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Chili Cook-Off & Member Mixer
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September 18 - It was a spicy night for chili and chillin’ with our peeps at the annual BATC Chili Cook-off. Pat Hegseth took home the top prize, but in his impeccable manner, he gave his $100 prize to the BATC Foundation and sold his recipe for $5 Foundation donations, too.
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Chili Cook-Off & Member Mixer: (from left to right, top to bottom) 1. Chili and Fixin’s were spread out all over BATC’s seminar room 2. Rick Kot, R.A. Kot Homes with Kathe Ostrom, C.N. Ostrom & Son 3. Steve Williams, JMS Custom Homes and John Zirbes, Lyman Lumber 4. Bob Cremers and Deb Hitchcock, the Builders Club taste testing 5. John Taylor, Marvin Windows and Doors (wow that was spicy) with Todd Polifka, Brush Masters 6. Jennifer McAlpin, Midwest Home Magazine with her favorite chili 7. Digging in to see which of the 16 chilis was the best 8. Mary Pesavanto, Granite-Tops and Doug Town, Mingle 9. Ruth Petermann, SendOutCards by Petermann Enterprises and Ryan Ohr, IKO 10. Tracy Foslien, Lamperts Cabinet Design Group accepting “best off the wall” chili award (entered with Brenda Southwick and Christine Corning) from Curt Christensen, Lee Lyn Construction 11. Hottest chili went to ProBuild’s Mike Nesseth 12. Second place went to Andy Lau, ProBuild 13. Big winner Pat Hegseth, Great Plains Millwork won both the top prize and “most colorful”
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