Cooks around the county gear up for Fire & Ice Festival Chili Cookoff
(Talk of The Town photo by Jennifer Zartman Romano) Kelley Sheiss of Etna Troy Township and her son, Dillon, carefully select ingredients for their top secret chili recipe Wednesday afternoon at Krider's Meat Market in Columbia City. Sheiss is preparing one of ten entries in the Whitley County Council on Aging's Chili Cookoff slated for Sunday, January 27 on the Whitley County Courthouse lawn. From 11 a.m.-2 p.m., the cookoff will be open to the community in a large heated tent. Visitors will pay a $5 entrance fee to sample chili until their guts burst -- ok, actually they can sample a little bit of each chili available...no one should eat that much chili! From noon-1:30 p.m., visitors may vote for their favorite recipe and a People's Choice award will be given. Additional prizes will be awarded at 3 p.m. All proceeds raised from the chili cookoff will support the Senior Center building project.