CHERRIES RIPE FOR THE PICKING.Byline: Bhavna Mistry Daily News Staff Writer In a tradition that dates back 15 years, Leona Valley will celebrate its annual Cherry Festival on Saturday coinciding with the opening of the ``you-pick'' cherry orchards cherry orchard focal point of the declining Ranevsky estate. [Russ. Drama: Chekhov The Cherry Orchard in Magill II, 144] See : Decadence . ``It's just a good family outing,'' said Tom Perkins Thomas James Perkins (born 1932) is an American businessman, capitalist, and was one of the founders of leading venture capital firm Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield & Byers. Education Perkins received a B.S. in EECS (course 6) from MIT in 1953. , Leona Valley Cherry Festival spokesman. ``You come and bring your kids and your grandmother. It's really a fun event.'' The festival will begin at 11 a.m. with a parade that starts at Leona Valley School, on Leona Avenue at 90th Street West, runs north on 90th, and finishes at the Leona Valley Community Building at 8367 Elizabeth Lake Road. ``The parade attracts everyone,'' Perkins said. ``You have kids in cherry costume, pets dressed up, local floats, local bands, antique cars and equestrian groups.'' One of the annual highlights of the parade is the ugly truck contest, in which entrants decorate their trucks to be as ugly as possible. Following the parade there will be an arts and crafts arts and crafts, term for that general field of applied design in which hand fabrication is dominant. The term was coined in England in the late 19th cent. as a label for the then-current movement directed toward the revivifying of the decorative arts. fair, games for the children and a barbecue at the community building. ``Local artisans will come show their stuff and sell their wares,'' Perkins said. Festivalgoers also will get to pick from the early crop of cherries. ``The following weekend will produce the ripe Bings,'' Perkins said. According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. officials, this year's cherries are looking better than last year's harvest. ``We didn't have the snow we had last year,'' Perkins said. ``Last year's crop was pretty dismal. ``This is a perfect climate for cherries. We've got the altitude, good soil and water. Cherries need these things "These Things" is an EP by She Wants Revenge, released in 2005 by Perfect Kiss, a subsidiary of Geffen Records. Music Video The music video stars Shirley Manson, lead singer of the band Garbage. Track Listing 1. "These Things [Radio Edit]" - 3:17 2. . We're also sheltered from the wind.'' The cherry-picking season will last about two weeks. ``We have a higher concentration of you-pick orchards than anyone in the U.S.,'' Perkins said. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: (color in Verb 1. color in - add color to; "The child colored the drawings"; "Fall colored the trees"; "colorize black and white film" color, colorise, colorize, colour in, colourise, colourize, colour AV edition only) Ray ``Blackie'' Blackburn , owner of Blackie's Bing Cherry Bing cherry n. A variety of cherry with juicy, sweet, deep red to nearly black fruit. [Perhaps after an employee of the cherry's originator.] Noun 1. Orchards, checks the fruit on some of his trees. Jeff Goldwater/Daily News |
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