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Zurich's 30th Bean Festival
Brenda Burke T -A staff
ZURICH - What do beans, frogs and fireworks have in common?
They're all part of Zurich's 30th annual bean festival.
About 15,000 people are expected to head to Zurich this weekend to eat
beans, see frogs jump, admire antique cars, browse through a street mar-
ket, take rides on a midway, witness a juggler, a fiddler, a dancer, see a
local children's entertainer, sway to bands, win draw prizes, kick up their
heels at a Country & Western dance and experience Cruise Nite.
If this isn't enough to keep you busy, you can always try
the Has Beans Bingo.
It all begins Friday night with a midway, fireworks, the
Country & Western dance at the arena and Cruise Nite.
Saturday is packed with events beginning early down-
town with a Pancake & Sausage Breakfast put on by the
Zurich Minor Athletic Association. The day's entertain-
ment includes bands Four Shadows and Positively Stom-
pin' as well as comedian Country Clem, juggler Craig
Douglas, fiddler Randy Morrison, child entertainer "Den-
nis" and tapp and jazz dancer Jay Schramek (Mr. North).
D tany of the entertainers are performing twice throughout
the day.
The official Bean Festival opening is. t.noon along with the bingo. Dr.
Wallace's Frog Jumping Contest is at 3 p.m. and draws follow at 6:00.
All -day events include a downtown market and midway. The Zurich Mi-
nor Athletic Association Bean Festival Dance happens later at 9:00. And
most importantly, the home -cooked bean dinners are ready to servebe-
tween 11 a.m. and 7 p.m.
Volunteers began to prepare the 2400 pounds of baked beans Sunday
night and have continued cooking hundreds of pounds nearly every day.
The beans are being stored in Ihrge walk-in coolers where they'll wait to
be consumed by eager eaters on Saturday.
"The volunteers have always been willing to lend a hand," said Chief
Cook, Donna Thiel. "We should have 1500 take-outs by the time we're
done Friday."
It all begins
Friday night with a
midway, fireworks,
the county &
western dance at
the arena and
Cruise Nite
Erb added
More volunteers are needed on Friday to help with pack-
aging the take-out beans, preparing the bean salad, coleslaw
and double checking food plans.
As third -year volunteer Carol Prang stood outside the
Bean Festival Kitchen mixing the beans around and around
she explained "they have to be stirred a lot to get them
cooled down."
The breezy weather Monday night certainly. helped where-
as more humid weather means longer stirring time.
This is the last year for Doug Erb as Bean Fest president.
Taking a break from cooking beans Monday night, he said
it's time for "new people (and) new ideas."
he has enjoyed working with everyone and coming up with
,new ideas to improve the Bean Fest,which will have a bigger midway this
year along with a new cookbook, Cooking With Beans. Erb listed the town
Bean Fest banner, bean table canopy and fireworks as some of the fes-
tival's best recent ideas.
Bean Festival President Doug Erb keeps a close eye on the bean cooking Monday night in the Bean Fest Kitchen.
Busy with
beans
Bean cooking vol-
unteers stir and
stir in an effort to
cool the beans
enough to prepare
them for the huge
walk-in coolers
they'll be stored
in until Saturday.
Welcome
to the annual
Bean Festival
In.Zurich
We hope you enjoy
your visit here!
Haberer
Concrete Products
Zurich - 236-4305
Best Wishes to all the
visitors and participants of
Zurich's
30th Annual
Bean Festival
Pau csteckie
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