Welcome Blazing Family, what a year we had!!!

If you want to keep in touch with the Blazing Salads Family, here is a contact list of the crew. (User name and password are realted to your favorite fair food!)

You can also check out the recipies, just in case you find yourself craving an Avocado Dreamboat. Just make sure you invite a hundred friends over too, these recipies are big!

I start registration for 2009 in April, so stay in touch and

Food Handlers Cards

We are a food booth and serving food that is safe is incredibly important to us. Serving it in the dusty, outdoor environment of the Country Fair makes it even more important that we are ALL diligent in knowing proper and safe food handling procedures. If you have a food handlers card in either Washington or Oregon, great, please bring it along so we can post it for the health inspector. If you don't, you need to get one before the fair!!

Luckily for you Lane County has made it incredibly easy and put the manual and the test online and it only costs $10! Blazing Salads will gladly reimburse you the cost of the test. So what are you waiting for? Set aside 20 minutes or so and learn a few things that may apply to keeping your own kitchen safe, as well as those thousands of happy fair goers who eat at Blazing Salads. You can pay online and print out your card at the end of the course on your home computer. Now how cool is that??

FOOD HANDLERS ONLINE CERTIFICATE COURSE

Registration Info

Here are some general procedures for getting registered, parked and into the fair.

DIRECTIONS TO THE FAIR

If you are arriving Wed. or Thurs. you must enter the site from Suttle Rd. You should park wherever they tell you to, and go to the registration booth out in the parking lot. Registration will be open 8am to midnight on Wed. and Thurs.

IMPORTANT !! at the registration booth you must stand in the line with the letter of the last name of your booth rep. Stand in the "A - F " line for Jill Carter.

NEW THIS YEAR!!! They have divided registration for food booth versus craft booth so make sure you are in the right line and/or you tell them that you are with a food booth, not a craft booth.

Don't forget to have picture I.D with you at registration!!!

Once you have your wrist band and a vehicle sticker on your car you can haul your stuff in. We will have our wheelbarrow for use since you will usually wait forever to get a peach cart. No one is allowed into the figure 8 from Tues. on without a pass of some sort (day or wrist band).

Parking

I have tried to get as many people as possible to carpool and we can only spread the 12 vehicle stickers we have around so far, so please coordinate with Jill if you still have room in your car.

Things to remember to bring

• John says, don't forget your flashlights, those toilets are getting pretty scary in the dark and it seems like lots of people don’t bring ‘em. The little kind like Mini-Mags that you can put on a string around your neck or the pocket LED kind are great!!
• Bring bowls, cups, utensils to eat your personal chow from so we don’t use so many paper products!!!
• Think about rain, it always seems to come in the middle of the night, so make sure you bring ground tarps and a rain fly for your tents.
• Mosquitoes are always a big issue, especially Wed, Thurs and early Fri. so bring whatever poison suits you.
• We miss the music in the back yard!! If you can make music, bring it along.
• We always need more places to sit in the back as well, if you have any portable sitting devices, bring ‘em.
• Don't forget to bring your beautiful smiles, your playful natures and fun hats.

Directions to Cori’s house

In case you want to join the caravan on Wednesday morning, come for ribs and beer on Monday night or come by and help clean up on Tuesday.

From I-5 heading south

• Get off at the OMSI, Oregon City, Morrison Bridge exit.
• Stay to the left towards OMSI and Oregon City.
• This spits you out on to Belmont street. Stay in the middle lanes.
• Head up to 20th street and take a right.
• Go about 5 blocks and take a left on Main street. Street sign is hard to see so go slow, it’s just after the big gray church.
• Head up Main, just past 24th. Cori’s house is on the left, big beautiful yellow house address 2443 Main. Jill’s Mom’s house is 2435, just next door.

From I-5 heading North

• Take the first City Center exit. It is a left side exit.
• Then watch for the “ Nato Parkway” exit, just after the highway splits, stay right.
• This should run you past expensive condos and athletic club and run you into Nato Parkway, turn right.
• Immediately look for the entrance to the Hawthorne Bridge, which is right there on the right.
• Go across the bridge and up Hawthorne all the way to 24th street.
• Turn left onto 24th. It is very narrow, watch for oncoming traffic.
• 24th only goes two blocks and runs into Main St., go right.
• Cori’s house is 4 houses up on the left, big beautiful yellow house, address 2443 Main. Jill’s Mom’s house is 2435, just next door.