NEWS

The process for seating all of the pods at the Great Peppers Meeting continues as we review and organize the information supplied on the pod’s annual reports. All of the reports and information are required to be complete one week from today to guarantee each pod’s delegate to be seated.

To date, we have received reports from forty-nine pods and twenty-nine have been cleared for seating. The other twenty are working to supply pod cookoff ads and to make sure their incoming officers and referees are paid CASI members for next year.

There are twenty pods that we have not heard from, so far. They are: Alpine Chili Society, Black Sheep of Texas Pod, Capital Pod, CASINOVA Pod, Chiliheads of Arizona, Chili Hawg Pod, Classic CASI, Cowtown Pod, Indiana Pepper Pod, Iowa Chili Pod, Keystone State Pod, La CASI Louisianne, MO-KAN Pod, Old Dominion Pod, Pacific Pod, Pod of the Pass, Thousand Trails-Whitney, Top of Texas, Virgin Pod, and the Yavapai Chili Society. If you are a member of one of these pods, you might want to check with your Great Pepper to see if you can help them complete their reports and get them in on time.

Sad news. Vickie Childers mother passed away yesterday morning. Services will be held on Friday (no time at this point). She is at Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home in Amarillo. Mothers name: Rhelan Extosito If you’d like to send a card, Vickie Childers, 4300 Olsen, Amarillo, TX 79106. Please keep Vickie and her family in yoru thoughts and prayers.

RESULTS and UPCOMINGS

“Chili Cook-off reminder-----Saturday October 18,2008, Indian Springs,Texas benefiting the IndianSprings Volunteer Fire Department. CASI-Chili Grind only-$20 entry fee turn-in 2 o'clock Showmanship------12:30 Jackpot Beans--$10 entry 50/50 split for 1st & 2nd place turn-in 11am Gumbo( Chicken/Sausage) $10 entry 50/50 split for 1st & 2nd place turn-in 1'oclock Gumbo only may be precooked and brought in crockpot (on the 1st&2nd split 50% goes to Fire Dept and 50% is split between 1st & 2nd place.

Friday October 17 there will be a live AUCTION at 7pm---the kitchen will be open at 6pm selling Indian Tacos & Snacks---Saturday Breakfast will be from 8am to 10:30am & lunch will start at noon.

Indian Springs is a community one block off Hwy 190 between Livingston and Woodville For more information contact Pat Quinlan at hairlady11@yahoo.com or 936-327-3544 days and 936-563-4420 after 6pm. (Pat Krenek)

POTPOURRI

Happy Birthday to Rick Butler, Clem Clement, and Mick Joplin.

“I spent a lot of money on booze, birds and fast cars. The rest I just squandered.” - George Best

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