Cook-off

And we've got Glow Wild Lantern Festival over at Little Rock Zoo.

the zoo, Bryant Fall Fest in Bryant, Garden Forest Festival in Garden, Downtown Fall Festival and Chili Cook-Off up in Russellville and we've got the spooktacular Hot Springs Renaissance Fair in Hot Springs so all of this can be found plus much more at entertainersguide.com and I will be in the Caribbean over November so I'll be calling in so I had to get my one last in studio, I know y'all are on site over there but it's been good to have a big huge fall, I feel like this October has been a lot of fun

Is this the annual trip where we always talk about how we're going to come and then we never can make it down?

Yes, yes, that's the one.

We want to do as many concerts and 5Ks and festivals as we can.

And so, you know, with that in mind, coming up here on October 24th, which is Saturday, we have our Chili Cook-Off.

As you know, Vic, in this community, the Chili Cook-Off was a Big event here for a number of years put on by BWL, and we decided to revive that.

So that's just one idea that we're working with.

But we have The View out in Centerfield, which is a gorgeous event center where the businesses can run out for their holiday parties, bridal showers, baby showers.

Obviously, all within reason and that kind of thing.

But we want to get our hands on more holiday-themed events.

One idea in our back pocket right now that we're trying to figure out is a haunt turning the stadium into kind of a haunted house we have like a pumpkin painting station and a movie on the big screen and all that kind of fun stuff for holiday lights tours you know around the holidays you can come through here and see the lights and we've done that in the past and it's been good not great so we got to figure out how to make it better you know but again you know if you're not failing you're not trying so if we're not doing these events and seeing what works and what doesn't work then you know we're not doing our jobs so yeah You know, anything as small as a 10-person business meeting, you know, with a donut breakfast and a projector screen with an Excel spreadsheet on it to, you know, a beer fest or chili cook-off or olive burger fest or golf or a concert.

Well, do you guys have anything else, any fundraisers that are going to be coming up that you'd like to mention while you're here?

No, other than just other events we do throughout the year, the Chili Cook-Off, we normally do any time between January to March.

And then whatever money that we have left over after our donations and scholarship, it just goes towards our next event.

So where we have left over, we'll go to the Chili Cook-Off and then it just keeps going.

Awesome.

Well, thank you guys so much for coming in and talking about your 5K today.

It's open to the public Saturday, October 17th at 1 p.m. at the Octagon Pavilion.

Second annual Chili Cook-Off.

Bring your favorite recipe.

A whole bunch of stuff going on for the kids.

We here at Leighton Broadcasting, St.

Cloud, have, I don't know if it's an annual thing, I believe pretty much once a year we do this at some point, the Chili Cook-Off.

Mm-hmm.

So there's a big competition for chili.

But here's the weird thing.

I've never heard of this before, but it's brilliant, and that is those pans that you make cupcakes in, We're supposed to bring one, and then we just put a sample of each chili in each one of those cups.

I have done a million chili cook-offs.

I've never heard of that before.

Oh, sure.

She sent me a picture of them having corn dogs from the Chili Cook-Off.

Oh, yeah?

And man, these are the real deal.

They

were there.

They were at the Chili Cook-Off, yes.

Mm-hmm.

You just did what? Tonight's episode, which launched 27 minutes ago, is a cracker.

The one, the, um, Tilling the Cook-Off.

Tilling the Cook-Off.

Campup and Cook-Off.

Campup and Cook-Off.

We

didn't introduce the winners for that, by the way.

And we'll also be doing the...

Or are we talking about that later? But we're, we'll also be doing the, the chili cook-off presentation.

Chili.

Yeah, let's talk about it now.

So the chili cook-off presentation will be happening one hour before kickoff I think we said, we either said two or one hour.

I'll, I'll, I'll confirm.

I think we probably should do one hour, but if we could do two, let's do two.

I think I made a decent case to kick some butt in every weekly fantasy league that I'm in, which is only two.