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Page 16 Citizens News August 20, 1981
Highlights of the Zurich Bean Festival
Continued from page 15
on in spite of all the rain,The
largest crowd ever attended
the dance that night, to the
music of the Molly McGuires
and the Harbourlites.
August 28, 1976 - eleventh
Bean Festival
About 7,000 plates of beans
were served. The . : ncake
breakfast was popular, too.
Hungry early risers ate 200
pounds of sausages with
them. Four streets, closed to
form a mall for concessions,
were crowded from early
morning till late at night.
Proceeds from the festival
went into a fund for arena
repairs.
There was a pie -eating
contest and a frog -jumping
contest. Elmer Hohl, world
champion horseshoe pitcher,
carried off the honours
again, though 'he had stiff
competition from a young
Kitchener boy.
This was also the year of
the bean cart. The rubber
wheeled cart with two trays,
made to order by Bendix,
10
Hurrying for a big plate of beans
ended for volunteers 10 years
of dodging through the crowd
with hot roasting pans of
beans. Now visitors had to
dodge the cart, but got their
dinners faster.
August 1977 - twelfth Bean
Festival
There seems to be no limit
to the success of the event as
over 15,000 people jammed
into the village to take in the
twelfth annual festival.
Needless to say, the
visitors had a big appetite as
they consumed two tons of
beans, 200 pounds of
sausages, 40 crates of
chopped cabbage and 1,000
homemade pies.
The _1977 Bean Queen was
Tammy Baker of Hensall
with Deb Creces and Pam
O'Brien in the runnerup
positions.
In the frog jumping
competition Dereck
McKinnon's entry took the
contest with a leap of 53
inches.
Winning in the horseshoe
pitching competition were
Elmer Hohl of Wellsley and
Alex Boa of Goderich.
August 24, 1978 - thirteenth
Bean Festival
Under ideal conditions
between 17,000 and 18,000
people crowded the streets of
the community.
The pancake and sausage
breakfast was a big success
with 600 plates of the mor-
ning fair being sold by 10:30.
Taking the position as
queen of the Bean Festival
was Carol Fisher of Zurich.
First runner-up was Cathy
Mc Cann.
Providing entertainment
were several .rocaT acts and
Earland Martha Heywood of
CKNX TV Barn Dance fame.
Having the top frogs in the
jumping contest were Rick
Green and Allan Oesch.
Taking the top spot in the
horseshoe pitching cham-
pionships were the duo of
Steve Hohl and John
Watkinson.
Auguste, 1979 -fourteenth
Bean festival -
Between 15,000 and 18,000
jammed the community for
the 14th annual celebration
of the white bean, under cool
and slightly overcast
weather. Crowned queen of_
the festival was 18 year old
Carol Ross of Exeter.
Runner-up was April Gun-
ness of Parkhill. Taking the
horseshoes pitching .cham-
pionship was the team of
Doug Kyle of Hensall and
Bill Spielmacher of Hanover.
August 23, 1980 -fifteenth
Bean Festival.
An estimated 15,000 people
visited Zurich to celebrate
the white bean. Before the
day was out over 7,000 bean
dinners had been served.
Christina Millson, 17 of RR
2, Zurich was -crowned bean
queen. A record 25
amphibians were rounded up
for the frog jumping com-
petition. In the under three
inch class a frog owned by
Danny Thiel took first. Over
three inches class was taken
by Peter Jacobs' entry. The
frogs were .unavailable for
comment. Crowds gathered
throughout the day for enter-
tainment presented at the
stage at the corner of Mill
and Goshen. Zurich native
Richard Schilbe and a
Tillsonberg partner, placed
second in the B flight of the
horseshoe pitching contest.
About 700 people concluded
the festival at the Saturday
night dance.
Playhouse honors
Exeter volunteer
In keeping with the tenth
birthday celebrations at
Huron Country Playhouse, a
ten year supporter was
honoured Wednesday even-
ing.
Playhouse aritistic direc-
tor Aileen Taylor -Smith call-
ed Benson Tuckey of Exeter
on to the stage before the
opening of Nurse Jane Goes
NAME BEAN QUEEN — Christina Millson,
R.R. 2 Zurich, representing Oesch's Shoe Store was named 1980 Zurich Bean
Festival Queen. From the left are first runnerup Debbie Taylor, Exeter; Christina Millson; 1979 Queen Carol Ross and second
runnerup Michelle Regier. Staff photo
Hungry visitors at the 1980 Bean Festival
Benson Tuckey
to Hawaii. She said that
Tuckey had been a supporter
of the playhouse for 10
years, and they wanted to
ihonour him for all his work.
Tuckey recalled the early
days of the playhouse, when
"we had a tent on a manure
pile over there," he said. He
said it was hard to sit on
chairs in those days, "the
front legs would go down;
then the back legs would go
down."
Tuckey said he was work-
ing with the playhouseduring
the early years in the tent,
and ,the board had elaborate
plans to reconstruct the barn
as a theatre.
He said that the plans in-
cluded doing away with the
posts that supported the
roof. But he added that
David Conklin was on the
board then, and, _warned
them that the barn would
' collapse. Eventually they
discarded the plans for the
barn reconstruction, and
decided to build the new
• theatre.
Tuckey said that he had
been tearing down old barns,
and •brought -timbers to the
playhouse and covered the
parking lot. "The builder
then selected the good
timbers," for use in -the new
theatre, Tuckey said.
Tuckey was presented
with a boutonniere and his
wife was given a corsage.
Tuckey was the founder of
Guenther Tuckey Transport
and Tuckey Beverages. He
has been on the playhouse
board since its beginning.
REQUIRE SOME ROOMS
Canadians with room in
their homes -and room in
their hearts --to welcome
strangers are being invited
to join a world Travel
Registry.
Because hotel costs have
risen so drastically and
because so many Americans
and people from other
countries enjoy vacationing
in Canada, there is a real
need for people to open their.
homes -and their hearts --to
travelers, states Mrs. Robert
Donaldson of Columbus
Ohio.
In Ohio so many people
love to visit Canada at every
time of the year -but rising
costs are making it harder
and harder for families to
travel. They want and need
good clean rooms --with . of
without meals -at reasonable
prices, she said.
Accommodations are
needed in urban and rural
areas in all price levels.
Sometimes people ask for
apartments and even houses.
Anyone interested in
registering is asked to
contact Mrs. Donaldson at
464 Powder Mill Lane,
Columbus , Ohio, 43228.
Please enclose $1.00 for
postage. Registry fees are
$10.00 a year.
Mrs. Donaldson is a
Canadian formerly of
Ingersoll. She has resided in
Columbus for the past 15
years.
She is the daughter of the
late La Belle Houdford Phinn
Dowds who was born in
Exeter, and granddaughter
of the late Thomas Houdford.
For many years they sum-
mered in Grand Bend and
operated Galerie La Belle
there in 1965-66 the gallery
promoted Canadian artists.
Maybe it's time
you jumped
into something
more demand!
than a czar pool
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