FROM SOUP TO KNIGHTS SOMETHING FOR EVERYONE AT FALL FESTIVAL.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer PALMDALE - There are dozens of fun things to do for the entire family at Palmdale's Fall Festival this weekend. Wherever one wanders there are artisans, food vendors and musical entertainment. In the Pioneer Living Experience area, 12-year-olds Katie McLaughlin and Katie Cooksey, from Palmdale, tried their hand at grinding wheat. The girls, friends since first grade, both found the experience interesting. ``I like how we can figure (out) how they used to do it a long time ago,'' said Cooksey. After playing with the grinding machine grinding machine Machine tool that uses a rotating abrasive grinding wheel to change the shape or dimensions of a hard, usually metallic, workpiece. Grinding is the most accurate of all the basic machining processes. , the girls moved on to try their hand at using a wringer wring·er n. One that wrings, especially a device in which laundry is pressed between rollers to extract water. Idiom: put (someone) through the wringer Slang To subject to a severe trial or ordeal. to press the water out of clothing after it has been washed on a washboard, which was also available to try out. Another activity was panning for gold in large troughs filled with water. Wandering through the festival is the Bubble Gum Express, a motorized mo·tor·ize tr.v. mo·tor·ized, mo·tor·iz·ing, mo·tor·iz·es 1. To equip with a motor. 2. To supply with motor-driven vehicles. 3. To provide with automobiles. train that provides rides to kids. Also seen among the tents was a Round Table knight carrying his mace. The sound of hammering filled the air at the kids workshop as children of all ages made wooden pumpkin baskets, birdhouses and toolboxes. As kids completed their projects the volunteer staffers from Lowe's Home Improvement Warehouse, which sponsored the workshop, handed out free kid-size aprons, safety goggles goggles, n the protective eyewear worn by dental personnel and patients during dental procedures. goggles see periocular leukotrichia. and certificates of completion. Eight-year-old Brandyn Wagner took great care as he hammered a nail into his pumpkin box, while his dad, Mark, held it steady for him. ``He's having a hard time nailing it in,'' said Mark. Several bent nails littering the table top gave testimony to that fact, but Brandyn persevered until he succeeded at last. His 4-year-old brother, Chandler, also made a pumpkin basket, but was too shy to speak, only nodding his head when asked whether he had fun. Along with their mom, Kim, the Palmdale family was enjoying the day at the festival. ``We always like to get parents involved,'' said Sandra Galvan, an RTM (1) (RealTime Model) Refers to a system or architecture that performs operations in real time. See real time. (2) (Release/Released To M clerk at Lowe's. She said she is expecting 500 kids to participate in the workshop each day of the festival. The creepy and the crawly crawl·y adj. crawl·i·er, crawl·i·est Informal 1. Creepy. 2. Feeling as if covered with moving things. , as well as the cute and cuddly, were available to view and touch at the Imagination Expo. Several brave kids allowed giant African cockroaches cockroaches insects which may carry Salmonella spp. in their gut and play a part in the spread of the disease. to crawl on their shirts. ``It tickles,'' said 10-year-old Christopher Hernandez of Palmdale as the several-inch-long cockroach cockroach or roach, name applied to approximately 3,500 species of flat-bodied, oval insects forming the order Blattodea. Cockroaches have long antennae, long legs adapted to running, and a flat extension of the upper body wall that conceals the sat on his shirt. His sister, Alexandra, 13, allowed her cockroach to crawl all the way over her shoulder to her back where it sat just out of reach. ``I can hold anything,'' said Alexandra. She said she would like one for a pet but couldn't because ``my mom will kill me.'' A baboon baboon, any of the large, powerful, ground-living monkeys of the genus Papio, also called dog-faced monkeys. Five subspecies live in Africa, with one species extending into the Arabian peninsula. spider, African giant millipedes, tarantulas, prairie dogs and macaws are all available to view. Hedgehogs and turtles can also be touched, but not picked up. Gator, a Savannah monitor The Savannah Monitor (Varanus exanthematicus) gets its Latin name from the unkeeled scales on the back of the neck which could be said to erupt, and its common name from the impression that it lives on the African savannah in the wild. lizard, appeared happy to see people although a sign above his cage warned, ``I eat mice and fingers.'' Other features at the festival include a large aerospace exhibit, a game area, and 240 artisans offering a wide variety of 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. for sale. A large variety of food, something to please just about anyone, is also available - including Thai and Chinese food, hot dogs, funnel cakes, snow cones, sausages, Philly cheese steaks, pizza, quesadillas, corn on the cob, gyros This article is about the food dish. For other uses, see Gyro. Gyros or gyro (Greek: γύρος, "turning") (IPA: [ˈjɪːɹəʊ] and tri-tip barbecue. There are plenty of eating areas, some under tents and some out in the open accompanied by the sound of tinkling tin·kle v. tin·kled, tin·kling, tin·kles v.intr. 1. To make light metallic sounds, as those of a small bell. 2. Informal To urinate. v.tr. 1. waterfalls. The Fall Festival will run from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. today and will conclude with a concert by Rick Springfield at the Headliner Stage at 5 p.m. Admission to the festival is $6 for adults and $3 for children and seniors. Parking is free. FALL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE More than 45,000 people are expected to visit the 16th annual Palmdale Fall Festival this weekend at McAdam Park. The festival will continue today, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the park on 30th Street East north of Avenue R. Rick Springfield will perform at 5 p.m. today. All entertainment at the Fall Festival is free with gate admission. Starlight Theatre Stage Today --11 a.m.: Lost Knights --Noon: Kids of Rock Theatre --1 p.m.: Billy and the Hillbillies --2 p.m.: Lost Knights --3 p.m.: Kids of Rock Theatre --4 p.m.: Billy and the Hillbillies Millennium Stage Today --Noon: Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers --1:15 p.m.: Nuns for Fun --2:30 p.m.: Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers --3:45 p.m.: Nuns for Fun Garden Stage Today --11 a.m.: Viviana Guzman and Performers of the World --12 p.m.: L.A. Party Dolls --1 p.m.: Beverly Jensen and the Music Connection --2 p.m.: Viviana Guzman and Performers of the World --3 p.m.: L.A. Party Dolls --4 p.m.: Beverly Jensen and the Music Connection Storybook sto·ry·book n. A book containing a collection of stories, usually for children. adj. Occurring in or resembling the style or content of a storybook: storybook characters; a storybook romance. Stage Today --11 a.m.: Felicia Bedicia and Her Wise Friends --12:30 p.m.: Minikin min·i·kin n. Archaic A very small delicate creature. [Obsolete Dutch minneken, darling, from Middle Dutch, diminutive of minne, love; see men-1 Puppets --1:45 p.m.: Felicia Bedicia and Her Wise Friends --3:30 p.m.: Minikin Puppets Patch's Pumpkin Stage Today --Noon: Dangerous Dinos --1 p.m.: Storytelling with Little Critter --2 p.m.: Dangerous Dinos --3 p.m.: Storytelling with Little Critter --4 p.m.: Dangerous Dinos Studio Showcase Stage Today --10:30 a.m.: Happy Tappers --11 a.m.: Combo Dance --11:30 a.m.: Happy Hoofers --Noon: Dolores Dolores (or Delores) was a common given name (until the 1960s in the USA); it is cognate with the English word "dolorous" (meaning sorrowful) and equivalent in meaning. Craig Dance Stars --1:30 p.m.: Music Connection --2 p.m.: Folklorico --2:30 p.m.: Community Theatre --3 p.m.: Palmdale Youth and Community Orchestra Admission is $6, or $3 for children ages 6 to 12 and senior citizens. CAPTION(S): 4 photos, box Photo: (1 -- color) Visitors at the 16th annual Palmdale Fall Festival have lots to choose from as they stroll the arcade. The festival will conclude today. (2 -- color) Billy of Billy and the Hillbillies chats with members of the audience. (3) Members of the Palmdale Sheriff's All-Purpose Motorcycle team patrol the Fall Festival. (4) Lexi Garcia, 3, of Palmdale tries out the air slide in the children's area of the Palmdale Fall Festival on Saturday. Jeff Goldwater/Staff Photographer Box: FALL FESTIVAL SCHEDULE |
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