From Jen Cook:
March 6-7th @ Gander Mountain
Rose City Chili Pod will host thier Annual Cook-offs
CASI Chili, Junior's Chili, Beans and Wings will be prepared and judged on Saturday and People's Choice Chili will be served to the public for a small donation.

Saturday benefits CAMP TYLER and Sunday is for Points Only and will raise money for the RCCP operating account.

We are looking for cooking teams, volunteers, judges and of course Sponsors for this awesome event.

There will be cooks from all over Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and maybe California.  So come Cook, Volunteer, Judge, Sponsor or ALL OF THE ABOVE!

Just let us know you are coming and what your interests are.  Invite your friends to come judge People's Choice for small donation to Camp Tyler.

Sunday is CASI Chili and Showmanship-we need judges and volunteers.

From Jen Windsor:
Last Battle over Baghdad

Here is where we stand today:

We have all the tomato sauce (50 cans), all the sayzon, 25 beef/chicken broth donated. Meat is going thru Ft Hood from Donna Conrad. Mild Bills is sending enough spices for 50 cooks - none of it pre mixed or ready mix or whatever the term is.

Tamara Dees (Mild Bill's Spices) set up a donation area on her website. It will be used to offset any large shipping costs for supplies sent. The balance of the money collected will be a donation to the Boys/Girls Scouts of Iraq.

An anonymous donation of $750 came in yesterday. It was for 50 pots at $15 a pot. We only need 30 more pots so those will be purchased from a Dollar General, good will, etc type store and shipped direct. The balance of the donated money will be used to offset shipping costs. About 10 cooks have stepped forward to donate and send slightly used pots, with their recipes and other momentous to the soldiers. Pretty neat idea!

We are shipping everything directly to Roxanna Ponce De Leon at her APO addy. If it doenst have her name on it, she wont get it.

At this time we need about 15 can openers and 15 measuring spoon sets.

The FB page is up and we are updating it daily with info and the names of donors. Our drop dead date on shipping is March 10th. Its taking about 15 +/- days for supplies to reach Baghdad.


Here's hoping that everybody has a GREAT weekend!