 The United Way of Crow Wing and Southern Cass County has held its annual chili cook-off today at the Brainerd Westgate Mall this year's theme, which Chili Olympics and featured Olympic gold medalist from the 1980 Miracle on Ice team, Phil Verkota. Now, businesses, organizations and nonprofits from all over the Brainerd Lakes area faced off in a chili cooking competition. All to the benefit, all to benefit the United Way and its mission of helping others in the community. Yeah, so the annual chili cook-off, this year we moved it to January and the reason is so that we are celebrating our annual fall fundraising campaign and so every year, September through December, we are out in the community raising money for the work that we do and we thought that this is the perfect way to come together as a community and celebrate that. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News, please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.