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PRESIDENTS MESSAGE FROM TONY PARKER
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WSCA President
Tony Parker CEC, ACE
November/December 2014
Recruiting and Advertising Video
We are moving forward with creating a video representing our chapter. The first step will be the filming of the Competition in Bellingham in January. The process to complete the video will take most of the year filming events, dinners, competitions, Chef and Child and Special Olympics. When finished we will have a great representation of our chapter to use for recruiting and advertising. If there are ACF events that you think we should be filming, please send me an email or give me a call.
Annual Elections Results
Our annual elections were held at the November dinner. The results are 3 board members voted in and one appointed. Brandon LaVielle, Michael Baldwin and Tamas Ronyai were voted for two year terms. Charles Ramsayer was appointed to fill a one year term on the board. Dan Lewark was re-elected as vice president for another two years and Jeff Pratt was re-elected for two years as our treasurer. Congratulations to all and a very large thank you for your time and effort out of your busy lives to do this.
Holiday Dinner & Auction Follow-up
Our Holiday dinner at the SeaTac Marriott property was very exciting and different. Those that attended experienced a delightful stroll through the chef's kitchen sampling different cuisines uniquely displayed and served. I for one have never seen a kitchen used in this manner. The walk in cooler with the sushi bar was great. The dinner served buffet style with different stations was excellent and well received. Chef James did a fantastic job and went that extra mile to make the experience very memorable. Our thanks to the chef and his crew for all the hard work they did.
The silent auction to benefit the apprenticeship was a large success netting approximately 3,000.00 dollars. Jamie Callison brought his book, "The Crimson Spoon" and sold out. He donated all the revenue to the apprenticeship. I would like to thank Jamie for all of his support that he continues to give to the chapter and the apprenticeship. I would also like to thank all the individuals and companies that made donations for the auction. Without those donations the auction would not have been a success.
Coming Events
- Our next meeting in January will be a board meeting following the Ice Carving 101 seminar at Rainier Golf and Country Club on Saturday the 17th at 2pm.
- Our Presidents dinner will be held at Cedar Brook Lodge, 18525 36th Ave South SeaTac, on February 9th. It promises to be a great dinner.
- We have a new workshop, the Molecular Workshop by the John Koerner Company on Feb. 28th at Renton Technical College Cafeteria.
- Our March board meeting will be held at Bates downtown campus.
- Our April dinner will be the Bite of Apprenticeship at RTC.
- Our May board meeting will be at Le Cordon Bleu in Tukwila.
- The Culinary Salon Competition will be held May 16 & 17, 2015 at Bellingham Technical College.
- Our June meeting is TBD.
I would like to wish all of you happy holidays from my family to all of yours. This is the time of the year when everyone is running at 100 miles per hour to take care of all your work and still try to plan some family time. My hope is that all of you will take some time to slow down and enjoy what is most important, family and friends during this holiday season. A friend of mine gave me some good advice the other day, "you can't fix yesterday, all you can do is work on today and tomorrow."
Join us on WE ARE CHEFS and FACEBOOK
Tony Parker CEC, ACE
"Don't sweat the little stuff, it will all work out in the end"
Washington State Chefs Association Website
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JANUARY 2015 BOARD MEETING
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Date:
January 17th, 2014
Location:
Rainier Golf and Country Club
Times:
2pm
Immediately Following the Ice Carving Seminar
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2015 ICE CARVING 101
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Time:
9:30am - 1:30pm
Location:
Rainier Golf and Country Club
Benefiting:
Professional Culinarians
Student Culinarians
This educational seminar is available to Professional Chefs and Student Culinarians. This is a hands on approach to ice carving. Attendees will have the opportunity to use various equipment to grind, chisel and cut ice during this workshop.
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MOLECULAR WORKSHOP
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Date:
February 28th, 2015
Time:
8:30am - 12:30pm
Location:
Renton Technical College Cafeteria
Benefiting:
Professional Culinarians
Student Culinarians
This educational seminar is available to Professional Chefs and Student Culinarians. This is a hands on approach to Molecular Gastronomy. Attendees will have the opportunity to use various ingredients, tools and techniques in molecular work.
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MEMBER NEWS!
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Welcome New Members!
Betsy Sheer
James Canby
Anthony Loubon
Cassie Heaton
Dave Johnson
Rafael Rivera
Bradley Dennis
Looking for a job, staff or business opportunity?
We receive new job openings and resumes all the time.
Members can post their resumes or job openings for free. We also have culinary related classified ads which are free for members to post.
2013 Member Spotlight
FEBRUARY - JENNIFER SOHONIE
2012 Member Spotlight
OCTOBER - MATTHEW DIMEO
JUNE - CHRIS BOWENS
MAY - JEFF PRATT
APRIL - RICH HILL
MARCH - HILDE KORSMO
2011 Member Spotlight
JANUARY - KRISTA NAKUMURA
FEBRUARY - KARL HUTTER
MARCH - LINDA STRONG
JUNE - BRUCE BONHOLZER
AUGUST - JEFF DUNCAN
SEPTEMBER - DENISE FARKAS
OCTOBER - STEVEN SCHRADER
NOVEMBER - MICHAEL BALDWIN
DECEMBER - TONY SUMPTER
2010 Member Spotlight
JANUARY - TAMAS RONYAIFEBRUARY - STEFANIE BRANICAAPRIL - JANET SHAFFER CWPCMAY - DAN LEWARK, CEC ACEJUNE - ROB NATHEJULY - SHARLENE GREENDYKSEPTEMBER - KEVIN BLAYLOCKOCTOBER - CHRIS PLEMMONS
NOVEMBER - WALTER BRONOWITZ
DECEMBER - HOLLI YU
2009 Member Spotlight JUNE - NANCY BEAUCHAMPSEPTEMBER - JOSH SCHIESSLOCTOBER - MARK LINDEN CEC AACNOVEMBER - TONY PARKER CECDECEMBER - JOHN FISHER CEC, CCE, AAC
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STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS
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Are you a culinary student? Looking for some green?
Our local American Academy of Chefs and our ACF Washington State Chapter student scholarship applications are available online. To find out when our next scholarship will be awarded and the application due dates please visit the scholarships page on our website for details.
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Please feel free to contact me at any time if you have ideas for the association.
Sincerely,
Tony Parker
Washington State Chefs Association
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UPCOMING EVENTS
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2014
January 10th, 2015
WSCA Student Competition
Bellingham Technical College
8am-2pm
Competing Schools: Bellingham Technical College, Le Cordon Bleu College, Seattle, Wine Country Culinary
January 17th, 2015
Ice Carving 101
Click for details
January 17th, 2015
Immediately following the Ice Carving Event
2pm
February 9th, 2015
Presidents Awards Dinner
Cedar Brook Lodge
SeaTac, WA
February 28th, 2015
Molecular Workshop
By John Koerner Company
Renton Technical College
March 9th, 2015
March Board Meeting
Bates Technical College
Downtown Campus
April 2015
Bite of Apprentice
Renton Technical College
May 11th, 2015
May Board Meeting
Le Cordon Bleu
Tukwila, WA
May 16th & 17th, 2015
Culinary Salon Competition
Bellingham Technical College
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Press Releases
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We added a new page for WSCA Press Releases with information on important news and events within the Washington State Chefs Association.
Click here to view the Press Release page
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2014 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
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Tony Parker CEC ACE
VICE-PRESIDENT
Dan Lewark CEC CCA
TREASURER
Jeff Pratt
SECRETARY
Janet Shaffer CWPC
CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD
Mark Linden CEC AAC
BOARD MEMBERS
Gary Fuller CEC CCE AAC
Jeff Pratt
Steven Schrader CCA
Kevin Blaylock CEC, CSCE, CCA
Michael Baldwin CEC CCE
Lori Taylor
Jeffrey Duncan
Tamas Ronyai
TRUSTEES
Jim H. Douglas CEC CCE AAC
Walter Bronowitz
CCC CEC AAC
John Fisher CEC CCE AAC
Chris Plemmons CEC AAC
Karl Hutter
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