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the committee that plans the event.
The Festival takes over the entire
town nowadays. All the streets are
blocked dff to accommodate crowds
estimated by Festival organizers at up
to 25,000 people. While beans and
pork continue to be the focal point of
the event, there are plenty of other
attractions. The antique and classic
car show, first added in 1987, is
expected to draw more than 800 cars
and trucks this year and is thought to
be the second largest in Ontario.
The cars begin rolling into town
on the Friday night to take part
in the Cruise Night, including
a tour of other local communities.
Friday night ends with a fireworks
display and an exhaust show with
some of the customized cars lighting
up the darkness.
All day Saturday the downtown
streets are blocked off. They'll be
lined with the booths of vendors
selling crafts and agricultural goods.
Over the years so many have sought
space a waiting list had to be started.
There's a midway, of course, as well
as a magic show, clowns and face
painting for the kids. For adults,
there's day -long entertainment
downtown.
A crowd -pleasing event in the
afternoon is Dr. Wallace's Frog
Jumping Contest. Sponsored by a
local doctor who gets right into the
act as announcer for the event, the
contest has been putting some added
jump in the Festival for more than a
decade.
It's all come a long way from the
little festival planned back on August
27, 1966. A group of public spirited
local citizens wanted to highlight the
major local crop, white beans, and
the heritage of the French Canadian
and German settlers of the area, just
inland.from Lake Huron.
The organizers were amazed when
nearly 3,000 people arrived that first
year to sample a meal of baked
beans, cold pork, coleslaw, tomatoes
and bread rolls — all for the princely
sum of one dollar. So many people
arrived the committee ran out of pork
by 6 p.m. Among those attending
was a couple from Birmingham,
Michigan who arrived in a 1923
Model T Ford.
Forty women cooked and served
the meal, which included 600 pounds
of (dry) beans.