Helping hands

Here’s another chance to help out our community.

NASCAR drivers, teams and owners are great to help out those less fortunate. Look at each driver’s foundation, Victory Junction, Home Depot building playgrounds, etc.

“The giving these people have in their hearts amazes me,” said Chili Wili’s owner Ron Smith.

Now this is your chance to help out our own town with the help of good cooks and NASCAR.

Victims of the Emmons Jr. Apartment fire are still putting their lives and homes back together.

On the day of the Daytona 500, Feb. 18, Chili Wili’s will host the Outlaw Chili Challenge from noon to 5 p.m. There will be 16 chili cooks taking part who have all been to the International Chili Society World Chili Championship.

One cook, Dr. Dave Mallory of Marshall University’s Biology Department (2nd in the world competition for chili verde) is participating and he’s a gearhead like the rest of us.

Dr. Mallory will have some NASCAR iems up for raffle and there will also be other theme-baskets for raffles.

Chili samples are $1 each and all the money goes to the Emmons Benefit Fund at Guaranty Bank.

If you need a place to watch Daytona and like chili, or just want to help those displaced by the fire, come out.

I’ll detail the NASCAR gear in the next few days, and let you know how the Official NASCAR Members Club Chapter 257051 in Huntington will be involved.