If you’ve participated in the past, you know what a great time it is! If this is your first time … prepare yourself for an awesome gastronomical experience! Attendance has grown exponentially over the years and cook-off contestants continue to raise the bar with their offerings in this fierce competition! Thirteen competitors are hoping to have bragging rights for a year ~ in hopes of dethroning last year’s winner, Brink & Sadler, CPA’s.

YOU ARE THE JUDGE! Everyone attending the luncheon will be provided with their own ballot to select their favorite chili.   Highest scorers will take home a first place and second place trophy!

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The show is Friday, Feb. 17 from 6 to 9:30 p.m. and Saturday, Feb. 18 from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the McGavick Event Center. The show is presented by South Sound Wedding & Event Magazine, a local resource guide for the South Puget Sound.

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“We are grateful for the Muckleshoot Tribe’s donation,” said Dr. Debbie Ranniger, Executive Director. “The money will be used to fund our emergency assistance endowment – a fund that helps students stay in school by offering critical and timely assistance.”

The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe has long understood the importance of being proactive in meeting the needs of its community. The Muckleshoot Charity Fund has placed high priority in awarding grants to organizations throughout the region that address the unique local and regional issues facing the population.

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Everyone gets to be a judge!

You can go to http://www.lakewood-chamber.com/pay_online to prepay for best price of $20!

Special thanks to Jaimie Garrett, Cobalt Mortgage and Adam's DJ Service

The original release regarding this event is below.

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Businesses or organizations that need training and education for their workers have a new resource in Pierce County. Invista Performance Solutions is the first collaboration among Pierce County colleges to serve the business community through a single point of contact.

Invista is responsible for centralized coordination of corporate education programs and services that advance businesses by increasing the skills of their workers. This partnership of colleges includes Bates Technical College, Clover Park Technical College, Pierce College District, and Tacoma Community College

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Dean Bird’s new area of responsibility includes directing the more than $2.2 million in federal and state aerospace grants recently awarded to the College. In addition to membership on several community committees dedicated to promoting the growth of the aerospace sector Dean Bird will manage the development of new grant opportunities as well as new degree and certificate programs at the college, including a possible applied baccalaureate in this field.

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“Tula is an exemplary instructor who exhibits a passion for her work while providing advocacy and support for every student,” said Lori Banaszak, Vice President for Instruction. “Tula’s enthusiasm, her commitment to student success, her sense of humor, and her genuine interest in her students all combine to ensure that students are offered an excellent educational opportunity within the courses she teaches,” added Banaszak.

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The Classical Glass Corvette Club has awarded a $3,000 gift to Clover Park Technical College Foundation. The money will be used for automotive careers scholarships.

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“The journey started nearly two years ago; it has been a very intense and rigorous endeavor,” said Hunter. “I am grateful to the incredible team at QM. Their facilitators and company employees truly believe in student success and support and I am working hard to emulate what they did for me as a student.”

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The ceremonial gold shovels will dig on Wednesday at 2 p.m. as Clover Park Technical College celebrates the groundbreaking of its new health sciences facility located at the center of campus.

Highlights of the ceremony include remarks from President Walstrum, Senator Derek Kilmer, Chair of the Senate Capital Budget Committee, Veronica Marohn, Aide to Governor Gregoire, Charlie Earl, Executive Director of the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges, and Matt Lane, Principal at McGranahan Architects.
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To be eligible for the grant, students must receive basic food assistance (food stamps) through the Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS).

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The Clover Park Technical College Board of Trustees is comprised of five community college district residents who are appointed by the governor to a five-year term. The board sets policy for the institution and delegates administrative authority to the president of the college.

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The event, on October 6, 2011 from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m., will draw 1,200 students from Clover Park, Eatonville, and Bethel School Districts. Students will participate in 36 real-world math workshops like the Puget Sound Energy Wildhorse Wind and Solar Facility, Sumo Robotics, and the City of Tacoma’s EnviroChallenger. Other participants include, The Home Depot, West Pierce Fire and Rescue, the Lakewood Police Department, Adriatic Grill, the Port of Tacoma, and more.

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"We are fortunate to have such generous institutions like Key Bank, that recognize the importance of what we do,” said Dr. Debbie Ranniger, Executive Director of Resource Development. "The need to support our students in their efforts to get quality training and education is important, especially when they can lead to good jobs.”

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Although both Wells and Inslee come from very different backgrounds, both are success-driven, environmentally-conscious leaders.

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Edmonds' community and technical college colleagues, and The Air Washington group, will join those representing government, small and large businesses, labor unions, regional councils, and other workforce and economic development-focused organizations. (more...)

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Clover Park Technical College is opening its doors a little wider on Thursday, May 12, making way for a record, 2,600+ teenagers. Students are coming from King, Pierce and Thurston Counties and the Cities of Wenatchee, Bremerton, Rochester, Winlock, Shelton, Yakima, Morton, Carbonato, and Elma.

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"For the millions of young Americans entering adulthood lacking access to marketable skills, the American dream may be an illusion, unlikely ever to come within their grasp,” says a recent Harvard study, "Pathways to Prosperity.”

This Harvard study cites what many of us already know: The path toward the middle class must include some post-secondary education. The 70,000 students attending Bates and Clover Park technical colleges and Pierce and Tacoma community colleges don’t need convincing that they need cutting-edge, applicable skills to ensure their success in attaining positions in the post-recession economy.

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Ernie Ransom, Phi Theta Kappa, Human Services program, and Benjamin Wells, Environmental Science & Technology program, have been named to the 2011 All Washington Academic Team.

Both students are excellent representatives of the College and were nominated because of their academic achievement, community service, and strong work ethic.

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John Walstrum, president of Clover Park Technical College, signs a memorandum of agreement to ceremoniously confirm the partnership between CPTC and the Clover Park School District.

By Jayme Taylor Communication Manager

The alternative learning partnership between Clover Park School District (CPSD) and Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) was publicly acknowledged as leaders from both entities signed a memorandum of agreement in a small ceremony March 22. Debbie LeBeau, superintendent of CPSD, and John Walstrum, president of CPTC—along with representatives from their institutions—celebrated the new partnership, which has been in the works for more than two years.

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Nontraditional high school becomes a reality for Clover Park School District students on the campus of Clover Park Technical College. To make it official, a signing ceremony will take place on Tuesday, March 22 at 4:00 p.m. in Building 14.

Clover Park School District (CPSD) superintendent Debbie LeBeau and Clover Park Technical College (CPTC) president John Walstrum will officially sign a memorandum of agreement detailing how alternative learning programs in the school district will operate on the college campus and how CPSD students can access CPTC career-focused programs through the college’s Northwest Career and Technical High School.

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Lakewood -- Clover Park Technical College and Tacoma Community College have received a $145,000 Hospital Employee Education and Training (HEET) grant from the State Board for Community and Technical Colleges to provide enhanced education for hospital workers in Pierce County.

The collaborative effort is being supported by MultiCare Health Systems and United Food and Commercial Workers UFCW Local 21. Funding through this grant will provide training for up to 30 employees who wish to enter a nursing career pathway.

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