Record-Eagle/Pete Rodman
Renèe Isenhart, right, laughs as her husband Jared reacts to State Street Grill's 3-alarm chili during the Downtown Chili Cookoff at the Park Place Hotel on Saturday. The family has attended the event for the last ten years, they said. Though this year they are missing three of the children due to college, they still consider it a family tradition at this point. "You bite it and don't know it, and three seconds later it's like 'whoa'," Jared Isenhart said of the 3-alarm chili.

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