Zurich Citizens News, 1975-09-25, Page 18Would you
Have you ever wondered
how so many people from
distant points find out about
the annual Bean Festival in
Zurich? Have you ever wond-
ered what these people from
distant points think about the
annual Bean Festival in Zur-
ich?
Each year before and after
the annual event many art-
icles appear in newspapers
across both Canada and
United States regarding the
Big Day in Zurich. One such
article entitle "Would you
believe --Zurich and the
bean?" appeared in the
Dearborn (Mich) Leader, on
Thursday, August 14, and was
written by one of their colum-
nists, Wally Roberts; who
apparently attended the event
YOMNIMINNMNIMM
35th Anniversary
Dance
for
HARVEY AND BERTHA
TAYLOR
Friday, Sept. 26
Dancing 10 - 2
HULLY GULLY
Varna
Music by
THE HEYWOOD BROS.
No Gifts Please
Lunch Provided
Everyone Welcome
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September 25, 1975, Zurich Citizens News - Page 19
believe ...Zurich and the bean ?
last year.
His story follows;
Remember that old jump -
rope chant? "Beans, beans ---
the musical fruit... the more
you eat the more you toot."
Well, up in Zurich Ontario
there holding a Bean Fest-
ival on the next -to -last Satur-
day in August. And it's
something to go rooty-toot-
toot about, believe me.
The good wife and I attend-
ed the festival last year and
sampled the French bean
soup, the German bean salad,
and a healthy slab of Dutch
apple pie washed down with a
big mug of Brazillian coffee.
The lowly bean has never
been more glorified than in
this Canadian cuisine carnival.
Picking green beans in my
garden last week touched off
my memory cells. I had
neglected t pick one patch
of the green beans and they
had suddenly developed
into lumpy brown beans. You
can't forget those green beans
or they will grow fat and ugly
good only for the bean pot.
I've often wondered as
you lift the plants' green
skirts and rip those dangling,
slim appendages how a bean
plant really feels as you
yank and strip it bare. How
many times can a plant suffer
such an indignity?
WHO SETS THE plant's
inner mechanism that tells
it to keep trying to prod-
uce beans that will go to seed
and so that plant functions et-
ernally? You'11 note if you're
a gardener that after four or
five pickings the plant gives
up and dies.
K
d
JACK RIDDELL
My thanks to the voters of Huron - Middlesex for your
support in the Sept. 18 election.
I look forward to doing my utmost to serve ALL the people
of the riding in any way possible.
I intend to resume my weekly reports from the Legislature
as soon as it is called into session. I also intend to begin again
my Saturday morning visits to towns throughout the riding.
The time and location of these visits will be advertised in
advance in the local press. This should provide a convenient
opportunity for people throughout the riding to meet with me
and discuss any problems they have.
Since the election we have tried to get all the road side
"Riddell" signs taken down. I am very concerned that this
job be completed quickly and thoroughly. If anyone knows of
any of my campaign material that is still posted please
contact one of the following numbers, and it will be taken
care of immediately.
PA R K H I L L 294-6442
LUCAN 227-4840
EXETER 235-2595
HENSALL - ZURICH 236-4034
SEAFORTH 527-0171
CLINTON 482-7309
GODERICH 524-7901
Yours sincerely
Jack Riddell
MPP Huron -Middlesex
Even if that Big Gardener
in the sky sprays life-giving
rain and provides a soft
touch of sunshine the plant
finally curls up and says:
"Look, friend, I've had it.
You've knocked me around
for the last time. See you next
year in the seed catalogue."
Naturally, those beans in
Zurich are of a different
variety.
Those navy beans are harv-
ested mechanically and never
feel the soft pluckinig „hands
of a gentleman farmer.
In Zurich, they pay homage
to the Navy Bean. All 800
happy souls in this small vill-
age outside of Grand Bend,
Ontario prepare huge pots of
beans to feed the hordes
that descent upon them late
in August.
They soak the beans over-
night. Hunks of beef or cured
ham are plopped in before
the three-hour boil begins.
To make those beans properly
mealy in texture a smidgen of
baking soda is added during
the last hour.
If you arrive in Zurich
prior to the 11 a.m. to 7 p.m.
serving of the beans and ham
you can assuage your appet-
ite with pancakes and sausage
from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m..
Folks in Zurich advise you to
Come Early, Stay Late and
Have Fun.
PLENTY TO DO FOR the
whole family. Tractor rides,
Drucker's store, buggy rides,
Horse races. Horseshoe pitch-
ing contests. Dancing after a
cuntry and western show.
Even a beauty contest to pick
a Festival Queen.
Zurich is only a couple of
hours away via 1-94. Cross ov-
er into Canada at Port Huron
and head for Grand Bend via
Highway 7 and 84. When the
Lake Huron breezes begin to
thicken with that sweet,
savory fragrance of those
bubbling, boiling beans
you' 11 know you 're almost
there.
Yep, there'll be a lot of fid-
dlin, scraping and thomping
at the Country and Western
show. The central area of the
village is blocked off and a
once -a -year mall gives Zurich
an old-world market atmos-
phere.
Come in and see us for
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