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HomeMy WebLinkAboutZurich Citizens News, 1969-08-21, Page 4PAGE FOUR ZURICH CITIZENS NEWS Welcome Visitors This Saturday is the day when the small village of Zurich sees its population grow frbm a regular 750 to about 5000. Large crowds of visitors are expected for the fourth annual Bean Festival. Just how many will come depends largely on the weather, although last year, despite the extreme heat and humidity, at least 5,000 people were served. It is almost certain that this year the population will swell to at least ten times the normal count. Such a crowd is bound to create problems—traffic is a particular one — but the festival committee, gaining experience each year, is gradually learning to cope with these. The growth of the festival also brings difficulties of a different kind. An event that attracts crowds of the size that Zur- ich's Bean Festival has in the past could easily become a magnet for the commercial interests. One of the festival committee's prime interests has been in holding commer- cialism on the mall to a minimum, and for this reason applicants for booth space are screened carefully. Such restrictions are necessary if the festival is to retain the rural and antique flavour that has brought it its popular- ity. There seems little doubt that the festival will be succesful again this year with any sort of a break from the weatherman. Practically all the booth space is sold out to area merchants, and several new attractions have been added to the program. And the various festival committees seemed to have the volunteer manpower sit- uation under control. Everything is in readiness for the biggest day of the year in Zurich, and the people of the community extend a sincere welcome to all the visitors who may come to our fair village on the occasion. May the fetival bring back fond memories of those in the past three years, to all of you. A Community Project We were a bit disturbed last week when we read a story in an area daily paper regarding the Zurich Bean Festival, in which full credit for the venture was given to the Zurich Chamber of Commerce. With all due respect to the local organization for their tremendous help in the project during the past years, it should be pointed out that they are not alone in the venture. Other groups, such as the Lions Club, the Women's Institute, all church organizations, the MAA, only to mention a few, have been just as prominent in the Bean Festival plans as the Cham- ber of Commerce has. It is true, however, that the first idea of a Bean Fes- tival was launched at a meeting of the Chamber of Com- merce. and that organization has never, to date, flinched from their share of the work load. But credit cannot be given to any one group for a project which requires the full co-operation of every organization and individual in a community the size of ours. One man, however, who has been extremely prom- inent in the organization of the event since its inception, will be missed from the work force this year. He is Ray McKinnon, who was transferred to the Bank of Montre- al in Haliburton earlier this summer. One of the origina- tors of the idea of a Bean Festival, he has served as chair- man and co-chairman of the project ever since it started. He will be greatly missed by the fellow workers at the festival, although he might be present in the capacity of a visitor this time. Residents of the community have been more than co- operative in past years when it comes to putting their shoulder to the wheel and working for the festival. We are sure they will not disappoint the committee in charge this year. ZURICH Citizens NEWS PRINTED BY SOUTH HURON PUBLISHERS LIMITED, ZURICH HERB TURKHEIM, Publisher Second Class Mail Registration Number 1385 Member: Canadian Weekly Newspapers Association o�''�'��Q° wl'nl Ontario Weekly Newspapers Association i IIIIMPo! tit isS° Subscription Rates: $3.50 per year in advance in Canada; $4.50 in United States and Foreign; single copies 10 cents Those unexpected neighbors Writing a weekly column is something like being pregnant. You can't stop just because you're not in the mood. The typesetters are waiting, the ed- itors are waiting, and the mail- man waits for no man. I've written them in hotel rooms, on trains and on New Year's morning. I've written them with the raging 'flu, the galloping bursitis, and a head that felt more like a foot. And that explains why I'm tapping this out on Grandad's dining -room table on a beauti- ful hot summer afternoon, when any sane person who was on his holidays would be at the beach, or lying under a tree. Why didn't I do it yester- day? Because yesterday was a beautiful, hot summer day and I fell asleep on a raft out in the lake, and my silly wife on shore was afraid I'd fall off and drown and she sent some nit out to wake me, and I was so mad at her presumption (she knows I could swim that lake with both hands tied be- hind me) that I wasn't in the mood for anything but a good domestic hassle. After a month of relatives and friends and casuals drop- ping in, we were looking for- ward to a week of quiet living and "getting away from peo- ple" at Grandad's. It's an idyl- lic setting. A stone farmhouse, overlooking a beautiful bay. Lots of trees around and the nearest neighbor a quarter - mile down the road. Trouble is, it's in our old stamping -ground. Even though we slip in under cover of dark- ness, somebody spots us, and the tom-toms start drumming, "The Smileys are here." Then it's, "When are you going to drop out to the lake?" and "Come on up to the cot- tage for a few days," and "How about dropping around for a drink and a barbeque?" It's grand to be wanted. And all the old friends are so kind and hospitable that it's diffi- cult to say no. So we don't. But it is definitely not conducive to the quiet, meditative life. It's murder on the physique, because old friends want to sit up and talk all night. And so do we. Daytimes are bad, too. When 1 go into town for some milk, it takes me three hours to get home. I have to say hello to Skin the barber, and Skinny the editor, and all the mer- chants I used to sell ads to and little old ladies who remember our children and ask embar- -assing questions about what they're doing now, and then I bump into Don and Mac who are up at their cottages from the States. • Desperately seeking refuge, I drop into the pub for a quiet, cold beer. Within ten minutes I'm talking deer -hunting with Teemy the well -driller and Murdoch the farmer and Don the car dealer and George the millionaire. It's rude to rush off with' my milk when these hard-working chaps insist on one more round for old times sake. Just to add to the pastoral' peace of our week, we brought Pip the kitten, and Grandad is in temporary charge of Screwy Louie, a spirited young poodle. However, it wasn't all bad. Perhaps the highlight for me was a trip "around the mail" with Grandad, who has been delivering rural mail for 40 years, since the days of the Model T in summer and the sleigh in winter. Ever drive a route with a rural mail carrier? It's an ex- perience somewhat like your first ride on a big roller -coast- er. He belts around those grav- el back roads at a hell of a clip, knows every rib and vein THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 1969 in them, and takes corners and hills with the dash of a hell - driver. Each mail box is a personal challenge. 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