The 21st Annual Great Rotary Fremont Chili Cookoff

Description

The Area 3 Clubs of District 5170 Rotary International with the help of Our Local Firefighters will host The 21st Annual Great Rotary Chili Cook Off on Sunday, June 10, 2012 from 11 am to 5 pm. The Cook Off will take place in the parking lot of The Saddle Rack, 42011 Boscell Road, Fremont. It will feature chili tasting, live music by Jewels Hanson & Diablo Road and Full Throttle, and a live performance by Star Struck Theater. There will be Life Saving Demonstrations, Jaws-of-life Extractions and Fire Safety Presentations by our Platinum Sponsor Fremont Local 1689 (Your Local Firefighters), Activities for the kids, a “Tug-o-War” contest between Fire Houses, arts & crafts and food booths and lots of raffle prizes.

Admission is $10 for adults (includes 6 chili tasting ticket and one voting ticket) free for children 6 and under. Tickets can be purchased in advance (at a discount) for $8.00 each on-line at http://www.FremontChiliCookOff.org.

Area 3 is comprised of six (6) Rotary Clubs: Niles (Fremont) Rotary, Fremont Rotary, Mission San Jose Rotary, Fremont Warm Springs Sunrise Rotary, Newark Rotary and FUN (Fremont, Union City, and Newark) Sunset Rotary. This year’s fundraising goal is $30,000, which will benefit the Tri-City Rotary Clinic, Washington on Wheels, the Alisa Ann Ruch Burn Foundation, HOPE Project Mobile Clinic and two Firefighters charities to be named later by the winners of their competitions.

The Cook Off will include approximately 30 booths serving People’s Choice Chili concocted by Rotary Clubs, community and church groups, businesses, firehouses and individuals. Among them will be The Holy Habaneros, winners of the People’s Choice Award for the past four years.

Cook Off attendees will receive a booklet containing one Voting Ticket along with six tasting tickets and many coupons and acknowledgments for our wonderful sponsors. They will cast their votes by presenting their Voting Ticket to their favorite booth. The booth ending the day with the most tickets wins bragging rights for the next year.

In addition to the People’s Choice competition, there will be other competitions like best Firehouse chili, best Rotary Chili, best decorated booth.

Major sponsors of this year’s Great Rotary 21st Annual Chili Cook Off include - Fremont Local 1689 (Your Local Firefighters), Fremont Bank, Coach Automotive Restyling, Washington Hospital Healthcare System, Kinder’s BBQ, The Saddle Rack, Magnum Drywall, James R Griffin Construction Inc, Niles (Fremont) Rotary, DRYCO Construction Inc., Bruce's Tire Inc., Allied Waste, Almaden Press, and the NFL Alumni.

More Info

Link

http://www.fremontchilicookoff.org

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510-438-6500 (Box Office)

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