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HomeMy WebLinkAboutTimes-Advocate, 1987-08-26, Page 9Times -Advocate, August 26, 1987 Page 9 can Fest draws crowds again Despite morning weather which ap peared, at best, downright grim, the clouds parted in the early afternoon to leave the sun shining on the 22nd annual Zurich Bean Festival. Festival president Doug McBeath was grateful for the stiff wind which blew the garbage, the stall decora- tions and the inevitable wasps around, because it managed to blow away the clouds without a trace of rain. However, it did leave the visitors' appetites intact. "They ran out of coffee in the first half hour," said McBeath when describing the morning 'rush on the food lines for the pancake breakfast. "This is a perfect day." observed festival committee member Chuck Erb, but he added that the gloomy morning weather did prevent some of the participants in the car show from bringing their brightly -polished hot rods and antique automobiles to Zurich. Of the anticipated 200 cars, only about 80 actually :arrived, but McBeath promised -that the car show would become a permanent attrac- tion for the Bean- Festival. - Ile is curtain that the Festival is as winner of the Fred Harburn Trophy strong as ever and will continue to from the 56 competitors. highlight Zurich's year in the Dr. Charles Wallace was also pleas- forseeable future. ed with the entries in his annual frog "We'll be around for a number of jumping contest. The youngsters years, with the support we have, and firmly squeezed their frogs before the volunteer support (also)."placing them into the circle to en McBeath estimated the crowd to courage their hasty escape, but some number around 10,110( over the course croakers remained immune to all en- . 01 the day.couragement and refused to jurhp at "When there's no place to park a all. • car, we're over ten ( thousand)." ' The winner of the under three-inch "We'll sell out today, this year," frog class was owned by Raymond predicted McBeath, noting that Regier, followed by Brad Kramer and previous festivals have often had food Jeffrey Kramer. Jason Regier's frog lett over for sale on Sunday. won the heavyweight class with an as- McBeath maintains that the six tounding triple jump of 100.5 inches. dollar food ticket is still a good value with the Frogs of Shawn Laporte and for the money and that the efforts of Jimmy Lam not fah behind. Ilte festival committee to keep the "We really think this is going to be price constant from year to year adds an Olympic event someday," quipped frog jumping assistant Jim Gibson. "we think a Zurich area frog will win it." - The day's highlight, the crowning of the Bean Queen, offered its moment of glory to the eight young ladies vy- ing for the title. Of the girls interview- ed before the final judging, all agreed that it was not a beauty contest. They all believed that the interviews were to the festival's attraction. There were no shortages of con- testants for the various competitions offered at the festival. Gwen liar- burn. an organizerof the horseshoe pitching contest, was surprised at the large nurnber of entries for the con- test. She guessed that it would take four to five hours to finally select a the main focus of the judging. and that the contestant's perceptions of the Bean Festival were of the greatest importance Connie Desjardine won the title as this year's queen, with Kathy Merrier as first runner-up, and Gayle Dunn as second runner-up. Connie was spon- sored by the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board. . The other contestants Were Lisa Heimpel, Shelley: Hayter. Darlene Denys, Tracy Talbot and Cathy Overholt. - Even though there was no lack of - entertainment with continuous shows from Hamilton's Guse Family, the ' Vocal Agreement barbershop . quartette from Seaforth, and a children's program by • Funny Business of London, the hungry hoard. kept the lines at the food stalls busy. The beans themselves remained the main attraction. McBeath summed up the day as ',a resounding success." He was sure • that the crowds thoroughly enjoyed -the variety offered by the displays. the sales booths,. the midway. the con- tests. the ` entertainment, and. of' course, the beans. POWER TO SPARE - Joel Thomas and big brother Brent. con- templete the sharp end of_a supercharged dragster on display at the_ car show. A WILD RIDE — Andrew Geiger (left), Stephen Geiger, and Brian - Gingerich get scrambled on the Bean Festival's midway. Mrs. Cermet tweets. Phone: 236.4702 22nd Annual Bean Festival most successful yet - ()nee again our big Bean Festival is here and gone. It was a great suc- cess with lots and lots of people com- ing from everywhere! The weather was mice also. Congratulations to "Connie Desjar-- rline" who is pur 1987 Bean Queen. The arena was packed in the even- ing for the dancewith two bands sup- plying the lively music - Mozart's Melody Makers and Jasper. Quilt winners The lucky winner of the quilt from St. Peter's Parish (St. Joseph ( was Bridget .Groot, president of the St. , Boniface CWL, Zurich, and the quilt rack Went to Port Stanley. The SI. Boniface C.W.L. quill was won by Mrs. Rose (Joe) Regier. RR 2 Zurich, president of the St. Peters' CWL. 130 The ladies Monday Sep t and Matt !fa St. Peter's 1 home of h Grand Bend. tending. MI w•lers organize howling league held its organization meeting last week al the lanes, and w ill he starting to howl on :ember 14. Any ladies in- terested in going on a team are to phone Tony or Marlene Bedard at 236-4741 or 236-4923. Marriage. Congratulrtions to Elaine Westlake ney who were married at Lutheran Church on Fri- day afternoon followed by a get- together in a large outdoot tent at the er parents Keith and Margaret Westlake, with dinner and reception he Id at the Oakwood inn, On Saturday afternoon a brunch was held in their honour at her parents' home again with several friends, neig hhours and relatives at - enjoyed a delicious meal prepared by Jerry Rader. Pig roasts A good time was had by all on Sun- day at the home of Larry and Debbie Denomme-,102 2 Zurich when all their family got together, for a pig roast complete with a delicious smorgasbord supper. The children of Tony and Adeline Denomme* along with their spouses. and grand and great -grand -children were all pre- sent, along with Phil and Linda liegier and Jim and Joy Hogg. The oecasion was also to celebrate the an- niversary of George and Elaine Keller. Personals Mrs. Theresa Ilartman is present- ly visiting with relatives in Windsor and Detroit area. While there she al - tended the wedding of two grand- children, Geralyn Ilartman to Rick Smith in Windsor and Kevin Hartman to Yvette Barrette in Belle River. The parents of the two are Richard and Cecile Hartman, Windsor. Others at- tending from town and area were Mr. and Mrs. Victor Hartman, Mr. and Mrs. Ray Hartman, Mr. and Mrs. Louis Farwell, Mr. and Mrs. Jeff Dawe, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Ferguson and Jean Fleming. May we offer our sincere sympathy - to the relatives and family of the late Dan Bedard and Mrs. Marie Hess who both passed away last week. • ON FORM - Jim Cerny (left), last .year's horseshoe champion. warms up for this year's competition: Several -families in Zurich had out- of-town visitor's for the Bean festival weekend. Among them were Pauline and Andrea Ducharme of Camlachie and Sandra Preszcator and two children from Stratford, at the home of Gerald and Ila O'Rourke, Suzanne and Dave Bell from Tecumseh (Wind- sor) Wind- sor) a l her parents, Andrew and Alida Rau. • Russell Preuter and Richard Thiel. and Tom and Connie Keenan and girls of London along with Ed Keenan and Edna Wettlaufer of Kitchener visited with Vera Thiel. The family of Earl and Anne Flax - bard got together on Saturday and celebrated grand -daughter Shawn Flaxbard's third birthday. E3ean festival visitors with Howard and Birdie F inkbeiner were Harry and Mildred Damn of Waterloo, Joan Mizen and family of Goderich and Bak McGregor and Rena Caldwell of Ilensall. Dan and Carrie Eybergen and two girls of Waterloo and Bob King of Listowel visited with Jerome and Carmel Sweeney. Visitors with Rick and Shelley Hoff- man for the weekend were her parents from Detroit. - Gerald and Usula Regier had com- pany from Windsor. Linda and Bob Hendreick had com- pany from Essex and London. The Brokenshire family (Allen) had relatives visiting from Windsor. Laurene Corriveau spent last week on holidays visiting with her nieces in Toronto. Happy wedding anniversary to Ber- nie and Annette Denomme on August 26. Cliff and Delores Gingerich and family vacationed at a cottage at Chesley Lake last week along with friends. Curtis and Mary Gingerich spent a few 'days -there also_ Several from the area enjoyed go- ing 10 the C. W.L.'s 67th National Con- vention held this year at the Holiday inn, London. Ontario which began with Mass at St. Peter's Basilica on Monday night August 17. A bus load from Zurich and Blue Water went. On Tuesday August 18, going for the day were Cecelia Farwell and Diane Neilands. Wednesday delegates were Afra VanWondern and Wilma Penn- ings. Going on Thursday all day and to the banquet were Madeline Gelinas and myself (Carmel Sweeney► which was really nice. Attending from St. Peter's Parish were Sharon Durand, Ger( Durand, Rose (Joe) Regier, Theresa Regier and Mary Ducharme. Fr. Mooney and Fr. Bensette also attended the closing Mass and banquet on Thurs- day which served 900 dinners to C.W.L. members from Saskat- chewan, Quebec, Prince Edward island, Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, New Brunswick, Manitoba, British ,Columbia, Alberta and MacKenzie and Military Vicariate, with 400 delegates attending from all over Ontario,. • BAKERY.— Beth Sweeney of Zurich battles a stiff wind while sell- ing the baked goods and candies at the Tasty -Nu Bake shop. Jclen if any of our readers missed the col- umn last .week. it was because of vacation time so 1 will endeavour to bring you up to date. The sympathy of residents and staff is extended to the families of the late Miss Milverna Geiger and Mrs. Marie Hess. • The August birthday party was hosted by the ladies of Grand Bend Catholic Church. After a very en- joyable program, refreshments were served and gifts. courtesy of the Ladies Auxiliary. were presented. Residents having birthdays during the month of August are Mrs. Rose Butler. Mrs. Hazel Coward. Mrs. Mabel Glenn, Mrs. Violet Huntley. Mrs. Elizabeth Lawrence, Mrs. Margaret Snell and Mrs. Matilda Tetreau. Thanks to Mr. Marc C'halut, some • crrtpJ eo .of the residents enjoyed a bus trip on 'Thursday afternoon around the hike area. Congratulations to Mrs. Matilda '1'elrcau who will be celebrating her 102nd birthday on August 25. She at- . tended the Zurich Bean Festival on Saturday. Being this dedicated fan - that she is. she has never missed a festival. . We wish to thank all who patronized the Blue Water Rest Horne Auxiliary booth on Saturday and all who brought tickets on the quilt which was won by Mrs. Adeline Denomme. R. R. 2. Zurich. Bingo was pla}•ed on Friday even- ing. followed by refreshments. The Sunday evening chapel service was conducted by Rev. Douglas Wright of Ilensall United Church. NO GO Amanda Wilds is embarrassed by her frog which, despite all encouragemnt, would not jump for the frog jumping contest. CROWNING GLORY The finalists of the Bean Queen contest leave the stage: Gayle Dunn, second runner-up at left, Kathy Merner, first runner-up, and this year's queen, Connie Desjordine. • HAMMING IT UP Joanne Hartman and her gorilla, Bonnie Tin- dall of Funny Business, pose for the camera at the 22nd Annual Bean Festival. • IS IT REAL? A cor buff examines o Dusenberg replica of the show held at the Zurich Public School. car