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_ DELIVERING THE NEWS

Steps:

• * A call to a Wyoming finalist was answered by her husband-who was on top of the telephone pole, fixing their line. He told Pillsbury that his wife "couldn't come to the phone, because she was at the bottom of the pole."* One contestant was traveling around the country in an RV with no itinerary and no plans to contact her family for several weeks. Pillsbury enlisted the help of the highway patrols, forest rangers and park officials from several states to let this contestant know the good news.* After a few days of trying to notify a San Jacinto contestant, Pillsbury became concerned. Calls to the Chamber of Commerce and other city offices didn't provide any clues, but the local newspaper yielded a reporter that personally knew the contestant. That led Pillsbury to one of the contestant's neighbors, who said that the contestant was visiting her family in another part of the state. Much of San Jacinto knew about the contestant's good luck before she did!From "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Steps:

• * Arriving at her bank to make a deposit, one contestant found, strangely, that her husband was on the phone. He told her to call Pillsbury immediately, and she did, from the bank lobby. Her shrieks of joy resounded through the bank lobby, and she promised to bring her winning dish in for the tellers to taste.* One contestant without a phone luckily "had her ears on" and learned the good news via a citizens-band message broadcast by her town's postmistress.* A severe blizzard enveloped one contestant's town during notification and the contestant's phone was out. Pillsbury contacted another finalist who lived in the same town she was so excited that she drove across town in the storm and scaled a snowdrift to deliver the news.From "Pillsbury Best of the Bake-Off® Cookbook." Copyright 2004 General Mills. Used with permission of the publisher, Wiley Publishing, Inc. All Rights Reserved.