Village Squire, 1980-10, Page 21vegetables and the staff often packs picnic lunches for guests.
The kitchen has a microwave oven and small appliances and is
open to guests for coffee -making and preparing Tight snacks.
Hostess Lois Vanstone says guests seem to enjoy going out to
dinner at nearby Benmiller Inn and other local restaurants.
Arrangements can also be made to allow Cherrydale guests to
use facilities at the Inn, such as tennis courts, swimming pool
and the sauna.
This spring a new dimension was added to Cherrydale's
activities when Mrs. Mazzoleni's daughter and son-in-law, Gina
and Ero Wyss, opened a riding stable for visitors and local
residents.
The stable includes ten horses, a pony and one colt. The
200 -acre farm affords numerous one-hour and two-hour trails
through woodlands and along riverbanks.
Cook -outs are becoming popular among the riders with food
provided by the stable. Reservations for horseback riding are
taken through Cherrydale Farm.
During the winter, the trails are popular for cross-country
skiing, and the basement of the house. nicknamed "The Forge,"
is a Welcome Centre.
When the house was built, the kitchen was located in the
basement, and cooking was done over a six-foot fireplace. Later
the kitchen was moved to an addition on the main floor, and the
basement became a blacksmith shop. Longtime residents of
75 per cent of the clientele
comes from Michigan
Colborne Township recall taking their horses through the wide
basement door to the shop.
Now "The Forge," with its rustic walls and furniture, is a
warm place for skiers in the winter and cool place for summer
visitors to spend an evening watching T.V.
Although Cherrydale doesn't advertise. news has spread from
one satisfied customer to another. Articles on the home have
appeared in The Detroit Free Press. Oakland Press and Financial
Post. Mrs. Vanstone estimates 75 per cent of the clientele comes
from Michigan, the other 25 per cent from Ontario.
The farm setting is ideal for small business conferences. Firms
report their farm seminars were their first seminars free of
distractions. The staff prepared lunches of cold cuts for the
conventions -allowing work to continue all day.
Mrs. Vanstonc is assisted by Bernice Fisher and Shelley Baer.
FAMILY APPEAL
Cherrydale is also appealing to families. Children from cities
enjoy the space and freedom and are too fascinated with the new
environment to become bored. Adults enjoy getting away from a
ringing telephone.
A mother and two children. from Windsor, spent five days at
Cherrydale this summer; a young couple with their son
discovered the guest house when they were travelling to the
Blyth Summer Festival and made another booking before
leaving.
Two Toronto ladies staved overnight last October to attend the
Christmas Country Fair in Saltford and booked the weekend for
1980 as well.
Renting the whole guest house is a pleasant arrangement for
families and small groups, but strangers sharing the house are
no problem. The atmosphere is informal - at breakfast. toasters
are set on the large dining room table and everyone makes their
own toast, just like they do at home
Friendships develop, and accoraing to Mrs. Vanstonc, by the
second day it's just like one big family.
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