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Wednesday, April 29, 2009
Fostorian gets a taste of luck at cooking showManaging Editor
When Connie Reiter's sister asked her to go to the Taste of Home Cooking Show, she never imagined she would walk out of the event the grand prize winner.
But that's pretty much the way Reiter's day began and ended Tuesday.
Invited by her sister, Jeanine Brickner of the Bascom area, Reiter and her other sister, Sue Holman of New Riegel, decided to attend the live cooking show and make it a girls' night out.
The trio joined hundreds of others at Fostoria High School's Performing Arts Center for the event sponsored by the Review Times and Great Scot Community Markets.
Throughout the evening, more than 42 prizes were distributed as WFIN radio personality Kelly Greene drew names from a basket of registration cards handed in by audience members hoping to go home winners.
Prizes ranged from bags of groceries to cookbooks to the very dishes being prepared on stage.
But the grand prize, a brand-new flattop cooking range, provided by Fostoria Appliance Center went to Reiter.
“We'd have been happy with a bag of groceries,” Reiter said.
Greene drew the winning registration card early in the evening and placed it on ice -- inside the on-stage refrigerator -- for safekeeping.
At the end of the evening the cool card was plucked from the fridge.
“Our winner is from Fostoria,” Green announced to an awaiting crowd.
“And she lives on Lincoln Avenue,” Green continued, taunting the audience before finally announcing the name of the evening's big winner.
“When she said 'Lincoln Avenue,' we all looked at each other and went, like, Ahhh!” Reiter said, describing the moment she and her sisters realized whose name was going to be announced.
After more cards were drawn, names announced, door prizes distributed and the evening came to a close, audience members quickly made their way out of the PAC. Reiter and her sisters then slowly made their way to the front of the auditorium where Reiter stepped on stage and got a closer look at her prize.
“Do you need a new stove?” Cheryl Cohen, culinary specialist, asked Reiter as they prepared to pose for photographs next to the flat-top electric range.
“No, but, actually, my son is just buying a house,” Reiter said, explaining her 22-year-old son Brad would become the likely recipient of the new appliance.
But Reiter was quick to assure the evening's hostess she is not missing out when it comes to appliances.
“I bought one just like it a year ago,” Reiter said.
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