A bumper crop of fun for all; 10th Harvest Fair nears on Sept. 19.Byline: Betty Lilyestrom COLUMN: Leicester Notebook Leicester will have its 10th annual Harvest Fair on Sept. 19, with all the highlights that bring enthusiastic crowds to the Common each year - crafters, artisans, food vendors, children's games, food and photo competitions and an auction. The races will include a dry race, a wet replacement race and a mystery race, details of which won't be known until fair day. Also new this year will be a game of questions and answers by the Republican Town Committee, which will be giving out pocket copies of the Constitution. Among the local groups that have been longtime fair participants are the Leicester Mothers' Club, the Leicester Historical Commission, the Leicester Historical Society, the Leicester Lions The Leicester Lions were a Speedway team which operated from 1949 until their closure in 1983. [1] Track History Hunters Speedway started in 1930, however beset with problems the track closed quickly. Club, the First Congregational Church First Congregational Church may refer to:
As always, locally grown or prepared vegetables, flowers, baked and canned goods will be judged at the beginning of the day and auctioned off, either individually or in prepared baskets, at fair's end. Also auctioned will be the corn stalks, chrysanthemums and pumpkins that will be used to decorate Town Hall for the food display. Local organizations will set up vending booths all around the Common to sell a wide variety of food specialties. The vendors and their offerings are: Lions Club, hot dogs, french fries and hamburgers; Mothers' Club, baked goods and candy; Historical Society, coffee and muffins; Boy Scout Troop 126, baked potatoes with fixings; Girl Scout Troop 727, doughnuts, hot chocolate and cider; Congregational Church, apple crisp Apple crisp in the United States or Apple crumble as it is known in the United Kingdom is a dessert consisting of baked apples topped with a crispy crust. Ingredients usually include cooked apples, butter, sugar, flour, cinnamon, and often oats and brown sugar, ginger, with ice cream; Christ Episcopal Church, chili; Leicester High School class of 2012, sausage with peppers and onions; and Daisy Troop of Rochdale, s'mores. The photography contest will have a new category, previous fair photos, along with the usuals - Leicester community, agriculture and portraits. Spencer Savings Bank savings bank, financial institution that, until recently, performed only the following functions: receiving savings deposits of individuals, investing them, and providing a modest return to its depositors in the form of interest. will again sponsor the children's decorated bicycle contest, with the winning prize a new bike. The bank will also sponsor the popular free train ride around the Common. Country Bank for Savings will offer free pumpkins for the under-18 crowd to decorate as well as free face painting. Entertainment will include a program of bagpipe bagpipe, musical instrument whose ancient origin was probably in Mesopotamia from which it was carried east and west by Celtic migrations. It was used in ancient Greece and Rome and has been long known in India. tunes by local historian and Leicester High School history teacher Joseph D. Lennerton 3rd; Leicester's own Vic and Sticks; the roaming minstrels Boys on the Town; fiddlers led by Myra McCloud, Marilyn Butler Marilyn Butler (born 1937) is a British literary critic. She was Rector of Exeter College, Oxford from 1993 to 2004, and was King Edward VII Professor of English Literature at the University of Cambridge, from 1986 to 1993. She is a Fellow of the British Academy. and Mary Cartagna; the band Yankee Notions; and a Punch and Judy show Punch and Judy show punch n → Kasper(le)theater nt for the kids. The Peer Leader group from the Leicester Middle School will conduct children's games. Mr. Lennerton will also lead historic walking tours of the Common and surrounding area. Also on Sept. 19 will be a quite different event: the Regional Hazardous Waste Hazardous waste Any solid, liquid, or gaseous waste materials that, if improperly managed or disposed of, may pose substantial hazards to human health and the environment. Every industrial country in the world has had problems with managing hazardous wastes. Day held every two years at the Leicester Recycling Center on Mannville Street. Hazardous material from the workbench, yard, garage and house will be accepted at the center from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. on that day. The fee will be $28 per half-carload and $48 per carload carload In commodities trading, a railroad car or truckload of grain that ranges from 1,400 to 2,500 bushels. , with the size of the load determined by the company conducting the event. A load could be rated as more than one carload. For a list of materials that will be accepted, visit www.leicesterma.org, then click on recycling center and then on hazardous waste. The materials will be accepted from any individual as well as from small businesses. A Leicester woman has just opened a program providing preschool and after-school activities Monday through Friday for local youngsters in kindergarten through Grade 6. Louise Curelop will operate Curelop Kids Corner in the hall adjoining Christ Episcopal Church at 1089 Stafford St., Rochdale. Mrs. Curelop said she started the program after learning the town school system had no preschool or after-school programs. Fees are $8 a day for preschool, $12 a day for after-school. The fee for students who take part in both morning and afternoon sessions all five days will be $85 a week. Youngsters will be dropped off at the Stafford Street site at 7 a.m. and school buses will pick them up there at the appropriate time and transport them to their public school. In the afternoon, they will be brought from the school to Stafford Street by school bus and picked up there by their parents. The after-school session will run from 2:30 to 6 p.m. Mrs. Curelop, who is a certified teacher and has a bachelor of arts degree from the University of Massachusetts The system includes UMass Amherst, UMass Boston, UMass Dartmouth (affiliated with Cape Cod Community College), UMass Lowell, and the UMass Medical School. It also has an online school called UMassOnline. at Amherst, is completing a master of arts Master of Arts Noun a degree, usually postgraduate in a nonscientific subject, or a person holding this degree Noun 1. Master of Arts - a master's degree in arts and sciences Artium Magister, MA, AM degree in education at Anna Maria College Anna Maria College is a four-year Catholic liberal arts college, founded in 1946 and located in the rural town of Paxton, Massachusetts. The school's 180-acre campus is situated a few miles away from the city of Worcester. . She said she handles the preschool program with the assistance of her husband, Gary Curelop. She is assisted in the after-school session by various aides, including high school students. This is not the first time the Stafford Street site has been used by a private group for a preschool program. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, before the Leicester Public Schools established kindergarten or preschool programs, local youngsters got their first taste of formal education at a private operation there. ART: PHOTO PHOTOG pho·tog n. Informal A person who takes photographs, especially as a profession; a photographer. : T&G File Photo/RICH DUGAS CUTLINE: Leicester Middle School Peer Leader MacKenzie Fullen, right, leads her team in potato sack races on the Common at last year's Harvest Fair. |
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