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Once
more, it was Bill Wandrack stirring up the best chili in Saturday’s second
annual Four-Alarm Chili Cook-Off at the Wake Forest Farmers’ Market, and once
again Wake Forest Fire Department’s Station #2 will receive the proceeds from
the raffles and other market fund-raisers.
This
year’s cook-off was a great success, organizer Terri Wilkinson said. “The
weather was perfect; the music was lovely. The contestants were enthusiastic
and all are looking forward to participating next year.” Generous tastes of the
chili, more than at other cook-offs, were popular.
The
event netted $1,000 for the fire department. The other participating fire
departments were Station #1 in Wake Forest, New Hope, Rolesville and
Brassfield.
There
were two other categories, All-Meat and Anything Goes, with eight entries in
each.
Katherine
O’Kobrick won first place in the All-Meat category with Mimi’s Company Chili,
the one her grandmother made for company. The other winners were Helaine Bilos
with Wicked Good Chili and Eric Carlson with Dave’s “You Can’t Afford It”
Chili.
In
the Anything Goes contest, Helaine Bilos and the Wake Forest Church of the
Nazarene tied for first place and both donated the $50 first prize to the fire
department. O’Kobrick added beans to Mimi’s Company Chili and took second
place, and Catherine DeWitt took third place with Ooooh Baby, Chili.
The
judges were Barry Barker, a chef, photographer and web designer; Jay Lamm, a
photographer with The Franklin Times, Bill Joyner, the proprietor of Shorty’s;
Bob Johnson, the owner of The Cotton Company who describes himself as a
peddler; Wake Forest Commissioner Frank Drake; and Alden Hanson, the art
teacher at Rolesville Elementary School.
The
Wake Forest Farmers’ Market is open from 8 a.m. to noon every Saturday and has
just decided to extend its season through Thanksgiving. There will also be a
special holiday sale on Saturday, Dec. 15. During January, February and March,
the market will be open one Saturday a month in a location and on dates to be
announced.
This
spring, summer and fall the market is in the gazebo parking lot on South White
Street, which is parallel to South Main Street and a block east.
Local
vendors, who vary from week to week although there are a few stalwarts, offer
local produce, meat, poultry, eggs, flowers, stained glass, honey, pottery,
baked goods and other wonderful things.
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