Zurich Citizens News, 1978-08-31, Page 1NO. 35j
FIRST WITH LOCAL NEWS
Fewer to respond
to bell at nine bells
When the bell rings at the
seven area public schools at
9 a.m. Tuesday, enrolment
is expected to be down about
62 from the same time in
1977. These are figures for
grades one to eight.
The biggest decrease will
be at Huron Centennial near
Brucefield where the total
enrolment will be down 25 to
494. Usborne Central will
have a lower enrolment by
16 pupils at 262.
At Zurich public school the
reduction will be 15 students
and at Hensall the starting
figure will be 13 lower than a
year ago. Their totals. are
170 and 148, respectively.
Stephen Central is the only
school with an increase in
student attendance from 315
to 320. J.A.D. McCurdy at
Huron park enrolment is
down four to 260.
Huron board of education
superintendent Bob Allen
said the enrolment at South
Huron District High School
will be at 1,031. That's one
more than September of
1977.
Allen said there were very
few staff changes for the
term which starts Tuesday
morning.
David Kempt joins the
staff at Huron Centennial
replacing Adrain Brand who
has been transferred to
Stephen Central. Darlene
Templeman is a new staff
member at Exeter public
school and Sharon Ann Dob-
bie and Donna Webster are
half-day additions to the
McCurdy staff.
There are no teaching
changes at South Huron,
Hensall, Zurich or Usborne
Central.
FROM ZURICH HQLLAND TO ZURICH CANADA
Travels country to
see Zurich, Ontario
You have to give bean
festival publicity chairman
Glen Thiel credit. Not only
did the festival attract its
largest crowd ever but it had
a visitor who traversed an
ocean and parts of two con-
tinents to be a part of the an-
nual celebration of the white
bean.
Dave Nadema of Zurich
Holland (yes that's right)
picked up the honour as
coming the longest distance
to visit the festival.
Nadema is a computor
programmer in Rotterdam
and lives in Zurich which is
a community of 180 people
and is located 60 miles from
the Dutch port.
Nadema has been in North
America for the past three
weeks visiting relatives in
the mid -western United
States.
Nadema soi;s he has
visited Zurich Kansas and
Zurich Montana and, has
been travelling via bus,
He said he heard through
the grapevine that the bean
festival was in the third or
fourth week in August and
that a visit to the ministry of
industry and tourism office
in Toronto confirmed.
The lanky Dutchman who
is confirmed travelling ad-
dict said he was enjoying the
festival and noted several
similarities between the two
communities.
Both towns have a cross-
pollination of cultures with
most citizens of the Dutch
community speaking
the Friesland dialect native
to the area and also the
Dutch language.
His Zurich is a
progressive community with
a newspaper being recently
started up and with an ambi-
tion to grow eventually to
about 250 people.
He said in Holland there
has been somewhat of rever-
sal in urbanization with the
smaller communities grow-
ing at a faster rate.
Nadema says his town has
about 1,200 visitors . a year
from Zurich Switzerland.
THURSDAY, AUGUST 31, 1978..
Price Per Copy 20 Cents
1978 BEAN QUEEN — Carol Fisher representing Don's Best Value Food Market was named queen for this year's bean
festival. As last year's Queen Tammy Baker looks on, Mrs. Linda Hendrick presents a bouquet of roses to the new queen. To the
left of Ms. Fisher are first runner-up Cathy McCann of the Hay Township Farmer's Mutual Fire Insurance Agency, Karrie Conlon
of the Bayview golf course and Marlene Glanville who represented Ducharme Homes. Staff photo
Thousands jam community for best
and biggest bean festival ever
According to all reports
the thirteenth annual version
of the Zurich Bean Festival
was the biggest and best
ever with a crowd of
between,. 17,000 and 18.000
attending the day long
event.
Publicity chairman Glen
Thiel said he had never seen
the crowd come as early as
this year's event.
Thiel said 7200 tickets for
the bean meal were sold this
year, up 1,000 from last
year's tally.
The pancake and sausage
breakfast sold around 600
plates of the morning fair
with the breakfast tickets
being sold out by 10:30 a.m.
The amount of food that
was consumed by the
crowd would make a
housewife mad as 2,4.00
pounds of beans, 2,000
pounds of meat, 1,000 pounds
of sliced cabbage, 180
gallons of ketchup, 180
gallons of tomato juice and
350 loaves of bread were
gobbled up.
This year's festival was
blessed with what Thiel call-
ed "perfect weather" with
the morning being overcast
but brightening up in the
afternoon.
Thiel said it will be some
time before it can be deter-
mined the amount of funds
which the festival made this
year.
One of the highlights of the
day was the crowning of this
year's bean queen Carol
Fisher representing Don's
Best Value Food Market.
Cathy McCann of the Hay
Township Farmer's Mutual
Fire Insurance Company
was first runnerup with the
other contestants being
Karrie Conlon representing
the Bayview golf course and
Marlene Glanville who was
the Ducharme Homes
representative.
Prior to the Queen con-
test, a talent show hosted by
popular radio and television
personalities Earl and
Martha Heywood attracted
a large crowd. Providing
some of the entertainment
were the Miller sisters of
Dashwood, the Bedard fami-
ly and the Huron County
Puppet show.
Meanwhile in front of the
post office, things were hop-
ping along in the annual frog
jumping contest sponsored
-by Dr.Charles Wallace.
For frogs of less than
three inches in length Rick
Green's entry jumped 106 in-
ches to place first. Entries
operated by Chuck Green
and Scott Merner finished
second and third.
For frogs greater than
three inches Allan Oesch's
entry jumped 72 inches
which narrowly beat out
Darren McAsh's frog by two
inches. In third spot with a
jump of 51 inches was the
joint entry of Robbie
Dickert-and John Park. •
While the tens of
thousands of people munch-
ed on their bean diet the fif-
ty or so booths that lined the
streets were busy all, day
with the amusement
facilities having long
lineups.
Meanwhile over at the
arena, a share the wealth
bingo proved very popular
along with the bar facilities
that were set up on the
arena floor.
At the ball diamond, fans
of horseshoe pitching were
treated to an excellent dis-
play, as a father and son
team squared off for the
Fred Harburn Ontario
Doubles Championship.
It was the team of Steve
Hohl, world Junior cham-
pion and Slim Harburn who
were pitted against, many
times world champion
Elmer Hohl of Wellesleyand
John Watkinson of St.
Marys.
In the end it was the team
of Hohl and Watkinson who
triumphed.
The bean festival was
topped off in the evening
with a dance featuring
Mozart and the Melody
Makers and Star Trex.
PEOPLES PEOPLE AND MORE PEOPLE — The 13th annual Zurich Bean Festival pro
another overwh:aming success as a huge crowd swelled the population of the village.
the scene of Goshen street at one p.m. Stat`, H,