They found that, well let’s say, amusing?!
I was wearing my University of Michigan tee shirt. I went up to each tent and introduced myself and noticed the snicker on their faces when I approached. In the contest that day were eight entries, mostly from the greater Gonzales area. After scoping out the chili tents, I resolved to visit each and every one of them, take a picture of the contestants, and put every one of the contestants in the paper. In the afternoon, I sauntered over to the square to check out the day’s activities. I checked the temperature in Michigan that day, and the high was for the low 40s. 80 degrees in December? Back in the Great White North 80 degrees in December is unheard of. 2, 2017 dawned bright and sunny with a forecasted high in the low 80s. I knew I was going to be watched with a jaundiced eye by the staff. I could smooze and do some badly-needed community public relations. The staff just shrugged as if to say, “Yeah, so what?” I thought it would be good for me to show them that a: I could write b. When I found out there was going to be a chili cookoff on the square, I jumped at the chance and announced to the newsroom that I was going to cover that part of the event.
Early on in my tenure as publisher I came to the realization that the Gonzales Inquirer needed more local news in it, and Winterfest seemed like a perfect story for us to cover. Yours truly had been in town just under a month, and I was renting a room at the Dilworth Inn. Let me take y’all back to the fateful day of Dec. It was the day I was truly indoctrinated into the Gonzales lifestyle, replete with chili, beans, beer and Santa Claus. I can’t believe a whole year has passed since last year’s Winterfest in Gonzales.
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