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Citizens News August 21, 1980
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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.
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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
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