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Times-Advocate, 1982-08-25, Page 23Times -Advocate, August 25,1982 Pogo 23 Seventeenth Bean Festival follows tried and true recipe Take one ton of white beans. Add fifteen cases of ketchup, 20 cases of tomato juice, 150 kilograms dark brown sugar, 20 kilograms salt, 300 pounds bacon ends, measured tablespoons of pep- per and mustard, and liberal amounts of "a secret ingredient." Put 300 pounds of the mix into each at two large cookers and cook for about five hours. Cook another 600 pounds on each of the four succeeding nights. Remove beans from cooler early on the morning of Zurich's annual Bean Festival, reheat, and serve with ham, coleslaw, fiesta bean salad and bread to about 8,000 of the 15,000.20,000 peo- ple expected at the Festival this year. Other factors which have ° contributed to an event that grows more successful and popular each year are the no - admission -charge policy, the hours of free entertainment, the almost -guaranteed sunny skies, a midway, a frog jum- ping contest, the Canadian Horseshoe championships, a queen contest, free bus tours of area farms. and many We/come to the 17th Annual ZURICH BEAN FESTIVAL Your Friendly Pontiac -Buick Cadillac and GMC Truck Dealer HURON MOTOR PRODUCTS isms Tek'ttene 619-2364361 it4its Awn ft., Simla ZWIC 1, otermaO !MM tiff -. . Saturday, August 28 Frog Jumping CONTEST (Bring your own Frog or Toad) Bean Festival Mall Area Registration 2:30 Jump-offs 3:00 PRIZES DONATED BY DR. C.J. WALLACE qo[Ien c/imp3e3 This weekend is Zurich's big day of the year. On Satur- • day, August 28th, the Zurich Bean Festival will commence early in the morning and keep going well into the evening. The Ladies Auxiliary of the Home will be having a food booth at the festival and will also have their quilt on display which will be raffled sometime during the late afternoon. We hope visitors will look for the booth and support our ladies. Perhaps you noticed the donations recently made to the Home by the Auxiliary in last week's paper. We would like to thank all who have been saving their Zehr tapes and bringing them to the - Home which made it possible for the Auxiliary to exchange them for the Geriatric.Chair. We are still saving the tapes and would appreciate your assistance in accumulating them. • The sympathy of residents and staff is extended to the family of the late Mrs. Olive Horton. Mrs. Thelma Corrigan is still a patient in a general hospital. Bingo was played on Friday evening followed by refreshments. The Sunday evening chapel service was conducted by Rev. Grant Mills of Exeter United Church. Mr. Campbell presided at the organ during the service. Enjoy the 17th Annual ZURICH BEAN FESTIVAL Parkins & Erb Garage SLINOCO Specializing in Gasoline, Tires, Batteries, Exhaust Systems, Brakes and Servicing Jim Parkins - Charlie Erb - Phil Erb 16 Main St., Zurich, Ont. 236.4812 • booths and concessions. The most important .compo- nent of all, though, is the hard work of the more than 100 volunteers who have put the whole winning recipe together. The one unchanging ele- ment is the number of helping hands needed. Chuck Erb, owner of one of the garages in Zurich, has been volunteering his services• for the past five years as a member of the Bean Festival Committee. He will hand the chairmanship over to Rick Fisher this year, after serving a two-year term as president. Erb counted off some of the mappower requirements; ten people are needed to prepare the beans, and 45 to work in the kitchen on the actual day. The Zurich Chamber of Com- merce, the Lions and the Minor Athletics Association each staff one of the three ser- , ving tables. Four five -man two-hour shifts add up to 20 servers per table, for a total of 60. "We need new recruits," he said. "We have lots of willing hands on Bean Day, but we need more help ahead of time." Erb explained that serving on the committee is not a big job. nor a year round one. The Festival organizers meet once a month from March un- til July, and the busiest time is the week before the big day. "Everyone is too busy, but a good thing is worth taking time for", Erb said. Sherry baked beans 2 cans (19 oz. each) beans with pork 1 medium onion, finely diced 1!2 cup brown sugar, packed 1 tsp. instant coffee 1/4 cup water 2 tsp. dry mustard / tsp. salt 4 slices bacon, finely diced th, cup sherry Alternate beans and onions M a 11/2 -quart casserole. Sim- mer sugar, coffee, water, mustard and salt for 5 minutes. Pour hot mixture over beans and stir lightly. Sprinkle with bacon pieces. Bake covered at 3506 for 30 minutes. Uncover andstir in sherry. Bake, uncovered, 20 to 30 minutes longer. Makes 6 to 8 servings. Note: If using beans canned in brown sugar sauce, the brown sugar may be omitted from the recipe. Erb doesn't think people realize how touch money is generated by the Festival. The funds taken in by the Minor Athletic Association, the various church organiza- tions and the Bean Committee go back to the community. The Beath Committee has spent several thousand dollars installing hydro and water service and electrical hookups at the new conserva- tion park behind the com- munity centre, finances Meals on Wheels, donates a sizeable amount to the Grand Bend figure=skaters (who in turn painted Zurich's picnic tables), helped finance new signs at the entrances to the village, and are continually donating money to the arena for maintenance and upgrading. "This keeps Zurich on the map," Erb emphasized. He mentioned that all the beans are donated by the On- tario Bean Marketing Board and the three Hensall mills, Cooks, Thompsons, and the Co -0 For bean dinner customers, there is no limit on the beans. Although the other items on the menu are served in prescribed quantites, customers can have all the beans they can eat. The price of a bean dinner has risen slowly from $1 in 1966 to $4 this year, up only 50 cents from 1981. The Festival organizers have applied to be included in the Guiness Book of World Records for cooking the most beans for a specific event. As for that magic ingre- dient in the bean recipe. Could it be. the tons of good will poured into the Zurich Bean Festival by the many helping hands behind the scene? JIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIt111111111111111111111114 • THE TASTE TEST — Chuck Erb, president of the Bean Festival committee, samples some of the beans the food committee began cooking Monday evening. Too few girls for Queen contest No queen will reign over the Zurich Bean Festival this year. Despite the efforts of organizer Rosemary Scott and assistant Debbie Fisher, and ads that ran -for two weeks in the Exeter, Mitchell, Seaforth and Clinton papers, only three girls responded. Two of the entrants were from ,Exeter, one from Hensel]. BEGINS FOR '82 — The big brown Bean Festival kitchen doors opened once more, and volunteers began cooking beons for Saturday's diners. Waniklek - TO THE 17th ANNUAL ZURICH BEAN FESTIVAL Drop in and see us ... , we're right by the stage STADE HARDWARE Zurich 236-4921 "We needed at least five contestants for a viable con- test," Mrs. Scott explained. After many phone calls, and as many rejections, the contest organizers made the painful decision'to cancel on Saturday night, a week before the Bean Festival. "What really upset me was that no girl from Zurich was interested," Rosemary con- tinued. "It was becoming a Iworthwhile endeavour. I was disappointed there wasn't more response this year. The queen contest has been part of Bean Festival festivities since 1968, two years after the Festival began. Contestants identified themselves and their spon- sors on the stage at 3, and a queen was named about two hours later. The winner received about 5200 in cash, ,plus many gifts from local merchants. The Zurich queen went on to compete at the Lucknow Fair for the title of Miss Western Ontario, and that winner was eligible for the Miss Dominion of Canada contest at the Toronto Exhibition. The contest organizers are not discouraged. They are already making plans for next year. One possibility is lowering the age limit, although a girl must be 16 to enter the Lucknow contest. "We feel it would be a shame to let this die out," Rosemary said. "We've tried to make the contest as much Enjoy yourself at the 17th annua Bean Festival fun as possible." She and her committee are determined, to try even harder. "We're not giving up. Maybe after this lull, we'll get more response next year," she concluded. Emmanuel United Church REV. 8. LAING B.A. B. Div. Organist Mrs. E. Grace Martin August 29 - 11:15 Q.T. Rev. George Anderson guest speaker Service will be conducted by the men of the congregation Please join us. We extend o warm welcome to all. Zurich Mennonite Church Pastor CLAYTON KUEPFER • Sunday, August 29 8:45 o.m. - Worship Service 9:45 a.m. -Sundoy Church School 11:00 a.m. - Worship Service Wed. 8:00 p.m. Bible Study and Prayer Service Meditation "Blessed be the Lord, who doily loadeth us with benefits, even the God of our salvation. Psal 68:19 St. Peter's Lutheran Church REV. CHERYL ASHICK B.A. M.Div. Vice Pastor Organist Mrs. Christine Eagleson B.M.A. Sunday, August 29 10:00 a.m. - Worship Service 10:45 a.m. - Sunday School There isa nursery for small children which is supervised dur- ing the worship service. Everyone Welcome Phone. 2384139 Fred and Steve Haberer and Staff RUINER CONCRETE PRODUCTS LIMITED 236-4305 Zurich • Residents of the Village of Zurich extend a warm welcome to all those who are attending the Bean Festival Corporation of the VILLAGE OF ZURICH FRED MABSRER REEVE: Bob Fisher Leroy Thiel SNAROM BAKER CLfRK Isidore Laporte Keith Westlake COUNCILLORS 4 1 A •