From Joe Spears:
Choctaw casino`s CCO Sept 4,5 2010.
1. Both of the CCO`s 9/4, 9/5 will be held at the Choctaw casino`s RV park. The Cooks RV price is reduced from 45.00 to 25.00 per night. There is a shuttle service to the casino.
2. CCO Fee is 20.00 entry fee both days. There is a Junior division CCO on Sat. is 10.00
3. There will be no beans cook off.
4. The casino would not reduce their room rate but there is a discount at the Microtel motel, on the south side of the casino single room 50.00 + Tax per night, double room 65.00 + tax, suite 75.00 + tax.
There is a shuttle service to casino, and RV park.
For reservations. call Kyle brown at 1-580-924-5100. Mention you are a chili cook for discounts.
5. All facilities at the RV park are available. full hookups; full kitchen, showers, and laundry facilities; salt water swimming pool; dog park; 3 large propane grills, and a large fire pit and much more.
I have worked out several discounts, players cards, fuel, dining etc.
Anyone who can bring throw down chili, please do as the casino is planning to sell tasters cups to the public.
Sorry for the late information but the plans are only just now being finalized last week, and I am still working on other discounts and deals from the casino.
This is going to be a great CCO, and fun for everyone please spread the word.
Hope to see you there.
Feel free to email, or call Joe Spears at joe.spears42@yahoo.com , 405-275-1164 any time.
From Larry Burress:
Arrangements have been made to provide discounted room rates ($79.00/night + tax) at The Hampton Inn & Suites in Buda, across from the cook-off site at Cabela’s. Be sure to ask for the chili cook-off rate. The rooms are for Friday & Saturday night with a deadline of August 9, 2010. Tele (512) 295-4900
NOTE: There have been some questions concerning the 2nd Post on Friday. We the CASI Board of Directors have requested a vote from the Great Pepper's concerning the situation below.
Dorathy,
I am in trouble again. I swear I sent you an email telling you about the Washington State CASI CCO on Sunday 8 Aug in Olympia, WA. I never received an envelope from you with the paperwork. Is there anything you can do about that now? The Farmer's Market is all ready for it and I am getting lots of cooks to say they will be there. I guess it is a good thing I am no longer going to be Great Pepper anymore. Maybe the next guy will do better. We got 15 cooks at the Pod CCO so we are off probation for that (except I was not the one who promoted the Pod CCO last year that put us on probation for that one.) I am really sorry to put you in such a position but I don't know what to do now. Thank you for your support if you can or still if you can't thank you for thinking about it anyway. Ken Peach8 August 2010 Olympia, WA
Cookoff Name: Washington State CASI Championship CCO
Street Address/Location: 700 Capitol Way N., Farmer's Market, Olympia, WA
CASI Sanctioned: Yes Charity: Friends of the Market (Homeless people)
Turnin Times: 1200 Homestyle 1PM CASI chili Entry Fee: $20 CASI Homestyle: +$5
Checks Payable to Puget Pod:
Information Contact: Ken Peach
Contact Address: 3125 148th St. E., Tacoma, WA 98446
Contact Phone: 253-537-4591 Email Address: kkmpeach@aol.com
Preregistration Deadline: 30 Jul Special Meat: No
Mail Judging Packet to: Ken Peach
Need Rule book: No Chili grind only: No
Send no boxes of Terlingua Trails
Send no CASI Judging tickets as I still have plenty.
Please help me or a mob of chili cooks will be using me for their meat at the homestyle event on 8 Aug.
Dear Ken, I don't have any record of an email from you about this event,I wish I could do something for you, but a cookoff cannot be sanctioned if it is not published in the Trails, and July 15th was the last day to do that. Sorry I can't help you with this.
You can have the cookoff just for fun, but it will not be sanctioned. Dorathy (This is the correct answer according to our Rulebook. Dorathy did her job.)
Here are the actions that followed: I sent the following information to all of the Great Peppers. I did have 3 messages return as undeliverable. If you are a GP and did not get this email, please send me your correct email address. I am going to give you the background information. Earlier this week (above email) Ken Peach (Puget Pod) contacted Dorathy telling her that he could not find the paperwork for the Washington State Chili Championship and would she resend it to him. Dorathy replied that she had never sent the paperwork because the CCO had never been scheduled. She quoted the rule (Rule V.A.2.) “All cookoffs MUST be publicized in the TERLINGUA TRAILS in the month previous to the entrance deadline.”
After that email was sent to Ken, I received some emails and phone calls from CASI members from the Washington State area expressing their disappointment in not caring about CASI enough to waiver the Rule this time. Ken did find the paperwork that he had filled out and believed that a copy had been send to Dorathy. In the confusion following the death of his wife this spring, he thought that he had misplaced this paperwork.
I then sent the information to the Rules Committee who reviewed it and provided me with the following information. The Rules Committee reviews the provided details of a possible Rule infraction and then determines if it is indeed a rule infraction. They determined that this is definitely a rule infraction and that they could not waiver this rule only report their findings. They recommended that since this was the Washington State Open not just a small CCO that this issue should be brought to the BOD for evaluation.
I forwarded the information to the BOD, but reminded them that the GPs are the group who have the authority to waive a rule. A discussion began among the BOD.
Since the BOD directors cannot waive a rule and the fact that it takes a vote of the GP’s as well as rge BODs to either change rules that are submitted as new rules or amendments to the current rule at the GPM. The BOD is responsible for the Bylaws, not the Rules. Therefore, since this was the Washington State Open Championship, we voted to send the information to the GPs for their consideration.
Since we are trying to have better communication with the CASI members, and this was an issue that members from the West Coast had expressed their concerns that there is a lack of understanding and caring about promoting CASI especially in this area of the country where CASI has and is struggling, we, the BOD felt that this issue and the information should be sent to the GPs for their consideration.
I did not personally send out the information because at the present time I am in MO at Cliff’s Mother’s and not only does she not have internet, she does not own a computer. This is a small town and I have to find a WI FI hotspot to be able to send emails, etc. The other problem is that at home I receive emails on Outlook express, when I am on the road I can only get my emails be signing into Suddenlink. My group contact addresses are not in the address book in Suddenlink. Since Roger is the Secretary and he also has the group contact list for the GP’s, I asked him to forward this information to you, the GPs.
Yes, allow the Washington State Championship to be sanctioned, or
No, do not allow the Washington State Championship to be sanctioned.
Please reply with your vote to both Renee Moore & Janice Miller rmoore@gulfshoresal.gov, garjans@suddenlink.net no later than 9:00 Wednesday August 4th.
