Suffolk Chilli Fest
 

Sorry but I kind of hijacked the other thread (probably a good thing) so I figured I'd start a new thread. If any one lives around the Tidewater Virginia area our club is holding a Chili Fest/ Cook Off in Suffolk Va. on April 10th. The proceeds go to benefit local children with speech and hearing impairments. For more information or if you would like to send a donation please click on the link provided. We aslo are having a Cornhole competition which if your interested please let me know. We are also looking to sign up anyone who wants to enter the cook off.

[URL="http://www.suffolkchilifest.com/info.html"]Chili Fest[/URL]

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Figures I'd spell Chili wrong in the title.

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[quote=firstdown;678521]Figures I'd spell Chili wrong in the title.[/quote]


LOL!

I have been building graphs all day and the Y access on all of them requires millions as the title. Sometimes I spelled it with two L's and sometimes one.

This letter combo after time makes you go cross eye:

illi

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Well tomorrow is the day and if anyone wants to come out I'll be happy to buy them a beer. Also I'd like to thank everyone who donated money to our club and we will use the money to help a child who has a hearing or speech problem. Looks like we have sold around 600 to 700 tickets so we could have well over a thousand people and I'm not sure if the guys know what its like to handle a crowd of that size. I have done something like this for anothe club and I have given them warning but not sure if it really sank in. I'll let you know how things go.

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first, you going to take any pics? and its too bad im working. i wouldn't mind coming

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[quote=dmek25;686227]first, you going to take any pics? and its too bad im working. i wouldn't mind coming[/quote]
I will take a few pics if I remember my camera. As a club we will get plenty of pics because we have one person who is in charge of taking pics at any of our events.

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good luck with your event 1st!

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Thanks. The weather will be perfect, we have sold a bunch of tickets, we have 20 chili teams (thats 10 more then last year), the beer truck is coming, the band is good, so I think we are all set. I just have 500 hot dogs and 500 brats to cook tomorrow so I'll be busy but they were donated so its all profit. I think this year we got this event over the hump. I'll let you guys know Monday.

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SBF going to be there?

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[quote=firstdown;686238]Thanks. The weather will be perfect, we have sold a bunch of tickets, we have 20 chili teams (thats 10 more then last year), the beer truck is coming, the band is good, so I think we are all set. I just have 500 hot dogs and 500 brats to cook tomorrow so I'll be busy but they were donated so its all profit. I think this year we got this event over the hump. I'll let you guys know Monday.[/quote]


I was going to say last weekend was probably a bit too hot, Chili is the last thing I want on a 90 degree day.

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[quote=dmek25;686269]SBF going to be there?[/quote]

You usually don't grill chili, so I doubt it.

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best wishes with it man!

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Guy's this day went off bigger then we thought and we had 19 teams cooking gallons of chili run out by 3 pm surving 2 oz tasting cups. I cooked so many hot dogs I don't think ill eat one again. I'm pretty bused now but I drank only a few at the event because we were to busy. For a small event we drank the beer druck out sucking down 14 kegs. I have pics and may be my wif e can post them . This may be should be posted in the drunk thred. GO PHILL

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The paper gave us a pretty good write up but I wish they posted more picks of the crowd.

[URL="http://hamptonroads.com/2010/04/competition-gets-heated-annual-suffolk-chili-cookoff#rfq"]Competition gets heated at annual Suffolk chili cookoff | HamptonRoads.com | PilotOnline.com[/URL]

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they might have some other pics that they'll send you

have you gotten the ones back from the photog you guys use yet?

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[quote=tryfuhl;686836]they might have some other pics that they'll send you

have you gotten the ones back from the photog you guys use yet?[/quote]
Whats a photog?

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Well here is a little up date sense a few guys here sent us a donation. As of right now we made right at $6,500 after all the bills got paid. We still have $1,500 in corporate donations that we have not received but we are holding out hope those two companies still send us a check. This evene almost got scratched because last year we made $275 but we decided to give it one more try and it really paid off

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Great to hear, firstdown

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[quote=firstdown;697161]Well here is a little up date sense a few guys here sent us a donation. As of right now we made right at $6,500 after all the bills got paid. We still have $1,500 in corporate donations that we have not received but we are holding out hope those two companies still send us a check. This evene almost got scratched because last year we made $275 but we decided to give it one more try and it really paid off[/quote]


wow companies will really say they will donate then not spit up the money, that is cold.

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[quote=mredskins;697176]wow companies will really say they will donate then not spit up the money, that is cold.[/quote]

Well not sure the whole story on that because a member my have jumped the gun some and spoke before a decision was ever made by the company. We have 4 to 5 local companies that suport us so if we get the money great if not we will probably get a donation when we have our gold outing.

I did convince the club that we need our own web site that people can see what we are doing and have done in the past. We could list our meetings and also have a pay pal account set up for people who would just like to donate money to the club. The bad news is they have put me in charge of this and I don't knw squat about setting up a web page.

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[quote=firstdown;686865]Whats a photog?[/quote]
photographer

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[quote=firstdown;697194]Well not sure the whole story on that because a member my have jumped the gun some and spoke before a decision was ever made by the company. We have 4 to 5 local companies that suport us so if we get the money great if not we will probably get a donation when we have our gold outing.

I did convince the club that we need our own web site that people can see what we are doing and have done in the past. We could list our meetings and also have a pay pal account set up for people who would just like to donate money to the club. The bad news is they have put me in charge of this and I don't knw squat about setting up a web page.[/quote]
[URL="http://www.thewarpath.net/678546-post1064.html"]What'd I tell you man[/URL]? I'll help you out; I can't say I'll have it done immediately due to having a full-time, non-related job, but it'd probably be fully functional before someone else from the group would, unless they're web-inclined. Get some ideas from the group as far as what you want and let me know.

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I knew you offered in this thread but I didn't want to just come out and ask. I think our main office ofr our organiztion has stuff on their site that we can use when we set up a site and I'm going to give them a call Monday. All we are looking for is a site that tells who we are and what we have done over the years. We would like it so we can go in and post pics, list events and that about all we need. Oh, and we also want to do as you said and put a link to our pay pal account we will set up. I'll let you know what I find out after talking to our main office and thanks for helping us out.

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I'm the same way man, if I don't accept at the offer I'm not going to come back and ask either. A fairly static site is what it seems. We can integrate a calendar and photo gallery no problem, or do kind of an all-in-one approach with a Content Management System if you plan on frequent updates. I'll try to kick around some ideas as far as how things should be displayed, etc. The Paypal integration will be a breeze.

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[IMG]http://Shortcut (2) to Picture 009[/IMG]

Not sure if this is working or not but I had to take some pictures of a customers house and I figured out how to email them and thought I'd try to see if I could post one. This is a pick from the chilli fest.

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I see it showed up as a red x can you open it up?

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nope. you have to actually load the picture to the internet then post the link here, or atleast thats why i fgured out how to do. the easist way, and i'm saying that cause i figured it out, is to create an account with photobucket.com and load them there

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[quote=mlmdub130;709640]nope. you have to actually load the picture to the internet then post the link here, or atleast thats why i fgured out how to do. the easist way, and i'm saying that cause i figured it out, is to create an account with photobucket.com and load them there[/quote]

I'll have to give that a try. I signed up for an account there today but when I hooked up my camera to the computer some program came up that allowed me to save them and then forward them as an attachment to an email. Thats a good start for me. LOL

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yeah once you have them saved on your computer it's pretty easy to use photo bucket, and this is coming from a guy who types with two fingers :D

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I type with one.LOL

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You guys type will your........ fingers ..... ??????

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[IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz229/bryankenny64/Chili/Picture011.jpg[/IMG]

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[IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz229/bryankenny64/Chili/Picture010.jpg?t=1277907568[/IMG]

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[IMG]http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/zz229/bryankenny64/Chili/Picture009-1-1-1.jpg?t=1277908516[/IMG]

OK, so I have figured out how to post a pic but I need to work on resizing. I do it in photobucket but for some reason it doe not carry over to here.

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Here is a bonus pic. LOL

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thats a real bonus, thanks:)

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I thought that would make someones day. Thing is she is probably sexy to someone.

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We had our chili fest this weekend and it went OK. I think I have finally convinced everyone to switching it to a BBQ competition. We really had a hard time again this year finding enough people to cook chili in the competition. I just think there are more places that cook BBQ and it will be allot easier to find teams. What do you guys think.

After looking at his pics I think I can get Monkfan4life to enter. Hell I might even sponsor him.

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[quote=firstdown;791904]We had our chili fest this weekend and it went OK. I think I have finally convinced everyone to switching it to a BBQ competition. We really had a hard time again this year finding enough people to cook chili in the competition. I just think there are more places that cook BBQ and it will be allot easier to find teams. What do you guys think.

After looking at his pics I think I can get Monkfan4life to enter. Hell I might even sponsor him.[/quote]


BBQ is more a spring food where chili in my mind is a winter food. Plus BBQ is meant to be eaten outside. People seem to be now a days to be more passionate about BBQ.

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Our problem was not getting people to come to the event its finding teams to cook the chili.