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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1980-08-21, Page 4Page 4 Citizens News August 21, 1980 photo by Terry Schwartzentruber Readyforharvest ununiunnnnnnnnunnnnnnnnnniimumKmnuunuunmu1Nnuuuuu1iuiimuuuiuuMumunumfmmnunnnnlmmmn�IImm11unnuun1Huunu: IViewpointzC.N. .. chnunuunnnnuumummommoimunsusommmuuuuuummiamiumu ommuumiiiuii miiiiimmi nmuumummnunnun mummimmuunnnnnmii Welcome to the Bean Festival For the fifteenth straight year, the picnic tables are being moved, the roads have been swept clean, the refrigerators -cum cookers have been cleaned out and the many hours of labour for local citizens has come to fruition; bring on the bean festival! If there is one thing that an outsider notices about this community, it has to be the spirit of togetherness and the sense of caring which each in- dividual has about this community. There are few places of Zurich's size where you'll find an attractive and clean downtown core, paved streets throughout 95 percent of the village, active social and church organizations and a real rarity for a village, a chamber of commerce. It just follows through that when all of the com- munity puts its collective heads together as it does for the bean festival, it's bound to be a success. One item that the bean festival can alway use is volunteers on the day of the event and if you would like to contribute some labour to the event, drop around by the festival kitchens and nine chances out of ten they'll be able to put you to work. Published Each Wednesday t3y J.W. Eedy Publications Ltd. Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association • Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association News Editor - Tom Creech • Noond Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Subscription Rates: $8.50 per year in advance in Canada 519.50 per year outside Canada Single copies 25t $11111.111114./101111111111/1111111111111111111111111111►111111N111/NN111111111N _ NII Misca1Ianeous Rumblings By TOM CREECH That time of year This column marks the 15th anniversary of the Zurich Bean Festival and the third year which this writer has covered this event which represents one of the primary sources of income for the farming com- munity in Huron County. Over the years, the Bean Festival has continued to evolve in a slow but sure fashion and the same can be said for the news coverage of this event which celebrates the proud heritage of the white bean. When this writer first happened upon the "bean scene" in 1978 it seemed like a good idea to follow the accepted methods of putting together a special bean festival edition of the Citizens' News. Many a newspaper person will tell you its better to be conservative when you're in unfamiliar territory. The following year the writer got a bit more bold and came up with a few new tricks for this edition of the Citizens' News which has no parallel among newspapers of its size in Ontario. This year. once again, we've broken new ground with an in-depth study of the research into white beans which is being carried on at the Centralia College of Agricultural Technology and a special tear -out supple- ment on all the bean recipes which one could ever need. We've had a great time putting the special edition together both in terms of the special news copy that has been assembled and the manyadvertisersw homwe have dealth with. As like most events the bean festival is what you make of it. Stealing a line from the great amphletof publicity chairman Glen Thiel "Come early, stay late and have fun." That one line pretty well sums up the bean festival and don't forget that the bean festival is of great benefit to this community. So if you enjoy the rural way of life have as many beans as you can eat; you wouldn't find any finer. Every once in a while you come across an article in another newspaper which is so good the damn thing has to be reprinted in its entirety for it to have the proper effect. In the case of the following article which appeared in a recent Sunday edition of the Detroit Free Press, the writer broke out into a fit of hysterical laughter which could only be controlled by watching a rerun of the Mary Tyler Moore Show. If the article causes the same reaction in you as it did in me, the writer suggests that a better remedy would be watching Bob Denver making a fool out of himself for "the umpteenth time" in Gilligans' Island. "Cuddle your rabbit and save him from a heart at- tack. That is one lesson of recent research at Ohio State University, where scientists found than"tender loving care" seemed to protect rabbits on a high-fat diet against clogging of the arteries. But Dr. Robert Nerem, who headed the experi- ment, says it also suggests that love and attention may affect hormone levels In the rabbit that help it to withstand heart disease. That may help us understand how stress, or the lack of it, affects human health, he says. Nerem. a bioengineer formerly with the space program, and two colleagues discovered the effect ac- cidentally when they noticed that some rabbits on a high -cholesterol diet failed to develop fat buildups on the aorta that are usually caused by this diet. "We thought the person who was handling the animals, Dr. (Murina) Levesque, might have treated some of them differently because she's fond of animals," says Dr. Nerem. Two new experiments were devised in which Dr. Levesque petted some of the rabbits. -I'd visit them four or five times a day just to say hello and cuddle," she recalls. After six weeks, the petted bunnies had less heart disease than a control group of animals given normal care, even though both had elevated cholesterol in their bloodstreams. The experiments are continuing at the University of Houston. where Dr. Nerem has become chairman of mechanical engineering, to see whether petting raises the level of a hormone called corticosterone, which may be involved in fat deposition in the arteries. In the meantime, Dr. Nerem says, the experiment Please turn to page 5