Best Chili in Cook Off - Joanne Farley & Sue Glover, the Chuck Wagon Chix, from Austin & Marble Falls, won 1st Place in Chili at Hurricane Junction’s 5th Annual Gumbo & Chili Cook off benefiting the POC Library.

The 5th Annual Gumbo/Chili Cookoff was held on the grounds of Hurricane Junction on October 26. Thanks to the efforts of all the talented cooks, the judges, and those who came to taste and to bid on auction items, the Port O’Connor Library Fund has grown by $3,800.

Special thanks go to Jim Hooper, proprietor of Hurricane Junction, who has for the past five years organized this cookoff and given the proceeds to our library. It is members of our community like Hoop who make such a difference in funding of our organizations.

Winners of the Chili Cookoff:

1st Place        Chuck Wagon Chix (Joanne Farley, Sue Glover, and Nicole Collins)

2nd Place    Swamp Gas Cookers (Lynn and Lorie Turner)

3rd Place    Coastal Bend Charters (Ann Margaret Fowler, Kimberly Fowler, and Capt. Matt Jensen

Winners of the Gumbo Cookoff:

1st Place        Kim and John Jones

2nd Place    Cavallo Cookers, Chef Peyton Martin

3rd Place &    Sandy Bottoms (Marie Richter, Leah Griffin, Mary Showmanship    Nell McGee, Holly and Drake Dyes)

Thanks to the esteemed judges of the event: Nancy Pomykal, John Hridek, Donnie Head, Teresa Bolding, Jane Lane and Eddy Voss.

John & Kim Jones 1st Place Gumbo

3rd Place Gumbo & Showmanship Drake Dyes, Holly Dyes, Marie Richter, Leah Griffin, Mary Nell McGee,

Cavallo Cookers, Peyton Martin 2nd Place Gumbo

3rd place Chili with Hoop

Ginnie Lichac, President of Friends of the Port O’Connor Library, and husband Jerry