Zurich Citizens News, 1981-07-23, Page 6Page 4
Citizens News July 23, 1981
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By
ROB CHESTER
I think cloning should be encouraged — if only
for newspaper editors.
Cloning, is the prdcess whereby a small sample
of a person's tissue, say a fingernail, is chemically
grown into a full sized replica of the donor.
The result is instant twins and if done enough , I
could manage to be in all of the places I have to be,
all at the same time.
The 117th annual Zurich fair is over, and at one
point on Saturday afternoon I felt it was a three
ring circus I'd mistakenly stumbled into. All the
events seemed to be going on at once.
The parade was delayed for some reason, and
as a result, compressed the rest of the day's ac-
tivities into a tight timetable.
In fact... tight is probably the understatement
of the year, with the baby show, wristwrestling, cat-
tle judging...
The heartbreaking aspect of the day was the
hour-long break before the western horse show was
to start.
After all those events during the day, most of
which I and• many other fair goers missed, there
was then a full hour with nothing to .do.
As it was, myself and about eight others, in-
cluding the show judges were at the north of the ball
diamond at 6 p.m. promptly to watch the show.
As the sky grew darker, the hour passed, with the
crowds not growing any and the show not starting.
Most of what crowd there was left at about 6:40
when the rain started.
I'm told the show started about 7:30, the rain a
welcome addition to keep the heat and the dust at
tolerable levels.
One of the most attractive aspects of a small
town agricultural fair is the community invlove-
ment in the myriad of competition categories.
I suggest the fair organizers institute a class for
exhibits in cloning. They could offer prizes to the
community scientist who has been experimenting
with this useful technology and has been left out of
the past 117 fairs.
Either that or polish up _their scheduling for
harried newspaper photograpahers and spectators
who want to attend the fair and see more than one
event.
With the 117th . fair over, and the 125th
celebrations history, the youngster on the block, the
Zurich Bean Festival, is gearing up.for its 16th shot
at fame and fortune.
A London Free Press- reporter estimated the
fair parade crowd at about 800. With that many and
the village looking virtually empty, the crowds at
the 125th anniversary parade could be estimated at
about 6.000. (Thanks Tony) .
It makes one wonder what a crowd of over 15,-
000 will look like. If past tends are up held, last
years bean festival attendance mark will be exceed-
ed.
I must admit I had heard of the bean festival
before I began work in the area, but I never
suspected the sophistication of the celebration.
Who ever though of the festival, honoring those
little hard white . things, or even their cooked
counterparts, was probably laughed at loudly until
the first festival stifled the chuckles with its
su ccecc
Children's verses and the famous Blazing
Saddles scene notwithstanding, the bean isn't the
most serious of vegetables.
It has often been (no pun intended) said that he
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who laughs last, laughs loudest. I suspect it will be
the community of Zurich which laughs last.
It is easy to reduce events to economic terms,
but it is in the area of community spirit and com-
munity betterment that Zurich profits from its
many festivals.
Zurich has always been on the map, it just took
the white been...er...ah bean to make it a little
clearer.
The post officehas only been on strike about four
weeks but already it seems so natural not to be
receiving mail.
It isn't natural to correspond with relatives far
away, and who needs the food a government check
would buy? We've got too many mail order
businesses, and most of them should be closed
anyway.
I really don't want those magazine subscriptions I
paid good money for, or the stamps I bought before
the strike and will have to buy more of to increase
to the new rate when the strike is over.
Let the postal workers stay on strike and let
whoever has to, go out of business. After all we can
just add them all to the welfare rollsand mail them
their checks.
How does
fitness start here?
Physical fitness begins with a
mental act.
Let's say that when it comes to
fitness you're full of the best
intentions. But somehow you've
always hung back on the side-
lines, never quite managing to
take action. How do you get
yourself going?
The trick is to roll "all your
good intentions up into one con-
crete decision. That simple act
of deciding can be the deed
that switches the lights from red
to green—that switches you from
stop to go.
Can making a decision give
your fitness a head start?
AND HOW!
The Canadian movement
for personal fitness.
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