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Chili champs
Winners named as organizers mark
last year at helm of annual event
Pumpkin festival winners named
The rain did nothing to cool off the heat
at the18th Annual Great Lakes Regional
Chili Cook-off indowntownPlymouthOct. 6.
According to organizers Ken and Annette
Horn, more than 60 different chilies were
entered in various categories along with
chili from 16 restaurants vying for awards.
The Horns marked their last year as organ-
izers of the event and officially turned over
their responsibilities for the annual event to
FrankAgostini fromE.G. Nick's restaurant.
Winners included Leo Buk at Nuclear
Chili who took theBest Boothprize.
The People's Choice award for chili went
to Chris Thompson of Westland who pre-
pared Irish Fire Chili. First place for salsa
went to Gail Kyle of Gail's Salsa in
Dearborn. Richard Chauvin of Windsor,
Ontario took first place in the Chili Verde
category.
First place honors for red chili went to
Diane Lentz of Nicholasville, KY who pre-
paredBell BreezingBordelloChili.
First place winners in salsa, verde and
red chili advance to the 2014 World
Championship Chili Cook-off sanctioned by
the International Chili Society.
The hotly contested Restaurant Chili
Challenge People's Choice honors went to
TAP at MGMGrand Detroit. Famous Dave's
from Westland took the first place judges'
prize among the restaurant contenders.
Other restaurants who participated in
the event included: Compari's On The Park,
Doyle's Tavern, E.G. Nick's, Ironwood Grill,
Nico&Vali ItalianMarket, PennGrill &Bar,
Plymouth ROC, Rusty Bucket Corner
Tavern, Sean O'Callaghan's, The Picnic
BasketMarketplace and Jeff ZakCatering
The event was sponsored this year by:
MGM Grand Detroit, Motor City Harley
Davidson in Farmington Hills, Dick Scott's
Classic Motorcycles in Livonia, Fox 2
Detroit, Greko Printing and Imaging, The
Observer & Eccentric Newspapers,
Sportswear Specialties Inc., MajicWindows,
Community Financial Credit Union, The
Concept Factory Web Design, Allstate
Insurance, Cheryl Bowker Agency, 104.3
WOMC, Hanson's Windows, PODS Portable
On Demand Storage, DTE Energy, GFS
Gordon Food Marketplace, Monroe Bank &
Trust, PNC Bank, E.G. Nick's and Charter
OneBank.
Proceeds from the sale of chili samples
and the motorcycle ride-in will go to benefit
the Penrickton Center for Blind Children
andHabitat forHumanity.
Leo Buk took home the Best Booth prize during the Great Lakes Chili Regional Cook-off in
Plymouth Oct. 6. Buk's Nuclear Chili booth is always a favorite with crowds.
Photo by Jill Andra
Young
Several Romulus residents are still cele-
brating their recent wins in various cate-
gories during the Pumpkin Festival last
month.
In the Baked Goods Division,
Bernadette Parkins won first place for her
apple pie while Linda Schulz and Carol
Allmon took second and third prizes,
respectively.
In the Sweet Potato Pie category, first
place went to Calvin Richardson and sec-
ond place to Marie Charles. Charles also
won first place for her peach cobbler.
In the Pumpkin Pie category, Justin
Kuderik won first place and Marie Charles
took secondplacehonors.
The Canned Goods division was won by
Jim and Sandy Chapman in the Peaches
category and Sylvia Winedoff in the Beets
category.
Darryl Zilka won first place for pickles
while Bernard Parkins took the second
placehonors.
James Taylor won first place for his
tomatoes and Jim and Sandy Chapman
took secondplace in the tomato category.
Sunflower Growing division honors
went to Ray Dubisky in first place, Sheri
Adams in second place and Mike Sharp in
third.
323 acres but were never paid. Notices of
taxes due or delinquency on the 190 acres
never went to the City of Detroit, the true
owner, due to the incorrect recording in the
township assessor's office. Supervisor
Richard Reaume, by township charter, is the
chief assessing officer for the township,
although the actual assessing is done by an
outside provider, Wayne County Appraisals,
based inWestland.
The township paid $606,150 in 2011 for
two parcels of land totaling 323 acres being
foreclosed and sold by Wayne County for
back taxes. According to the affidavit filed
Jan. 9, the 190-acre parcel of the former
Detroit House of Corrections property bor-
dered by Napier, Five Mile, Beck and Ridge
roads still belonged to the City of Detroit.
The two land parcels had not been correctly
split and identified as owned separately in
the township assessor's office which caused
tax bills for the entire 323 acres to go to a cor-
poration, Demco 54, which owned only 132
acres of the land.
When property taxes were not paid on
either parcel, the county treasurer offered
the entire property for sale for back taxes in
September of 2011.
The motion to dissolve the administrative
closing will be heard this month by Judge
MariaOxholm.
Land
FROM PAGE 1
Brock Russell Lambert, the son of Eric and
Jaclyn Lambert of Hannan Road in Romulus, was
born at 2:31 a.m. Sept. 6 at the University of
MichiganHospital inAnnArbor.
The new arrival weighed 8 pounds, 6 ounces and
measured 20½ inches in length.
He will join a sister, Lila Ann Lambert, 2½, at
home.
Maternal grandparents of the infant are Joyce
andRichEvans of Romulus.
Paternal grandmother of the baby is Maria
Lambert, also of Romulus.
Brock Russell Lambert
Son is welcomed