The Goderich Signal-Star, 1983-09-21, Page 35With the 18th Annual
Colborne Township
Christmas Country Fair
quickly approaching, the
craftsmen are getting
prepared. One such person is
Helen Willems who makes
handbags and sweaters in
her spare time.
Approximately 10 years
ago, Willems taught herself
how to crochet and thought it
would be interesting to make
handbags.
"I like treading on new
territory and accepting a
challenge," she explained.
Willems, who also knits,
does needlepoint, ceramics
and plays the organ, uses
basicly the same stitch, but
varies the shapes of the
handbags. She estimates
that it would take her three
CNIB
canvass to
commence
The local campaign for the
Canadian National Institute
for the Blind (CNIB) will be
held in October. Members of
the Goderich Lions Club will
be canvassing door to door
and hope to raise more than
$5,000 this year. Last year,
the Club's canvass yielded
$4,822.
Also during October,
wooden boxes will be set up
in all of the town's banks for
the collection of used eye
glasses. Those glasses
donated will be sent to
Toronto and then shipped
overseas where they will be
distributed to needy people.
The Bluewater Blind Club
will host a CNIB visual aid
display in the auditorium of
Wesley Willis United
Church, Clinton, on Tuesday,
September 20. Everyone is
welcome.
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Busily preparing for the 18th Annual Country Fair, Helen Willem works on her handbags.
This will be her first time participating in the Fair although she has attended it every year
since she moved here. Helen will be selling handbags and 100 per cent wool sweaters.
( photo by Anne Narejko)
First time Country Fair exhibitor
to four days, working four or
five hours a day, to complete
one handbag.
"It's the stitching the
sections together that takes
most of the time," explained
Willems.
While living in Toronto,
Willems was asked to teach
some public school children
how to knit and crochet.
Besides looking after her
family, and working on her
hobby, Willems works at the
Benmiller General Store.
While working, several
people have stopped to
comment on her handbag,
which she made heiSelf, and
has a few in the store. So far
these are the only ones she
has sold.
The Willems family
benefits from their mothers
hobby as well. They receive
100 per cent wool sweaters
for birthdays, Christmas, or
just because their mother
wants them tokeep warm. A
few of the sweaters will also
be on sale at the Fair.
Willems has lived in this
area for three years now.
The first and second year she
went to the Christmas
Country Fair, but only as a
spectator. This Will be her
first year as a craftsperson.
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Kite eati6Waterloo is
lovely thrghrnit the year.
But in autilmn, when
splashes of 'color transform
the leaven, theseason
becomes a symbOtof the 'Con-
trasts offered brthis Milejoe
area. From the langttormis
pace of a horse-drawn car-
riage, to the noisy fun of
Oktoberfest, :the region
comes alive - as graceful
trees don party colors to join
the celebration.
Visit the area around
Kitchener -Waterloo, alidsoti
may think You've stepped
back a century hi time, Men-
nonite farmers still drive
horse-drawn buggies along
the side roads. Dressed in
traditional dark clothing and
wide -brimmed black has,
Ontario Mennonites are
skilled farmers who live in
their own communities. The
descendants of Penn-
sylvania German settlers
who arrived in Ontario in the
last century in Conestoga
wagons, they have retained
most of their old custom
Visitors to the area are still
astonished by neat rows of
horses and carriages lined
up in parking lots.
Yet in the heart of this
serene, pastoral • region,
ablaze in fall with red and
gold maples, you can visit
one of the most boisterous
and the single most popular
festivals in Canada - the .
Kitchener -Waterloo
Oktoberfest. In sharp con- ,
trast with the pace of the
Mennoaites, it reflects the
influence of later waves of
German immigrants to
Canada - mainly city -
dwellers who arrived in the
last few decades.
Modelled after the Munich
• festival held in Germany
since 1810, Oktoberfest
began in 1969 and has grown
to enormous proportions.
This year, from October 7 to
• October 15, the entire city
will get involved. More than
20 festival halls and tents
will attract upward of 600,000
visitors.
The word gernutlichkeit,
meaning warm fellowship,
sets the tone of the festival.
The accent is on beer and
good food. During
Oktoberfest, every hotel and
restaurant serves, Wiener
schnitzel, thick German
sausages, sauerbrauten,
kohlroladen, strudel and
other German delicacies.
Riming steins of beer are
• served by cheerful
waitresses in dirndl dresses
and waiters garbed in
lederhosen.
Beer drinkers are rated by
their capacity. To become a
Bier Doktor you must be
able to drain a full stein. If
half a stein is your max-
imum, you are, a mere Burp
Meister. Less than that and
you are a Small Schlupper.
The theme song is always
Em Prosit. At, first note,
eVeryone jumps to their feet
and joins in singing. Lock
arms with 'those of your
neighbors and sway in time
with the music in the
customary German manner
and you don't have to speak
the language to: understand
the sentiment. The effect is
contagious. Strangers quick-
ly become friends.
Activities scheduled for
each day apeal to, all age
groups. They include -a
parade of marching bands,
decorated floats and horse-
drawn beer wagons. There is
also a" ; 1::enschutgenfest,"
an archery cordestp„ and a
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Jog competition, phisshow tea
Arnied Fo $' jet
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Other events include
Blooming Affair, which Is a
festival of flowers and
fashions, an eveningf
ethnic dance performances
by local groUps, •end an
operetta - The Gypsy Baron.
Throughout the week, local
arts and crafts are
demonstrated.
But not all festivals in On-
tarie,are,aorambunctious as
the one staged in Kitchener -
Waterloo. In the surrounding
rural areas and in small
towns and villages
throughout the provincie,
fall fairs offer a more relax-
ed form of entertainment.
The fall fair, which in On-
tario has a long and
honorable tradition dating
back to 1792, was originally
just a place where farmers
and their wives gathered to
gossip about crops, the
weather and local interests
in general. But in recent
years fall fairs have
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broadened In scope ant,..„
attract thousands of v ,
Even. if you don't h1104:'9
end of a plough from
othera fall fair
teresiing to visit. In addltiint-
to the livestock competitimia'
Vir,ei-Ar •
which have always been a 5;00 RELIGIOUS TOWN HALL
major attraction, you may(Wed.)
now see pony and harness'
racing, competitions for
singers, dancers and musi-
cians, beauty contests and
cheerleaders twirling
batons.
There are even contests
for pie -eating, pounding
nails into wood and (for
wives only) throwing rolling
pins. And there is always a
midway with games of skill
and chance, shooting
galleries and rides. The con-
trast between show biz glit-
ter and local events is
enough to please every
member of the family. Fall
fairs are always fun in On-
tario.
For a comprehensive list
of fall fairs write to the On-
tario Ministry of Agriculture
and Food, Communications
Branch, 801 Bay Street, 12th
floor, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada. M7A 1A5 or call
(916) 965-1056.
Rustling hits Exeter
EXETER - An Usborne
Township farmer is the
latest victim of an increasing
number of cattle rustling
incidents.
• Williani Pincombe of RR 3,
Exeter, lost 18 head of cattle
from his feedlot on Sept. 6.
The animals, housed in a
barn on the, Kirkton Road,
near ' the Pincombe
residence, were valued at
$10,000.
A number of farmers in
western Ontario have been
victimized by similar thefts
in recent weeks and the
cattlemen's association has
posted a reward for in-
formation leading to the
arrest of the culprits.
Festival
planned
For the tenth year you are
invited to visit Flesherton, at
the entrance to the Beaver
Valley, to take part in the an-
nual celebration of the Split
Rail Festival on Sept. 23, 24
and 25th.
At the centre of the
Festival are over 100 han-
dicraft and antique booths in
and around the arena. Ar-
tisanswill be displaying
glass, brass, china, silver,
copper, wicker, crystal,
wood, ironware, furniture,
painting, carving, jewelry,
spinning, cabinet making,
quilting, candles and petit
point. The booths will be
open Friday evening, Satur-
day and Sunday.
Also on the Friday evening
will be a Euchre tourna-
ment, and there will be food
booths for those who want to
come over and not wait at
home for supper.
Saturday is a really busy
day with a Road Race (2km
prizes for many categories)
at 10 a.m.; a turkey shoot at
1 p.m.; a horseshoe tourna-
ment and Andy Forgrave's
Magic Show both at 2 p.m.;
children's games and a
variety of knitting contests
at 3 p.m.; and a dance from 9
to 1 in the evening.
There will also be a Quilt
Auction 'at 1 p.m., and for
those who are hungry an a la
carte luncheon at St. John's
United Church and the
famous Olde Tyme Fowl
Supper at the High School.
On Sunday the booths are
open again and a special An-
tique Consignment Auction
will be held at noon. Andy
Forgrave will perform again
just as the Tug 0' War com-
petition is getting under
way. The food booths will
still be open
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