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Zurich Citizens News, 1980-08-28, Page 1• • Festival kee In what has become an accepted norm, the Zurich Bean Festival once again proved to be a highly suc- cessful event with around 15,000 people jamming the community for the fifteenth annual celebration 'of the white bean. Under ideal conditions of warm, sunny weather combined with a light breeze, patrons of the valuable cash crop from across Ontario gathered in the community to enjoy a meal of beans, coleslaw and ham and to take in the carnival -like atmosphere. Publicity chairman Glen Thiel said the crowd was in keeping with past bean festivals and said the festival committee was very pleased the way things turned out. The day got off to a bright and early start for members of the Zurich Minor *Athletic Association as they served up hundreds of pancakes to the early festival goers. The day began in earnest at around 11 a.m. when the first of almost' 7,000 bean dinners were served up. Thiel said they had about the usual amount of beans and ham Deft over but came very close to running out of coleslaw. One of the highlights of the day was the crowning of this. year's bean queen ld Christina 1 n of RRS 2, Zurich who represented Oesch's Shore Store. First runnerup for. the title was this year's Miss Friedsburg, Debbie Taylor of Exeter while Michelle Regier of RR 2, Zurich was second runnerup.' Other contestants taking part were Theresa Dietrich of Zurich, Kim Bedard of RR 2, Zurich and Julie Ingram of Hensall. Judges for the contest were Andre Beauregard, director of publicity and promotion for 20th Century Fox of Canada, Brent Scrimshaw of Molsons' Breweries and , Joan Wakeling of Port Stanley. One of the more popular areas to be at, the bean festival was near the stage set at the corner of Mill and Goshen streets. Entertaining at the stage was a magician and Tom Destry and his band. Meanwhile in the area between .the stage and post office, things were hopping along in the annual frog jumping contest sponsored by Doctor • Charles Wallace. .)A total of 25 frogs were entered with Danny Thiel's amphibian taking top spot for frogs under three inches in length. Frogs entered by Paul Dickert and Peter Overholt finished second and third. Peter Jacob's ends_ for hoppers grit than" -thee' inches in length took first place followed by frogs managed by Trevor Lan- sbergen and David Thiel.' Brad Oke headed forSaudia Arabia While most of us only dream of far-off places, a former resident of Zurich 1 a country half way around the world in September. , Brad Oke, son of Mr. and Mrs. Don. .Oke will be heading for Jeddalh, Saudi Arabia at the end of Sep- tember. Oke who has bees em- ployed at the London operations of Bell Canada will be one of 600 Bell per- sonnel ,involved in the modernization of the Saudi telephone system. Oke who is married to the former Janice Hayter of Dashwood will be working in Arabia for a one year period. "I'm really excited about going over," stated Oke who has been with Bell's engineering department for two years. ZURICH FARMER CONVICTED. The first conviction in Southwestern Ontario, for polluting a 'stream by a farmer has been obtained by the Ontario environment ministry's London region office. John Jacobs, RR 1, Zurich wai fined =300 in provincial court inGoderich Friday -for dumping pig manure into a water , course in Hay Township on February 8, a. violates of a section of the Ontario' Water Resources Commission Act. Jacobs pleaded guilty. • Fred Durham, manager of • industrial abatement for the region, said Jacobs pumped manure from a tank to the ground and the manure flowed into a municipal drain. Two London -area men have also been jointly charged with discharging manure into a London Township water course April 17 and are to appear in . London provincial court October 16, and Richard Moffit of Brooke Township in Lambton County has been charged with twocounts of the OWRC section. in the Ontario. doubles horseshoe pitching cham- pionship held at the com- munity park ball diamond Zurich's Richard Scihilbe and his partner from Tillsonburg placed second in the B The festival concluded Saturday when 700 people, packed the arena for. the bean festival dance. President of this year's rowin event was Birdie Flnkbeiner With Mary Haggitt acting a• secretary and Nancy Lee as treasurer. 'Al Scott was first vice- president and Chuck Erb - was second vice-president. Glen Thiel headed the publicity department, Betty Kirk was food convener and Grant Lee looked after the concessions. . Eveni the hat doesn't fit,wur it RKET tE S — You have to give a lot of credit to the Ontario Bean Producers Marketing Board; they get Illmra!mbers g and'"young. Trying on some marketing board hats were nine week old twins Kristen and Siobhann, daughters of Martin and Jean Smyth of Richmond Hill. Mrs. Smyth is the daughter of Ellen Batstone of urich. Stuff photo Hits light standard Car jumps gear, driver injured For the second time this summer, the Exeter OPP have investigated an ac- cident in which a driver was struck by his/her own car. The latest incident oc- curred on Friday when Audrey McIntosh, Zurich, sustained minor injuries when her car reversed after being parked on Goshen Street north of Highway 84 ih Zurich and knocked her to the pavement as she was walking behind it. The vehicle continued on and struck a light standard. Constable Bob Whiteford investigated and set damage at 6200. Earlier this summer, a Hensall man sustained a broken leg when he was run over by his vehicle which slipped into gear and tolled backward. The first of the week's accidents. occurred on Monday when a vehicle driven by Eugene King, RR 1 Exeter, struck a tree after it left a concession road west of Highway 81 in Stephen Township. The driver sustained minor injuries in the ac- cident investigated by Constable Jack Straughan. On Tuesday, a vehicle driven by Donald McGee, Goderich, went out of control on Highway 4 south of the Crediton Read in heavy fog. It struck a culvert in the ditch and damage was set at $1,000 by Constable Whiteford. The driver suffered minor injuries. There was .one accident investigated by Constable Whiteford on Saturday, it occurring on a private laneway east of concession 6- 7 of - Stephen. A vehicle driven by David Cooper, Exeter, went out of control and struck a parked vehicle owned by Peter Heath, Huron Park. Total damage was listed at $1,400. The final accident was investigated on Sunday when a vehicle driven by Daniel Galloway, RR 1 Crediton, veered into a ditch and struck a hydro pole on sideroad 5, east of con- cession 6-7 of Stephen. The driver had minor injuries but no report of damage was available at press time. Constable Straughan investigated. More charges laid in fraud case Former Bayfield village councillor Milton Van Patter was remanded to September 29 on Monday when he ap- peared in Goderich provincial court facing 10 charges of fraud involving about =70,000. Van Patter, 52, a real estate agent, resigned from council a week before his arrest on three fraud charges totalling $30,000. By his court appearance Monday, another seven charges had been added. His lawyer, W.J. MacEwan Egener of Goderich, estimated the total amount involved in the charges at $70,000. His arrest followed three weeks of investigations by Det. -Sgt. D.A. Ormsby of the OPP aniti-rackets squad in Toronto. t 1