - San Angelo TX CASI. Pioneer RV - An Alamo Area Pod Cookoff in 1 PM. Jackpot Beans $5 turn-in Noon. Thousand Trails Park 5 miles north of Breast Cancer Awareness CCO Cancelled. Pioneer RV Resort. Turn in 1 PM, CHILI Registrat ion begins at 8 AM. RV sites Whitney on Hwy 933.Bean Cook-off GRIND ONLY. Benefit Alamo Area Pod available. Contact Wendy Rouse $5.00- Turn in at 12:00 noon. Chili $20.00- Oct 7, 2007-003 - Geronimo TX CASI. Charities. For Hook-up reservations call [email protected]. Turn in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Geronimo VFW Chili Cook-Off at State Pioneer 866-371-3751, cook-off Free hookups and camping Friday and Hwy 123 5 mi North of Seguin, 18 mi information call Jennifer Lee 210 722- Oct 7, 2007-009 - Tulsa OK CASI. Tulsa Saturday night only. Pot Luck Friday South of San Marcos. Entry fee $20 turn- 2227. See cook-off previous day same State Fair CCO Benefits Rodeo Arts Night and Saturday Night. See cook-off in 2 PM. For VFW Military Assistance location. Council. Turn-in time is 2:30 and the cost Sunday. Make checks payable to Program. Make checks payable to is $20.00. Cookoff held on the LOWER Thousand Trails. Info Darrell Baxter 817- Level of the Expo Center in the Creative 980-0913, email [email protected]. Arts Area, 4609 E 21st St. Enter thru Gate Benefits Christmas For Children. 13E. LOWER level door will open at 8 AM to set up and cooks meeting at 10 AM. Oct 13, 2007-004 - Grapevine TX CASI. LOWER level door will close at 10 AM, so 3rd Annual Stop Drop & Roll Cookoff if your late you will have to enter the Held at 2501 Bass Pro Drive, located off EXPO Building through the Main Entrance, TX 121, across from Grapevine Mills at 4145 E. 21st St. Pre-registration would Mall. Benefits WPI Firefighters Fund. be nice for planning purposes. Entry fee Raised $49,000 last year. Entry fee $20 includes Fair admission. For more GRIND ONLY. Turn-in 2 PM. Make information contact Mike Hallenbeck at checks payable to WPIFF. Contact Robin 918-409-6383 [email protected] or Williams 200 Greenleaf St Ft Worth TX Penny Chronister at the Fair office at 918- 76107. 817-870-8006 355-2319. Go to Pod’s website at [email protected] 817- greencountrychili.net for more 229-9750 cell. information and maps. Oct 13, 2007-005 - Livingston TX CASI. Oct 13, 2007-001 - Midland TX CASI. Indian Springs Annual Cookoff. Entry fee 7th Annual Breast Cancer Awareness $20. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Turn-in 2 Chili and Bar-B-Que Cookoff, will be held PM. Jackpot Beans 50/50 split, entry fee this year at the American Legion Woods $10 turn- in 1 PM. Showmanship 1:30. Lynch Post 19, 501 Veterans Airpark Margaritas 50/50 split, entry fee $10. Road, Midland, TX Set-up beginning Noon Held at Indian Springs VFD, one block off Friday, October 12th. Plenty of room for hwy 190 between Livingston & Woodville. motor homes, trailers and pits. No hook- Kitchen open 8 AM for breakfast, also ups. Fish Fry Friday Evening at 6:30 PM. selling lunch. Live Auction Friday night 7 Raffle Items, Special Raffle and Silent PM. Pat Quinlan [email protected]. Auction Items and 50/50. Special room rate of $55 + tax at Plaza Inn, 4108 North Oct 13, 2007-006 - Marshall TX CASI. Big Spring St. 1-800-365-3222 is available FireAnt Festival Chili Cookoff. Held in for the cookoff. Saturday chedule: 9:30 downtown Marshall. Entry fee $20. Beans AM Cooks meeting; Noon Chicken turn- $5. Turn-in 2 PM. Held in conjunction in; 1 PM Rib turn- in; 2 PM chili turn-in; with the FireAnt Festival. Contact Phyllis 3 PM brisket turn-in. Entry fee $25 per Bryan 903-935-7868 email entry. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Chili trophies [email protected]. September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 25

Oct 13, 2007-007 - Homosassa FL CASI. Southeast Chili Cookoff. Held at Natures RV Resort on the waterfront. Entry fee $20, turn- in 2 PM. RV sites and Cabins available at special rates for Chili Cooks, call Frieda at 800- 301-7880 for reservation at the chili rate. Friday night cooks get together at the marina lounge. POD cookoff next day same location. Great places to eat on the water front such as The Margarita Bar & Grill, home of the 64 Oz margarita. Contact Candace Knight- Arevalo [email protected] 561-795- 5888.

Oct 13, 2007-008 - Love Valley NC CASI. Love Valley Chili Cookoff. Held at Love Valley Arena. For the Love Valley Mule Association. Entry fee $20 first entry $10 for additional entry. Turn-in 1 PM. Makec checks payable to Piedmont Pepper Pod. Contact Brent Lundy 453 Jane Sowers Rd, Statesville NC 28625, 704-876-2681 or Linda Jolly 704-876- 1508. Email chili@ lovevalley.com. For more info www.lovevalley.com, www.ncchili. com.

Oct 13, 2007-009 - Bandera TX CASI. San Antonio Pod Fall Cookoff Held at Pioneer River Resort RV Park, 1203 Maple St, in town, on the river. Benefits SAP- CASI Pod charities. Turn-in Beans 12 Noon, Chili 2 PM. Entry Beans $10, chili $20, $35 for both days, paid Sat. Reservations 830-796-3751 or 1-866- 371-3751, $22.50 per night. Friday night cooks party. Contact Bob Steinle 210- 912-6146 for additional info. See cookoff next day.

Oct 13, 2007-010 - San Marcos TX CASI. Hays County Fair & Hill Country Chili/BBQ Cookoff 2007. Held at Hays County Civic Center, IH-35 South-East side. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Benefits scholarships, etc. Make checks payable to LULAC. #4876. Contact Richard Anzaldva 512- 353- 0306 or cell 512-757-0850. [email protected]. BBQ by Lone Star BBQ Society. Brisket, pork spare ribs, chicken $25 each or $65 for all three, other catagories fajitas, fruit cobbler, beans. For more info about rules/turn-in 51 & 69. Entry fee $20. Contact Paula Oct 13, 2007-013 - Lexington TN CASI. times etc, contact Joe Adams 512-392- Templeton 918-485-4010. in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. RV 2007 Beech Lake Bikefest & Chili Cookoff. 4856. Bull Riding and dance Saturday parking, no hookups. Friday night cooks Hwy 412 West in Lexington on the shores night. Oct 13, 2007-012 - Shreveport LA CASI. party 7 PM, food and music. Contact of Beech Lake - follow signs. Entry fee Caddo Sheriffs Marine Unit and American Legion Office 318- 635-8186, Jim Howard $20, benefits Carl Perkins Child Abuse Oct 13, 2007-011 - Wagoner OK CASI. Legion Post 14 CCO. Held at 5315 S 318-378- 4332, Richard Corbett 318- Center of Henderson County. Turn-in Ft Gibson Cookoff Held at Ft Gibson Lakeshore Dr. For American Legion and 455- 5761, Donna Jackson 318-681-1123. 12:30 PM. Make checks payable to Carl Lake Association 300 S Dewey, Jct Hwys Sheriffs Marine Unit. Entry fee $20 turn- Perkins Center. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Page 26 Terlingua Trails September 2007

Motor cycle show, bike games, dice run, 795- 5888, [email protected]. See Oct 13, 2007-018 - San Angelo TX CASI. DuMond [email protected]. live auction, raffle. Food and vendors. http://www.naturesresortfla.com Artober Fest Chili & BBQ CCO. Held on Phone 915-345-4397. Music 12:30 til 8 PM. (2) free admission Historic Block One on Concho St. Lots of to BikeFest for each cook. Contact Preston Oct 14, 2007-004 - Bandera TX CASI. public as this is a very large thing for San Oct 20, 2007-004 - Bryan TX CASI. Shaw 731-847-7208. Event phone Eddie San Antonio Pod Day After CCO. Held at Angelo and lots of publicity for our Chili Brazos Valley Elks Lodge 859 CCO Held Hester 731-431-4461. Pioneer River Resort RV Park. Benefits world. Cooks can set up right on the at 304 Mobile Ave. Just behind Triangle SAP-CASI Pod charities. Turn-in 1 PM. sidewalks so bring any throw down chili Bowling, and Old College Road. Benefits Oct 13, 2007-014 - Wichita Falls TX Entry fee $20, $35 for both days, paid you may have. Chili entry $20, BBQ $50 community projects. Chili Entry fee $20 CASI. Hospice Benefit Cookoff. Held at Saturday. Reservations 830-796- 3751, each meat or all 3 for $100. Contact Ground Meat Only. Beans & Salsa $10. American Legion Post 169 4605 Lakeshore 1-866-371-3751, $22.50 per night. See Sammie Plant 325-656-8299 or Susan Domino, horseshoe and washers Dr. Benefits the Hospice of Wichita Falls 325-486-9696. Email cookoff previous day. and other legion charities. Entry fee $20 tournament. Dance at 8 PM. Electric [email protected] for more info. available, please call to sign up limited turn-in 2 PM. Beans entry $5 turn-in Oct 14, 2007-005 - Lemont IL CASI. The space, they fill up quickly. Goody bags Noon. RV parking, no hookups. Can Best Of The Midwest CC. Held in Lemont Oct 13, 2007-019 - Nowhere AZ CASI. for first 35 cookers, and top notch one of cook inside if bad weather. Friday night Centenial Park for accessible playground Burro Saloon Cookoff. On Rt 89. Cooks a kind trophies this year. Contact Roger hamburger meal for cooks. Contact Don equipment. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 PM. meeting at 9 AM Peoples choice starting Schoppe 979-220-5611 to register early. Barfield, 15643 W FM 171, Wichita Falls Make checks payable to Lemont Park at 11 AM. Red Chili Turn-in Noon. Wing See cookoff next day. Yal come and TX 76305-2217. 940-322-5057 District. Contact Mike Struck 16028 127 turn-in 1 PM. Benefits the Southern Gig’em, Ags. Lodge phone 979-846-2096. [email protected] CHILI GRIND Yavapai Fire Department. Entry fee $12, St., Lemont IL 60439. Mike- ONLY struck@lemontparkdistrict. org. 630-257- payable to YCS. Contact Mary Ellen Smith Oct 20, 2007-005 - Blytheville AR CASI. 623-435- 0291, [email protected]. 6787. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Oct 13, 2007-015 - Ottawa IL CASI. United Way Chili Cookoff. Held on Main St. Entry fee $30 turn-in 1 PM. Benefits Battle of The Bowls Held at the Jordan Oct 14, 2007-006 - Victoria TX CASI. Oct 13, 2007-020 - Amarillo TX CASI. United Way of Greater Blytheville. Contact Block, an empty lot between Main St and Day After 1st Annual Octoberfest Day Elks Lodge Chili & BBQ CCO. Held at Mary Helen Moody, United way of Greater Lincoln Pl, at the North approach to the After 1st Annual Octoberfest Cookoff at Elks Lodge, 923 Clyde St. Entry fee Chili Blytheville, P.O.Box 866 72316. Illinois River Bridge in downtown Ottawa, Colet Inn. Held at 3023 Camp Colet Road $20, Chicken $25, Ribs $25, Brisket $25. [email protected]. across the street from the Courthouse All BBQ $70. Turn-in Chicken 1 PM, Chili on Colet Inn Bar & Grill grounds. The where other cookoffs were held in the Colet Creek Bridge is closed. Must come 2 PM, Ribs 3 PM, Brisket 4 PM. Benefits Oct 20, 2007-006 - Culpeper VA CASI. past. Charity TBD. Entry $10 turn-in through Schroeder TX to reach cookoff Red Ribbon Week Efforts. Jr. Chili CCO 6th Annual Casinova Pod Old House 12:30 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY Contact site. For map visit www.coletinn.com - Friday night 8 PM. Cooks must be 6-17 Vineyards Cookoff. Benefits the Museum Gene Enke 815-434-4144. limited electricity available at campsites. years of age and there will be a $5 entry of Culpeper History. Entry fee $22, turn- Benefits local charities. Chili entry fee fee. Friday there will also be a Cooks in 2 PM. Make check payable to Casinova Oct 13, 2007-016 - Lee’s Summit MO $18.00 turn in 1:00 PM. Jackpot dip-off party. RV parking, no hookups. Contact Pod. Contact Dick DeiTos, 3230 Atlanta CASI. Kick it Up! Chilifest Held at City entry fee $10.00 turn in 12 Noon. For Dennis Paetzold 806-676-5008. St. Fairfax VA 22030, 703-273-5075 Hall Plaza (3rd & Main). Turn in time for cookoff information contact Dianna Hoy [email protected] CASI is Noon and entry fee is $20.00. Oct 14, 2007-001 - Tomball TX CASI. 361-277-8687 or Bubba Reinke 512-357- Also salsa at 11:00, Homestyle and 6227. Make checks payable to VASA 8th Annual Piney Woods Pod CCO Held Oct 20, 2007-007 - Cameron TX CASI. Vegetarian chili at 1pm. 2 to 3 categories at VFW Post 2427, 14406 Alice Rd. Pod. is $35.00 and salsa is $5.00. Benefits Next Day Cookoff. Held at VFW Post Further information to follow. Entry fee #2010 1129 North Hwy 36. Benefits Open Arms Foundation & the Langford Oct 19, 2007-001 - Cameron TX CASI. $20, turn-in 1 PM. Make checks payable Overseas Service Members. Bean turn-in House. Cooks to bring own cleaning VFW Post #2010 Cookoff 1129 North to Piney Woods Pod. Benefits Piney Noon. Chili turn-in 2 PM. Silent auction, stations. For more information contact: Hwy 36. Turn-in 8 PM Charity TBD. Woods Pod Charities. Earl Gorhum 936- live music with Johnny Bush and band Scott Devouton @ 816-272- 5565, Contact Randy Duke 254-405-4333, 447-1060, [email protected]. Saturday night. Contact Randy Duke 254- [email protected]. Make checks [email protected] Angie Duke 254- 405-4333, [email protected] Angie payable to Chilifest C/O LS Sunrise 405-4334 email [email protected]. Oct 14, 2007-002 - Whitney TX CASI. Duke 254-405-4334 or email Rotary. See cookoff next day. Thousand Trails Whitney Pod Held at [email protected]. Thousand Trails Park 5 miles north of Oct 13, 2007-017 - Victoria TX CASI. Oct 20, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. Whitney on Hwy 933. CHILI GRIND Oct 20, 2007-008 - Wabash IN CASI. 1st Annual Octoberfest at Colet Inn Held Fall Festival CCO. Held in Water Valley ONLY. Chili turn in 12:00 noon. Pot luck Wabash Cannonball Cookoff. Held in at 3023 Camp Colet Road on Colet Inn Bar Park. Entry fee $18, benefits POD Saturday night. See cook-off Saturday . Paradise Spring Historical Park, treaty & Grill grounds. The Colet Creek Bridge Christmas Charities, Turn in 2 PM. CHILI Free Hook-ups and Camping Friday and location between the Miami & is closed. Must come through Schroeder GRIND ONLY. Jackpot Pinto Beans $5.00 Saturday night only. Contact Darrell Baxter Potowatomee Indians and US for northern TX to reach cookoff site. For map visit Turn in 1 PM. Janice Miller 325 947 8753 917-980-0913 or [email protected]. Indiana and southern Michigan. Entry fee www.coletinn.com. Benefits Local Make checks payable to Thousand Trails [email protected] Charities. Limited electricity available at $25, turn-in Noon. Benefits The Access, Pod. Benefits Great Peppers Meeting a safe location downtown for kids, camp sites. Chili Entry fee $18.00. Turn Oct 20, 2007-002 - Odessa TX CASI. Fund. provides tutors. Hope Foundation, The in 2:00 PM. Jackpot Beans $10.00 turn in Permian Basin Riding Club Cancelled, Lighthouse Mission, WAMA, Crime 12 Noon. Colet Inn Bar & Grill will be Oct 14, 2007-003 - Homosassa FL CASI. date changed to Oct 6th open all weekend for your entertainment, Stoppers, Honeywell Center Education Sunshine State Chili Pod Cookoff. Sunday Outreach. Kids, music, maybe food and beverage enjoyment. Make Oct 20, 2007-003 - El Paso TX CASI. 4th at Natures RV Campground & Resort, Indianapolis Colt cheerlead ers. See checks payable to VASA Pod. For cookoff Annual Optimist CCO. Details to follow. 10359 W Halls River Road. Homosassa, www.chiliforcharity.com for details. information contact Dianna Hoy 361- FL 34448. Entry fee $15, turn-in 1 PM. Entry fee $15 turn-in 2 PM. Contact Eve 277-8687 or Bubba Reinke 512-357-6227. Contact Candace Knight-Arevalo 561- September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 27

Houston Avenue. Benefits Humble Noon Lions Club Foundation. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Beans 50/50 Cookoff entry fee $10 turn- in Noon. Includes Craft vendors, entertainment and Car Show. Info Tony Austin tony@theaustinfamily. com. 281-812-4041.

Oct 20, 2007-013 - Acampo CA CASI. Woodbridge California State CCO. Held at Woodbridge Winery, 5950 E Woodbridge Rd. Highway 99 to Woodbridge Rd exit, then 1/2 mile east. Entry fee $25 turn-in 1 PM. Make advance check payable to Woodbridge Winery. Car show and vendors. Contact Larry Pilmaier 209-365-8139. 5950 E Woodbridge Rd, Acampo CA 95220. Email Larry at [email protected]. This cookoff is an automatic qualifier for TICC.

Oct 20, 2007-014 - North Little Rock AR CASI. North Little Rock Elk’s CCO. Held at Elk’s Park Hillard Rd. Entry fee $20, turn-in 1 PM. Make checks payable to ASS-CASI. Info Preston Nickle 617 W M St. North Little Rock, AR 72116. Benefits Elk’s charities.

Oct 20, 2007-015 - Kerens TX CASI. Cotton Harvest Festival 2007 Kerens Cotton Harvest Festival. This is our third annual festival to raise funds for the Kerens Library. There will be booths for arts and crafts and lots of different foods to test. Meanwhile, you can test your skills at horseshoes, target shooting, hoops shooting. Tour the homemade quilt show and watch the kids do all those bouncie activities. There will be plenty of entertainment during the day and the festival will be topped off with a Saturday Night street-dance featuring Ira Bradford. Special handmade gifts for the cook-off entrants. You can drive whatever vehicle you have right up to your spot. We sure hope you can make it!! We’re counting on CASI folks again to make this the BIG DEAL to attend. Entry fee $20, turn-in 2 PM. Contact Bruce Franklin 106 SE 2nd Oct 20, 2007-009 - Columbia TN CASI. Maury Coounty. Entry fee $25, turn-in GRIND ONLY. Contact Betty Horbett St, Kerens TX 75144. 903- 654-2274 Tennessee Women’s State CCO. Noon. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact 903-592-6508 903-595-2575 [email protected] Automatic qualifier for TICC. Held at Elm Kay Craft 931-374-0123 Preston Shaw [email protected] Beans entry $5, Springs Plantation. Benefits Hope House 731-847-7208. turn-in Noon. public $2 have chili for Oct 20, 2007-016 - Boerne TX CASI. Fund. Entry fee $25, turn-in Noon. CHILI tasting. Trophies for chili, beans, Pre-Holiday Craft Show & Chili Cookoff. GRIND ONLY. Contact Kay Craft 931- Oct 20, 2007-011 - Tyler TX CASI. Tyler showmanship, peoples choice Raffle Held at 7 Hwy 46 E. For KCFA Queens 374-0123 or Preston Shaw 731-847- 7208. Elks Lodge Cookoff. Held at 3815 Hwy drawings. Scholarship Fund. Make checks to 64 W, second driveway from Loop 323. Kendall County Fair Assn. Entry fee $18 Oct 20, 2007-010 - Columbia TN CASI. Next to Sonic, across from Super Wal- Oct 20, 2007-012 - Humble TX CASI. turn-in 2 PM. Please bring giveaway chili. Tennessee Men’s State CCO. Automatic Mart. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Make 6th Annual Humble Lions Club Chilifest & See cookoff next day. Friday night cooks qualifier for TICC. Held at Elm Springs checks payable to Tyler Elks, for veterans, Car Show. Held at Humble Civic Center, party. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Plantation. Benefits Junior Auxillary of scholarships, Elks charities. CHILI corner of Will Clayton Drive and South Lyndon Moore, 352 Bentwood Boerne Page 28 Terlingua Trails September 2007 September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 29 Lone Star Beer and Permian Distributing Proud Sponsors of the CASI Terlingua International Chili Championship

Oct 21, 2007-003 - Hydes MD CASI. 3rd [email protected] 210- 823- this annual tradition. Held in Holiday Travel TX 78006. 830-249-7885 Annual Boordy Vineyards CCO. Held at 9193. Park, Hwy 90. Entry fee $18, turn-in 7 [email protected] 210- 823- 12820 Long Green Pike. PM. Make checks to Pod on the 9193. www.boordy.com. Entry fee $20 turn-in Oct 25, 2007-001 - Del Rio TX CASI. 1st Pedernales. Contact Barbara Taylor 830- 2 PM. Meat is cooks choice. Come join us Annual Lorina’s Cantina CCO. Held at 868- 2223. [email protected] CHILI Oct 20, 2007-017 - Lenexa KS CASI. Sunday October 21st for Boordys Annual Lorina’s Cantina 9087 Hwy 90 West, GRIND ONLY. Cooks party: deli sand Williams Chili Challenge Mid West Regional Autumn Wine Festival. Music by Irish Lake Amistad. Charity TBD. Entry fee wiches, make em’ while you’re cooking. Open Championship, 13420 Oak St., Old band Donegal Xpress, wine tasting, $18 turn-in 7 PM. Cook overlooking Lake Holiday Trav-L-Park is 8 miles west of Town Lenexa, Sante Fe Trail Drive and gourmet food and cheeses, local crafters Amistad, ample parking, no hookups. the Y on Hwy 90. Reservations for park Pflumm Rd. For Juvenile Disbetes and much more! Gates open 1 PM, $10 Great Cooks party. Contact Lorina or 800-545-2364 Research Founda- tion. Entry fee $25, for adults, $5 for children 2 - 12. Children Jerry Harris 830-775-8017 cell 830-703- turn-in Noon. Make checks payable to under 2, free. Chili cooks and judges free. 6315/703-6613. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Oct 27, 2007-001 - Bryan TX CASI. Williams Chili Challenger. Contact Jim Bring extra chili for anticipated crowd. Brazos Valley Elks 859 Cancelled. Finlen,13420 Oak St., Lenexa KS 66215. Peoples choice award for chili team that Oct 26, 2007-001 - Odessa TX CASI. 913-541-8592. raises the most money for charity that 16th Annual Guess Where Caravan to Oct 27, 2007-002 - Crane TX CASI. day. For National Ovarian Cancer Coalition Terlingua. Held at Becky Sams Tropical Crane Chamber of Commerce CCO. Entry Oct 21, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. of Dallas, Ft. Worth. Contact Jen Windsor Bar & Grill, 2458 FM 1936. Entry fee fee $18, turn-in Noon. Details to follow. Autumn Winds CCO Held in Water Valley [email protected] 443-878-7999. $18, turn-in 4 PM. Benefits Terlingua CHILI GRINd ONLY. 432-631-2616. Park. Entry fee $18.00. Benefits KLST Memorial Board. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Friendship Tree. Turn-in Noon. CHILI Oct 21, 2007-004 - Boerne TX CASI. Contact Dodie Simpson 432-550-5760 Oct 27, 2007-003 - Santa Teresa NM GRIND ONLY. Contact Janice Miller, Sunday Pre-Holiday Craft Show & Chili Bruce Stewart 817-282-6678 or Kevin CASI. 5th Annual War Eagles Air Museum 325 947-8753. See cookoff previous day. Cookoff. Held at 7 Hwy 7 46East. For Wooster 940-766-0794. Cookoff. War Eagles Air Museum located garjans@suddenlink .net. KCFA Jr Livestock Fund. Entry fee $18 at the end of Artcraft Rd Entry fee $18 turn-in Noon. Make check payable to Oct 26, 2007-002 - Del Rio TX CASI. turn-in 2 PM. Make check payable to Oct 21, 2007-002 - Bryan TX CASI. 2nd Kendall County Fair Assn. Please bring Bonnie & Cliff Everett Memorial CCO New Mexico Chili Society. Benefits War Brazos Valley Elks Lodge 859 Cookoff. giveaway chili. See cookoff previous day. 15th annual cookoff. Celebrate Friday Eagles Air Museum Restoration Fund. Held at 304 Mobile Ave. Entry fee $20, CHILI GRIND ONLY. Friday night cooks night in Del Rio and get some points on Contact Joe Price 505-442-3313 or email ground meat only, turn-in Noon. Bloody party. Contact Lyndon Moore 352 your way to TICC. For park reservations, [email protected]. Bud Barrick Mary contest. Info Roger Schoppe 979- Bentwood, Boerne TX 78006. 830-249- call Jimmy McIntyre at 830-734-0571. [email protected] 505-382-5107 220-5611. See cookoff previous day. 7885. Email Don’t miss this opportunity to share in Lodge phone 979-846-2096. Page 30 Terlingua Trails September 2007 Oct 27, 2007-004 - Flatonia TX CASI. On site hookups, water & electric at no 4075 cell, email [email protected]. cook. Friday is National Scholar Flatonia Czhillispiel Czhili CCO 35 Held cost. We were treated like honored guests Michael Morris promotion coordinator ship Day competition Beans, Salsa off IH 10 between Houston & San Antonio last year and look for a great turnout this 254-773-5252 See cookoff next day. in downtown parking lot. Benefits Flatonia year. Contact Ben Berry 520- 378-3692, Hot Wings open to the public. Public may dry camp all week for $25 entry Chamber of Commerce, Flatonia Fire High Desert Pod. Oct 27, 2007-008 - Kaufman TX CASI. Dept, various school organizations and 16th Annual American Legion Post #165 fee per person. Contact Alan Dean scholarships. Entry fee $20, turn-in CASI Oct 27, 2007-006 - Lombard IL CASI. Chili Cookoff, at 100 S. Shannon St. [email protected] phone 830- Czhili 2 PM, Hometown Czhili 1 PM. Texan BBQ Chili Cookoff Held at 105 W. Entry fee $15, turn-in 2 PM. Beans $5, 868-4313. Showmanship 11 to 1 PM. Flatonia St. Charles. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 PM. turn-in Noon. Shomanship 1 PM. Vendors Czhilispiel 35 Oct.26,27,28 Czhili & BBQ. Make checks payable to Wes Carlson. welcome. Contact Wayne Thomas 972- Nov 10, 2007-001 - Edna TX CASI. Entertainment is Brandon Ryder, Todd Contact Wes Carlson 6613 Buckhorn 932-6083 wrt7175@embraqmail. com. Texana Chili Spill. At Brackenridge Park Fritsch, Roger Creager, Broke 60 Band, Loves Park IL 61111. 815-885-3470 Benefits Veterans projects. & Campground 891 Brackenridge Grateful Geazers, Carnival Arts & Crafts. [email protected]. Tent Parkway. Entry fee $20, turn-in 3 PM. Contact Flatonia Chamber of Commerce, provided. Benefits TLC Camp. Oct 27, 2007-009 - Russellville AR CASI. Contact Karen Gregory P.O. Box 429 P.O. Box 610 Flatonia TX 78941. 361- Main Street Russellville-Fall Festival. Held Edna TX 77957, 361-782-5229, 361- 865-3920. Special registration by Oct Oct 27, 2007-007 - Temple TX CASI. on Main Street Downtown Russellville. 781- 2129 cell. [email protected]. 15th, after that it will be $25. Temple Cookoff. Held in downtown Entry fee $25, turn-in Noon. Make checks Temple at the Visitors Center next to City paid to Main Street Russellville. CHILI Nov 10, 2007-002 - Henderson TX CASI. Oct 27, 2007-005 - Sierra Vista AZ CASI. Hall. RV’s welcome, limited elec, first GRIND ONLY. Contact Betsy McGuire, Heritage Syrup Festival CCO. Held 2nd Annual Sierra Vista Elks CCO. Held at come first served. Benefits the Charity P.O. Box 694 Russellville AR 22811. 479- downtown at Rusk Co. Annex parking 1 Elks Lane. Benefits Elks new building Act, chili abuse of Central Texas. Car 967-1437. lot, intersection Fordall & West Main. fund. Covered ramada and tables and show along with other activities. Beans Entry fee $20 turn- in 1 PM. Jackpot chairs are provided. Entry fee $15. Cooks $10 turn-in Noon, 50/50. Chili $18 turn- Oct 27, 2007-010 - Cassville MO CASI. beans $5, 50/50 payback, turn-in Noon. dinner Friday night provided by Lodge. in 2 PM. Contact Mavis Nelson 254-715- Cassville Fall Festival & Chili CCO Held in Benefits Rusk CO Citizens Emergency Town Square. Benefits local charities. Response Team. Peoples Choice also. Entry fee $20 turn-in Noon. Salsa $20. Trophies for top 10 chilies, 3 show, and Make checks payable to Cassville one for peoples choice. Contact Sherry Chamber of Commerce. CHILI GRIND Adams 903-657-7579. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Dixie Johnson 601 ONLY. Truman Ave, Lamar MO 64759. 417- 682-5432. [email protected]. Salsa must Nov 10, 2007-003 - Gladewater TX CASI. be prepared on site. 104.1 FM The Ranch Veteran’s Day held at the Gladewater Round Up Rodeo Oct 28, 2007-001 - Bryan TX CASI. grounds, 2502 W. Upshur Ave., which is Brazos valley Elks 859 Cancelled. also Hwy 80. Benefits the East Texas Food Bank. CHILI GRIND, turn-in 1:00, Oct 28, 2007-002 - Terlingua TX CASI. entry fee $20.00. Limited hook-ups, no American Legion Cookoff. Held at the charge, must be reserved in advance. American Legion about 60 miles south of Early registration begins Oct. 1 and you Alpine on your way to Terlingua. Entry can register online with Paypal at fee $20 turn-in Noon. Dorathy Williams www.theranch.fm. People’s Choice 432-371-2595. award so please bring tasting chili for the public. Live music and activities starting Oct 28, 2007-003 - Temple TX CASI. at 10:00 AM. until winners are announced. Sunday Temple Cookoff. Held in No Friday or Saturday night activities. downtown Temple. See cookoff previous Contact Mandee Montana at the radio day. Entry fee $18, turn-in 1 PM. Benefits station 903 590-1939, Food Bank. Contact Mavis Nelson 254- [email protected]. Please, no pre- 715-4075, [email protected]. Or Michael registration until Oct. 1. More info Morris 254-773-5252. beginning Oct. 1 on www.theranch.fm including map and pre-registration with Oct 30, 2007-001 - Terlingua TX CASI. Paypal. Sotol Pod Cookoff. Held at the CASI site. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. There will Nov 11, 2007-001 - Dallas TX CASI. once again be a Halloween Costume LeRendezvous Held at 5934 Royal Lane, Contest Tuesday night, first prize is $300. near Preston Rd, SW corner behind Dorathy Williams 432-371-2595. LeRendezvous Restaurant. Entry fee $20 turn-in 2 PM. Make checks payable to Nov 3, 2007-001 - Terlingua TX LeRendezvous. Table Top only, no motor CASI. Terlingua International Chili homes or trailers. Charity TBD. Contact Cookoff. Held at Rancho CASI De Neta Rohr 2410 Golden Oaks Drive Garland TX 75044. 972-495-3305 Los Chisos. Must be qualified to [email protected]. September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 31

Nov 17, 2007-001 - Rowlett TX CASI. Nov 18, 2007-001 - Seguin TX CASI. pot luck dinner. Music provided by Nigel Dec 9, 2007-001 - Gonzales TX CASI. Eleventh Annual Texas Holiday Chili- Classic CASI Day After Chili CCO. Held Taco Delgado. Proceeds to benefit Katy Sunday Come & Taste It Cookoff. Held at bration Cookoff. Benefits Amateur at Lake Mc Queeney Lions Club. Entry Elks charities. Contact Larry Arnold 281- 1933 Sarah DeWitt. For local charities. Community Theatre of Rowlett. Held on fee $20 or $38 both days. Benefits Pod 392-6073. Lodge 281-391-2763 Entry fee $18, turn-in 1 PM. CHILI 3800 block of Main St. Downtown charities. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Turn-in [email protected]. GRIND ONLY. Contact Charlie Martin Rowlett. Entry fee $20.00 CASI and 1 PM. Sunday brunch. Make checks 830-857- 4711. Local Chili turn in 1:00 PM. Jackpot payable to Classic CASI Pod, 214 Signal Dec 1, 2007-003 - Waring TX CASI. beans Noon turn in, entry $10.00. Contact: Hill, Seguin TX 78155. Contact Annell 15th Annual Texas Hill Country Pod. Dec 15, 2007-001 - McGregor TX CASI. Tom Fulton, 3809 Main St., Rowlett, TX Causey 830-379-6565 Pat King 830-303- Friday night cooks’ party with music. Toys For Tots Held in McGregor Hall 75088, 972-475- 4330. Make checks 1755. Saturday there will be Jackpot beans, lcated off Hwy 84 behind the Brookshiers payable to ACT of Rowlett. green chili, Christmas decorating contest, Grocery Store at Johnson cross street. Nov 18, 2007-002 - Marble Falls, TX 786 and “Soup-off/supper”. Heated hall for Will Put in all details when date gets Nov 17, 2007-002 - Lindale TX CASI. TX CASI. Cast Off CCO. Held at Country judging, partying, dominoes, and cards. closer. Entry fee $18, turn-in 2 PM. 2nd Annual Masonic Lodge 848 CCO Lane Bowling Alley. Trophies will be cast Entry fee $18 turn-in 2 PM. Make checks CHILI GRIND ONLY. Benefits Toys For Held in Wal-Mart parking lot, at off trophies. Entry fee $18, turn-in 1 PM. payable to THC Pod. Benefits Waring Tots. Diane Stimson. winksintexas@aol intersection I-20 & State Rd Hwy 69, turn See cookoff previous day. Benefits local VFD & others. Contact Shirley Stateczny .com. for directions. north on 69 1/2 mile on right. Chili entry charities. Contact Tom Cook or Ro 830-537-4381 $20 turn-in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Wendler 512-769- 0679, 830-693-0868. [email protected] Dec 29, 2007-001 - Kingsland TX CASI. Beans $5 turn-in Noon. Please bring throw rross@tstar. net. Make checks payable to American Legion Post 437 Ladies Auxillary down chili for public. Benefits Masonic HLCP. Dec 1, 2007-004 - Rockport TX CASI. CCO. Take Hwy 1431 in Kingsland to Lodge 848 Scholarship Fund. Contact Rockport Tropical Christmas Chili Hwy 2545 East, go 1 1/2 miles and turn Bob Conley home 903-882-3095, cell Nov 24, 2007-001 - Waco TX CASI. 3rd Cookoff, held at Festival Grounds, right on Legion Loop. Entry fee $18 turn- 903-312-7241. Annual H-E-B # 5 at 9100 Woodway Rockport Harbor, no overnight camper. in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Make Drive off Hwy 84, is going to make this Benefits Camp Aranzazu. Make checks check payable to HLCP, benefits Ladies Nov 17, 2007-003 - Seguin TX CASI. cook off an annual event so it will be held payable to City of Rockport. Entry fee Auxillary Post 437. Info Carrie Kinnison Classic CASI Pod Fall Festival CCO. Held the 1st Saturday after Thanksgiving from $20 turn-in 2 PM. Contact Carolyn Cauley, P.O. Box 878 Marble Falls TX 78654. at Lake McQueeney Lions. Propane now on.A one day only cook off, No City Hall, 622 Market, Rockport TX 830-693- 5502. More info to follow. Stoves to the top ten chili winners on RV’s, e- zee ups welcome. Entry fee 78382. 361-729-2213. Exr. 121. CHILI Saturday. Entry fee $20 or $38 both days. 18.00 turn in time 2pm CHILI GRIND GRIND ONLY. Dec 29, 2007-002 - Knickerbocker TX Benefits Christian Free Clinic. Cooks party ONLY! This year there will be a junior CASI. Midnite Madness Chili 20.00 Come Friday night featuring German Food, cook off details will follow. So let’s show Dec 2, 2007-001 - Ocean City MD CASI. on out and enjoy a fun filled weekend.A 3 Games on Saturday. Pot Luck Saturday H-E-B how thankful we are for everything 9th Annual Hots for Tots CCO. Presented day event Fmi: Sammie 325 656 8299 night. Turn-in 2 PM. CHILI GRIND they have done for our chili world and lets on Sunday by Ocean City Parrothead ONLY. Pod will serve Sunday Brunch. support their charity and have a woderful Club, at the West OC Greene Turtle from Dec 30, 2007-001 - Kingsland TX CASI. Make checks payable to Classic CASI turn out!!. For directions or question 1-4 PM. Entry fee $20, turn-in 2 PM. American Legion Post 437 CCO. Held at Pod, 214 Signal Hill, Seguin TX 78155. contact either Donna Conrad e- mail CHILI GRIND ONLY. Set up after 11 American Legion Post 437, take Hwy Contact Annell Causey 830- 379-6565 or [email protected] or Dianne Stimson AM. Please bring a new or gently used toy 1431 in Kingsland to Hwy 2545 East, go Pat King 830-303-1755. 254-486-9206. Email for the charity. Great awards and goodie 1 1/2 miles and turn right on Legion Loop. [email protected]. Entry fee $18 bags for the cooks, plus free beer. Cooks Entry fee $18 turn-in 1 PM. Make check Nov 17, 2007-004 - Marble Falls TX turn-in 2 PM. Make checks payable to party night before, there will be a cooks payable to American Legion Post 437. CASI. 1st Annual Lake Country Lanes Donna Conrad/H-E-B. Benefits Juvenile room rate. Contact Jenny Windsor CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Carrie CCO Held at Lake Country Lanes bowling Diabetes. CHILI GRIND ONLY. [email protected] 443-878-7999. Kinnison P.O. Box 878 Marble Falls TX alley, Hwy 281 N, about 2 miles north of 78654 830-693-5502 Marble Falls, on the left Entry fee $18, Nov 30, 2007-001 - Angleton TX CASI. Dec 7, 2007-001 - Angleton TX CASI. turn-in 2 PM. Make check payable to 20th Annual Christmas on the Square Greater Angleton Chamber Date changed Dec 31, 2007-001 - Kingsland TX CASI. Lake Country Lane Scholarship Fund. Chili Cookoff. Chili turn- in 8 PM. Watch to November 30th. Highland Lakes Pod Ole Angzine CCO. CHILI GRIND ONLY Come out and for more details. Contact Angleton Held at American Legion Post 437, take support Mr. Isenberg, the new owner of Chamber of Commerce 979-849-6443 or Dec 8, 2007-001 - Gonzales TX CASI. Hwy 1431 in Kingsland to Hwy 2545 Lake Country Lanes, and new corporate TC Lipe 979-265-5009. Come and Taste It Cookoff. Held at 1933 East, go 1 1/2 miles and turn right on sponsor for CASI. They have put in a new Sarah DeWitt. For local charities. Entry Legion Loop. Entry fee T18 turn-in Noon. bar, and pool hall. They have washer Dec 1, 2007-001 - San Angelo TX CASI. fee $18 turn-in 2 PM. See cookoff next CHILI GRIND ONLY. Make checks pitching out doors in a nice very large 12th Annual Toys and Food For Tots day. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact payable to HLP. Contact Carrie Kinnison covered beer garden with tables and More info on this cookoff later FMI: 325- Charlie Martin 830-857-4711. P.O. Box 878 Marble Falls TX 78654 chairs. Cooks party Friday night with 656-8299 830-693-5502. discounts for the cooks on bowling, etc. RV parking available. No need to bring Dec 1, 2007-002 - Katy TX CASI. 3rd canopy, plenty of room in covered beer Annual Katy Elks Uncle Ronnie Memorial garden. Would like for all cooks to cook Chili Cookoff at Katy Elks Lodge, 1050 in beer garden. Tom Cook or Ro Wendler Katy Fort Bend Rd. 50/50 Beans, $10 512-769- 0679, 830-693-0868. entry turn- in Noon. CASI chili $20 entry rross@tstar. net. turn-in 2 PM. Chili Grind Only. Showmanship 1-3 place, 11:30 to 1:30 PM. Saturday night Christmas Party and Page 32 Terlingua Trails September 2007

Dec 31, 2007-002 - Knickerbocker TX and more. See www.hotheadschilicook Mar 8, 2008-002 - High Springs FL CASI. SACA POD Annual New Years off.9f.com. Open air cooking, covered CASI. O’Leno Ole Chili Cookoff. Held at Eve CCO More info on this later. FMI: pavilion if bad weather. Please bring 410 SE O’Leno Park Rd. Benefits Friends SAMMIE 325 656 8299 throwdown chili for public. CHILI GRIND of O’Leno Inc. Entry fee $20 turn-in 1 ONLY. Register by December 21st with PM. Info Harriet Walsh, P.O. Box 2879 Jan 5, 2008-001 - Bastrop TX CASI. Horace Ketchens P.O. Box 675, High Springs FL 32643, 386-454- 4806, American Legion Auxiliary 533 CCO. Farmerville LA 71241. 318-368-8935 [email protected] Held at Loop 150 East. Benefits [email protected]. Scholarships. Entry fee $20, turn-in 2 Mar 22, 2008-001 - Goldsmith TX CASI. PM. Make chacks payable to ALA 533. Feb 2, 2008-001 - Fort Smith AR CASI. WTBA Championship Cookoff. Held in CHILI GRIND ONLY. Contact Crystal Arkansas State Men’s Championship City of Goldsmith Park. Limited electricity Dear 281 Antioch Rd, Paige TX 78659 Arkansas State Mens Championship More $10/day. Entry fee BBQ is $75, one or all 512-844-6668 Cell, 512-253-6335 home. details later. meats. Chili is $20. Contact Sally Crawford See cook off next day same loction. 432-570-0625. Feb 2, 2008-002 - Fort Smith AR CASI. Jan 6, 2008-001 - Bastrop TX CASI. Arkansas State Women’s Championship Apr 26, 2008-001 - Midland TX CASI. Sunday American Legion Aux. 533 Arkansas State Womens Championship 24th Annual Permian Basin Cookoff. Cookoff. Held at Loop 150 East. Entry fee More details later. Details to follow. Jan Singleton. $18, turn-in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. Info Crystal Dear 512-844-6668 CELL, Feb 23, 2008-001 - Comstock TX CASI. 512-253- 6335 HOME. 3rd Annual Richard Hinds Memorial Scholarship Cookoff. Desert Hills RV Jan 18, 2008-001 - Ruston LA CASI. Park, 2 miles West of Comstock on US Friday Hot Heads Chili Cookoff. Held in Hwy 90. 432-292- 4451 for reservations. North Louisiana Expo Center. Use I-20 Limited hookups with plenty of dry east or west, to Ruston, take Hwy 33 exit camping and some rental units. Benefits north to Farmerville. Go about 5 mi and Comstock School Scholarship Fund. 1st the Expo Center is on the left. Entrance place Chili Trophy is Bronze Panther by Cornhusker continued from Page 1 will have a banner or sign. Arrival and set Lloyd Goldwire. CHILI GRIND ONLY. up anytime Friday. Benefits Jake Owen Turn in 2 PM, entry fee $18. Make Soon the laugher of children and the rhythm of music filled the air. And the breezes Raborn Foundation. Entry fee $20 turn-in checks payable to Black Gold Chili Pod. were filled with the zesty aromas of chilis, beef, and beans all simmering away – 8 PM. Limited RV spaces. Arts, Crafts, Cooks supper Friday night. 42 Domino drawing the crowds in and creating anticipation. Music and more. See web tournament Saturday night and washer www.hotheadschili cookoff.9f.com. pitching tournament Saturday afternoon. The chili was hot, but the weather was hotter! The crowds gathered underneath Open air cooking, covered pavilion if bad Dessert auction after judging. Contact the canopies set out by the local Jaycees to keep cool. Beer, hot dogs, and free weather. Please bring throwdown chili Janita Hinds 830-703-0096 or watermelon kept the crowds at bay while the cooks put the final touches on their for public. Register by December 21st [email protected] Pot luck supper concoctions. with Horace Ketchens P.O. Box 675, Saturday night with meat being furnished. Farmerville LA 71241. Email See cookoff next day same location. The multitudes were well entertained by the fierce showmanship competition that [email protected]. 318-368-8935 was underway. There were dragons, jail cells, jesters, parrots, cactus and divas at Meat open, no exotic meat. Make advanced Feb 24, 2008-001 - Comstock TX CASI. this one. By far, this was the most entertaining group of cooks in the 21-year history checks to HotHeads Cook- off/Horace Comstock School Library Cookoff. Held of the event! Ketchens. at Desert Hills RV Park, 2 miles West of Comstock on US Hwy 90. Call 432-292- Just as temperatures peaked into the high 90’s, it was turn in time. Red chili, green Jan 19, 2008-001 - Tarpon Springs FL 4451 for rsvns. Limited hookups, but chili, open beef and open bean were all consumed with gusto. A hot summer day, CASI. 3rd Annual Suncoast Chili Cookoff. plenty of dry camping and some rental with great summer foods. Held at 111 W. Lime St. Benefits Tarpon units Benefits Comstock School Library. Springs Boys & Girls Club. Entry fee $20 CHILI GRIND ONLY, turn- in Noon, As the levels in the chili pots dropped, the anxiety of the chili cooks rose. To whom turn-in 1 PM. CHILI GRIND ONLY. entry fee $18. Make checks payable to would the fates be kind? And whose hopes would be smashed on the jagged rocks Contact Derrick Janisz 179 Melody Lane, Black Gold Chili Pod. Sunday breakfast of despair? Terpon Springs FL 34689. 727-937-0320. furnished by Lorina’s Cantina. Contact The crowd did not dissipate at all when the chili ran out; they also wanted to see Janita Hinds 830-703-0096 Jan 19, 2008-002 - Ruston LA CASI. Hot [email protected]. See cookoff previous who would be the Nebraska State Champion! And then a hush fell over the cookoff Heads Chili Cookoff. Held at North day same location. site, as the cookoff organizers made their way to the stage. Louisiana Expo Center. Use I-20 east or The Nebraska State Green Chili Crown went to Steve Lee of Longmont, Colorado, west to Ruston. Take Hwy 33 exit, north Mar 8, 2008-001 - Benton AR CASI. for the 3rd time. The State Beef Title went to Shaun Meisner. The best open Beans to Farmersvile about 5 mi to the Expo VFW 2256 Ladies Auxilary Held at VFW Center on the left. There will be a banner #2256, 5323 Sleepy Village Rd. Entry fee in Nebraska were handed in by Amy Rupp or sign at entrance. Benefits American $20.00. Turn in at 1:00pm. Benefits VFW Not to be outdone by her daughter, Cheryl Rupp and the Bahamas’ Mama’s Show Cancer Society, Relay For Life. Entry fee 2256 Ladies Auxilary Scholarship Fund. Team took the State Title in a tough Showmanship contest. And then it was time $20 turn-in 2 PM. Make checks payable No outside alcohol. Bar on site. Contact for the big one. Who would walk away with the top prize? One by one the cooks HotHeads Cookoff Horace Ketchens. Bo Prewitt 501-771- 1704 or Limited RV spaces. Arts, Crafts, Music [email protected]. Cornhusker continued on Page 33 September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 33

Cornhusker continued from Page 32 Holy Smokes continued from Page 1 Alan Dean entertained the red chili judges with anecdotes of the chili world, while headed for the stage as their numbers were called. And then there were only 3 they had the challenging task of determining the winners. places left. When the crowd was full, a hush fell over the event site. And everyone knew it 3rd place went to Judy Haberman of Gering Nebraska – the highest she had ever was time to see who today’s champion would be. placed in any cookoff! 2nd Place went to Pepe’s Pod’s own Great Pepper – Kyle Haberman (and Judy’s husband) 1st Place (insert drum roll here) went to Steve Lee When the Cookoff organizers brought out beautiful hand-crafted bowls and platters of Longmont, Colorado. as trophies for the top 3 positions in all categories, the cooks were all hoping that they All in all, the members of Pepe’s Pod, who did the work, had given their creations just the right touch to put them over the top. should give themselves a pat on the back for a job that was well done! Green Chili and Salsa were both won by Steve Lee of Longmont. The 2 Brothers Chili Team from Parker pulled down the Showmanship win. Steve Lee made his Steve Lee way to the stage again to pick up 3rd place in the Red Chili Category. The E.D. himself (Alan Dean) took down 2nd place.

And finally, Amy Hardesty of Aurora, Colorado took the top honors for the day.

The event organizers would like to thank everyone who supported this event, from the cooks and judges to the very hungry public. They would also like to invite everyone back for next year’s event which they promise will be bigger and better.

Steve Lee

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Free Quarter Page Ad Advertising Rate Schedule-Effective 01/01/2003 to CASI Pods, State, Regional and Full Page 10" X 12 3/4" - $250.00 1/2 Page 5" X 12 3/4" - $130.00 International Opens 1/2 page 10" X 6 1/4" - $130.00 1/4 Page 5" X 6 1/4" - $90.00 1/8 Page 5" X 3" - $60.00 As a CASI Pod you are required to put on a pod cookoff Bottom Banner 10” X 3” - $90.00 once a year. To help you advertise your pod cookoff we allow Business Card - $40.00 each pod to place one quarter page ad in the Terlingua Trails, Classifieds - $40 - 2 inch - 3 Months each year, free of charge. This ad should run the month before All Prices Are For Camera Ready Ads (.jpg) your cookoff occurs. Should you decide that you need an ad Multiple Month Ads: larger than a quarter page we will simply bill you for the difference 3 to 5 month running ad, 15% discount per month in price. This ad should not be confused with the article 6 to 11 month running ad, 20% discount per month 12 months or more, 25% discount per month advertising your cookoff in the "Cooking with CASI Calendar" section in the Terlingua Trails. That article will start to run as soon Send ads to as you request your cookoff packet and will run until your Doug "Bucky" Seelig cookoff occurs. [email protected]

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Non Board Contributing Members

Hut Brown - Scholarship Chairman 1516 Prairie Drive El Paso, Texas 79925-2543 Home (915)772-2379 E-mail: [email protected]

Ralph Hay - Old 320 Alcalde 2505 Easy Street Pasadena, Texas 77502-3234 Home: (713)475-1660 E-mail: [email protected]

Jim Stateczny - Computer and Financial Services Green Cedar Road Boerne, Texas 78006-7929 Work: (830)537-4381 E-mail: [email protected] September 2007 Terlingua Trails Page 35

2006/2007 CASI Board of Directors CASI - Chili Appreciation Society International - Membership Application (New Member) - (Renewal Member) - (Corporate Member) - Circle One Jim Ezell - President / Sponsorship 3987 Hwy 79 South Mail form and membership fee to CASI - 150 CR 3579 - Paradise, Texas 76073 Wichita Falls, Texas 76310 Individual Membership: North American Annual Dues are $15.00 Home (940) 692-5974 (US, US Protectorates, Canada and Mexico), International Annual Dues are $30.00 Cell (214)392-3499 Lifetime Dues are $225.00 (Not available to our International Members) E-mail: [email protected] Corporate Annual Dues are $100.00 US. Jimmy Taylor Please Print Clearly 2nd VP Rancho CASI de los Chisos Chairperson 493 Stonegate Drive Johnson City, Texas 78636-4470 Name: ______Your CASI No.______Home: (830)868-2223 (For Corporate Memberships - Owner Name) (Renewals Only) FAX: (830)868-2352 E-mail: [email protected] Corporate/Business Name: ______Renee Moore - Vice President / Articles Editor (Corporate Membership Only - List as you wish on your Plaque) PO Box 5834 Gulf Shores, Alabama 36547-5834 Chili Team Name: ______Occupation: ______Home: (251)949-7000 Work: (251)968-1125 Fax: (251)968-1470 Street Address or PO Box: ______Telephone No:)(____)______E-mail: [email protected] Alan Dean - Executive Director City, State, Zip+4: ______E-Mail: ______112 Leaning Oak Circle Johnson City, Texas 78636 Home:(512)567-2835 E-mail: [email protected] Upcoming Cookoff Information Sheet Garnier Albus -Treasurer P O Box 123 FILL OUT AND MAIL TO: CASI Upcomings - PO Box 39 - Terlingua, Texas 79852-0039 Amarillo, TX 79105-0123 Home: (806)353-0500 Please list the following Upcoming Cookoff in the Terlingua Trails. Phone or Fax 1-888-227-4468 Cell: (806)679-1952 E-mail: [email protected] Date and City: ______Ed Blair - Secretary 5122 Autumn Forest Dr Cookoff Name:______Houston, TX 77091-5004 (713) 686-4520 Home Street Address/Location:______Cell: 832-567-5558 E-mail: [email protected] ______Mikie McGarity - Membership 150 CR 3579 Paradise, TX 76073 CASI Sanctioned: ______Charity: ______Home: (817)975-2200 E-mail [email protected] Turn-in Time: ______Entry Fee:______Bill Pierson - Tallymaster P.O. Box 727 Checks Payable to: ______Bativia, Illinois 60510-0727 Home: (630)879-7934 Information Contact: ______E-mail: [email protected] Ken Rodd - Chilicity/Public Relations Contact Address: ______P.O. Box 2037 Manchaca, TX 78652 Cell: (210)887-8827 Contact Phone Number:______E-mail: [email protected] Preregistration Deadline (If Applicable): ______Special Meat: ______Dorathy Williams - Upcomings PO Box 39 Terlingua, TX 79852-0039 Mail Judging Packet to: ______Upcomings: Phone or Fax 1-888-CASI-HOT Home: (432)371-2595 ______E-mail: [email protected]

Doug (Bucky) Seelig-Terlingua Trails Need Rule Book: (Yes) or (No) Chili Grind Only: (Yes) or (No) P.O. Box 859 Send ______Boxes of Terlingua Trails - Each box contains 25 copies of the Terlingua Trails Fredericksburg, Texas 78624 Cell (512) 965-4564 Send me CASI Judging Cup Tickets (no charge): Yes No , approximate number of tickets: ______E-mail: [email protected] Fax 1-888-227-4468 Proud Sponsor of CASI