Chili, Hot Cocoa Contests
With recipes in hand, a dozen cooks are honing their skills at combining favored ingredients with hopes their preparation will be chosen as the preferred chili or most flavorful hot cocoa creation. All the activity precedes next week’s third annual “Snow Day at the Emerald,” sponsored by Sparrow Clinton Hospital Auxiliary.
The event begins around 3p.m. Saturday January 29 and extends throughout the evening. Tickets for the day are $15 per person which includes indoor/outdoor activities, entertainment by the Bill Brown band, a hot dog, hamburger and fixings dinner along with an open bar.
Craig Smith representing Main Street Café; Dave Hunt, Big Boy Restaurant; Anita Rositas, personal and Judy Miller, Sparrow Clinton Hospital
Outdoors the schedule calls for such activities as cross country skiing, snowshoeing, hiking around the Emerald golf course and, of course, the popular late afternoon and evening bonfire. Indoors there’ll be cards and Wii games, tables for private card games and social times.
With ink to the dotted line, Erika Jerome enters Nic’s Restaurant and Bowl of Ovid as a contestant in the Snow Day chili cook off.
“While time is running down, if there are any other chili or cocoa cooks who wish to join the challenge, we can add them to the list,” explained co-chair Kathie Clock. The current chili list includes Bruno’s Bar, Big Boy Restaurant, Nic’s Restaurant and Bowl, Galesk Tree Farm, The Hitching Post, Main Street Café, The Emerald, The Wheel Inn, Sparrow Clinton Hospital, Swany’s Pub and Grup and one individual entry, Anita Rositas.
Three ladies will be offering their number one hot cocoa recipes. They are Ann Hufnagel, Nancy Mino and Anita Rositas.
Tickets for Snow Day may be purchased by contacting Kathie Clock, 989 834-2412, co-chair Robin Motz-Ingalls, 989 224-8320 or any Sparrow Clinton Hospital Auxiliary member. As with all Auxiliary projects, proceeds from the “Snow Day” event will be directed toward patient and service needs of Sparrow Clinton Hospital.