OCCI would like to thank Southwestern Oregon Community for the support of our culinary teams that competed in the American Culinary Federation, Oregon State Junior Hot Food Competition, held in Medford, OR at South Medford High School this past Saturday.

We would like to announce our teams finished first and third, garnering gold and silver medals respectively. Although our teams have placed first in this competition in previous years this is the first year that the gold medal has been awarded to a team in the Oregon State Competition.

Along with the gold medals, OCCI received $3000 toward costs of our trip to compete at the Western Regional Conference in April, 2008.

Thank you so much for your support. Please congratulate the following students, staff and volunteers in their accomplishments:

Gold Medal Team: Krystle Grim, David Hutchinson, Tara Pryor, Dominic Sammons, and Kelsey Terry

Silver Medal Team: Billy Ashley, Jessica Ellsworth, Ben Mattingly, Justin Smith, and Antom Strom

Alternates: Chris Dilts, Brandon Dowdy, and Elizabeth Elliot
Coaches: Shawn Hanlin and Tom Roberts

Special thanks to Karla Kaudell who volunteered many hours to help prepare the team for the competition.