Good Times June 2011

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TIMESVol. 5 No. 9

Don Hemple, PublisherNancy Spencer, Editor

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Contents Birthday Trivia

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Birthday trivia answers

1. Kathy Bates2. Michele Lee3. Bjorn Borg

4. Robert Barton

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5. Johnny Depp

1. I was born June 28, 1948 in Memphis, Tenn. Iam an actress who won an Academy Award formy role in Misery. Who am I?

2. I was born June 24, 1942 in Los Angeles. I aman actress/singer/dancer who is best known

for playing Karen Cooper Fairgate MacKenziein the prime time soap opera, Knots LandingWho am I?

3. I was born June 6, 1956 in Sweden. I was aprofessional tennis player who won five con-secutive Wimbledon singles titles. Who am I?

4. I was born on June 6, 1947 in Glendale,California. I am an American actor and voice-actor, best known for playing the fictional

serial killer Freddy Krueger, in the Nightmareon Elm Street film series. Who am I?

5. I was born on June 9, 1963 in Owensboro,Kentucky. I am actor who had a lead roll in theTV series 21 Jump Street. Some of my otherfilms include Edward Scissorhands and The Pirates of the Carribbean film series.Who am I?

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6-7 . BARN STORMIN

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4 pm- Cruise-In5 pm - Chick Stewart

Baseball Tourney6:30 pm-Quarter Auction(Community Building)6:30 pm -Van Wert Concert Band7:00 pm-Corn Hole Tourney9 pm - Co-Ed Sotball10:00 pm - FIREWORKS

Sat. - June 187 am - Community Days

Gol Tourney8 am - Garage Sales9 am-Baseball Tourney10 am - Tye-Dye Family Class11 am-2pm-Fire Saety Show1 pm - Texas HoldEm;

Wiener Dog Races2 pm - Tractor Rides,Chamber Fun Challenge

3 pm - Singer Sarah Stoner4 pm - PARADE5-7pm - Erastus Band

7 pm - Auction Items/GunRafe/Hog Rafe; Concert -Jesse King @ The Bell8 pm - Mid.-Kill the Rabbit

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T ose ere T e DaysHowdy partner...

Just call me HoppyWhen television became popu-

lar in the late 1940s and 1950s,TV westerns quickly became anaudience favorite. The peak year

for television westerns was 1959,with 26 such shows airing duringprime-time.

The rst true western on TV,premiering on June 24, 1949, wasthe Hopalong Cassidy show.

Hopalong Cassidy is a cowboyhero, created by Clarence E. Mul-ford, who wrote a series of popu-lar stories and novels. In his earlyprint appearances, the characterappears as a rude, dangerous and

rough-talking galoot.The movies made from the sto-ries and novels were tremendouslysuccessful and the transition to TVwas thought to be a good move.In fact, the initial TV broadcastswere so successful that NBCcould not wait for a television se-ries to be produced, and simply re-edited the old feature lms downto broadcast length. The Westerntelevision series starred WilliamBoyd in his all black cowboy

ensemble, along with his horseTopper.

Hopalongs sidekicks changedover the years, beginning withWindy Halliday, then SpeedyMcGinnis, then California Carl-son.

Boyd earned millions as Ho-palong, mostly from merchandiselicensing and endorsement deals.In 1950, Hopalong Cassidy wasfeatured on the rst lunch box to

bear an image, causing sales forAladdin Industries to jump from50,000 units to 600,000 units injust one year.

Back in the SaddleThe Gene Autry Show rst

aired on CBS from 1950 to 1955and was sponsored by WrigleysDoublemint Chewing Gum. Itfollows the adventures of singingcowboy Gene Autry, his WonderHorse Champion, and his side-kick Pat Buttram, who travel theSouthwest to maintain law and or-der. The series was a collection ofstand-alone episodes: Each uniqueshow has Genes trademark mix-ture of action, comedy, and sing-ing.

Each episode of The Gene

Autry Show, is a complete half-hour story of wholesome, rugged,exciting Western adventure withGenes songsusually one to ashowneatly blended into theplot.

The Gene Autry Show was verysuccessful, running ve seasonson CBS from July 23, 1950, untilDecember 24, 1955, with a totalof 91 episodes, 15 of which werelmed in color. The year 1955

marked the end of Genes on-screen career, as he had concludedhis movies in 1953 with The Lastof the Pony Riders.

Who was that masked man?The Lone Ranger was an

American long-running early ra-dio and television show created byGeorge W. Trendle. The title char-acter was a masked Texas Rangerin the American Old West, whogallops about righting injustices,usually with the aid of a cleverand laconic Native Americancompanion named Tonto, and hishorse Silver.

This was by far the highest-rat-ed television program on the ABCnetwork in the early 1950s and itsrst true hit.

The rst 78 episodes wereproduced and broadcast for 78consecutive weeks without anybreaks or reruns. Then the entire78 episodes were shown again be-fore any new episodes were pro-duced. All were shot in Utah andCalifornia. The last new episodeof the series was broadcast June6, 1957, and the series ended Sep-tember 12, 1957

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Dont look a gift

Horse in themouthDear Karlen,Could you please tell us where

he saying Dont look a gift horsen the mouth comes from. Weave had a few ideas, but are sureone of them are correct.

Dear JoAnn,Many thanks for your question.

m happy to shed a little light.

As it pertains to horses weave a myriad of expressions rang-ng from gift horses to horses of aifferent color to the ever commonorse sense.

As it pertains to the latter(horse sense) we can thank our

estern cowboys. As it pertainso different colored horses, we canhank William Shakespeare (prob-bly not for coining the phrase, butertainly for popularizing it via his

lay Twelfth Night).

But as it pertains to gift horsesand their mouths, references trace

as far back as 400A.D. when St. Je-rome noted this time honored wayof determining a horses age (i.e.tooth inspection) and coupled itin proverbial commentary on giftsand gratitude. As teeth can helpapproximate a horses age, the ex-pression Dont look a gift horsein the mouth simply meant, if agift, be grateful. Monetary valueis irrelevant. (Kinda like gettingdiamond earrings from your boy-friend and taking them for apprais-al to see how much he paid.) Suchgestures speak less to the spirit ofthe gift, and more to its crass mon-etary value (or lack thereof).

16th century poet, John Hay-ward likewise noted the phrasein his collection of proverbs, buttheologians reference St. Jeromesintroductory remarks in his trans-lation of the New Testament bookof Ephesians (wording for whichsaid A given horses teeth are not

inspected which is not exactly the

way we say it today, but it clearlyreferences the same).

Regardless, the phrase makesuse of the notion that a horsesgums recede as it ages (meaningthe longer the tooth, the older thehorse),which nets us another hors-ey favorite: long in the tooth!

HobnobbersTis a country of hobnobbers,

and last weekend was a hobnob-bers delight!

Yes, its true. I ventured forthto England to be on hand for thatmagical moment when Will andKate gave that kiss and waved theirqueen-ish wave from their balconyoverlooking the throngs. However,it was not at Buckingham Palacethat I enjoyed said hobnobbing, in-stead, it was with commoners and

friends in a local Cambridge pubthat the whole concept came backto mind.

A word often mistaken for rub-bing elbows with the elite, in itsoriginal context, hobnobbing wasnot an elitist sport at all, but rather,about as down to earth as it gets,as the verb has more to do withyour own closest friends than itdoes with any hanging about withnobility.

Purely Brit-ish in origin, theword, hobnob,literally meansto have and havenot, or to giveand take. And asyou might imag-ine, it started intaverns of old,where giving andtaking (of ale) is

precisely what

transpired!Ever famous for their pub-

bing, our British cousins gave usthis friendly notion of socializinglocally, that in turn, gave way tohobnobbing.

Offering up toasts round byround, the custom of buyingrounds one at a time (as opposedto each individual buying his owndrink gave way to this concept ofhave and have not (as in to pay).As one had to give, and another

take, hobnobbing was an everydayaffair. And as drinks were bought

in rounds the word hobnob had asmuch to do with the giving andtaking of information as it did withthe giving and taking of beer!

So technically by denition,hobnob (the verb) came to mean todrink together which happened indroves in most every open pub asglasses everywhere were raised incelebration of a wedding truly tfor a king!

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Hi Ho Silver, Away was the catchphrase for the Lone Ranger.

The Lone Rangers mask is made from hisdead brothers vest.

The Lone Ranger never killed anyone onany of his radio or tv shows.

Kemo Sabe supposedly means soggybush in the Navaho language (kemosabe)

but according to humorist Dave Barry, KemoSabe was derived from a boys summer campin Michigan owned by the directors uncle.

There was a camp in Michigan in the 30scalled Ke Mo Sah Bee so maybe he wasnt joking .....anyway, the Tewa Indian name forfriend is kema and sabe means Apache.

Hopalong Cassidys given name was Bill,the nickname Hopalong came from Hoppygeing shot in the leg in the rst movie of

the series. When Hoppy is questioned abouthis limp he says something to the eect, Illmanage to hop along.

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Wed-Thu., June 15-16 - FLOATIN DOWN THE RIVER- Connellsville, PA - Have a 2-3 hours float down the Youghiogheny River withcustomed guides, No physical involvement and minimum of risk. Visit two FrankLloyd Wright houses on Thursday. $319.00 DBL.PP

Tue., June 21 - THE WILDS -Cumberland,OH - An excellent, trip to take the grandkids. Tour over 10,000acres of reclaimed land transformed into a habitat for many

rare & extinct animals. Ride an open-aired safari bus, tobe able to view animals up-close. Lunch at Grandville Inn.$109.00 Meal included.

Tue-Wed, June 28-29- QUILT GARDENSTOUR -Nappanee, IN - Visitmany Quilt Gardens with local step-on guide. Havea river cruise, horse drawn carriage ride, & otherarea attractions. Five meals included. $309.00 DBLPP

Wed.-Thurs., July 6-7 - TIME ONTHE FARMHammond, IN - Visit the Fair OaksDairy for a true experience of dairy farm life. Seecalves being born, cows being milked, cheese & icecream being made. Also visit Shrine of Christ Passion

& a candy factory plus other attractions. $279.00 DBL PP 4 meals included

Mon., July 11 - HARTVILLE MARKETPLACE &FLEA MARKET -Hartville, OH - Come enjoy an enjoyable trip withshopping and lunch included. $69.00

Thurs., July 14 - NEW - NUNSET BLVD -Sandusky,OH - The Little Sisters of Hoboken have been invited to sing at the HollywoodBowl. They are thrilled at the prospect until they arrive and realize that they

are booked into the Hollywood Bowl-A-Rama: a bowling alley with a cabaretlounge! Lunch included.$99.00

Fri., July 15 - CUYAHOGA VALLEY NATIONALPARK -Akron, OH - Enjoy a train ride aboard the Cuyahoga ValleyScenic Railroad, guided tour of Cuyahoga Valley National Park plus endingthe day at Akron Civic Theatre with organ music. $109.00 Meal included

Tue-Wed, July 19-23 - LANCASTER/GETTYSBURG& BALTIMORE -Enjoy PA Amish farm tour a production of JOSEPHat Sight & Sound Theatre, Longwood Gardens guided city tour of Baltimore,battleground tour of Gettysburg.

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Growing up in West Virginia, Donna SueGroves and her family would play a simple

game of counting the barn advertising signs,such as Chew Mail Pouch, See Rock City,Seven Caves, Natural Bridge and Drink RC Cola on long road trips. They would usethe different styles of barns such as Bank,Round, Crib, Tobacco as part of the automo-bile game. During vacations, she delightedin watching for the colorful geometric Hexsigns scattered throughout Pennsylvania.Her family used barn watching as an op-portunity for family discussions, a way topass the long hours riding in the car, and as

a history lesson.In 1989, as a gesture honoring her moth-er and her rural heritage along with the vegenerations of her family that have shareda love of quilting, Donna Sue promisedher mother that someday she would paint aquilt square on the side of a barn her familyowned in Adams County.

As the years passed she kept thinking

about her tobacco barn and the quilt squarethat she had promised to paint. Friends gath-ered to plan painting her monthers favoritequilt pattern on their barn. Conversation leadto the suggestion of a trail of quilt barnsthe people in Adams county might enjoy.Groves mother mentioned about 20 squaresare on a average quilt, and that number be-came the target.

The group went off to nd willing barnowners and with the enthusiasm of the

owners the project quicklytook off and Mrs. Groveswould wait another three

years for her own barn to bepainted.As the 20 Adams County quilt squares

began to appear on barns, the project spreadto other counties in Ohio, then into otherstates. Today Ohio, Iowa and Kentuckyhave over 250 in each state.

Farmers see them as a way to get peopleinto the countryside, and share the love ofthe land and as well as the love of quilting.

Many times the quilt chosen for the barn artis in tribute to a member of the farmers fam-ily. Some selected squares represent quilts

that have been in the family for generations.Others might reprsent a bit of history for thecounty or area the barn is located in. Someare even lit up at night for those traveltingthe roads after sunset.

Many counties have set up Quilt BarnDriving Tours, distributing maps markedwith the sites. Some of Ohios most popularquilt barn trails are:

Miami County: www.miamicounty.orgor call 1-800-348-8993

Champaign County: champai-gnoh.com or call 877-873-5764

Southern Ohio quilt barns:www.appalachiandiscovery.com;www.athensohio.com.

Or visit www.americanquilt-barns.com for barns across the na-tion.

Quilt designs blanket barns all over Ohio

Above: Miami County has one of the most traveledbarn trails.Right: Red School House Design - Belmont, Co. OhioLeft: Barn in Peebles, Ohio.

Above: Arrow Block Design

This Postage Stamp design can be found on a barn in Scio, OH.

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Barns of IndianaBy Gwen Gutwein

Presented by Delphos Area Art GuildOpening reception June 4, 2011 6-8:302nd foor o Delphos Postal Museum

339 N. Main St., Delphos, OhioExhibit runs June 4-June 30

Courtesy o the Ft. Wayne Museum o Art.

This exhibit o oil and acrylic paintings byrespected landscapist Gwen Gutwein, pays homage

to a disappearing aspect o the Indiana landscape:its great old barns.

Exhibit coming to Delphos Museum

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For information and for group arrangements

call 419-629-9249or visit our web site at bicyclemuseum.com

email: [email protected]

Hours: June-Aug.: M-F 11a-7p.Sat. 11a-2p; Sept.-May: M-F 11-5, Sat. 11-2

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We havemore than

350 bikes on

display.

Holmes County barn pays

tribute to music legendsOn County Road 150 in

Holmes County, near Millers-burg, you will come across thefaces of John, Paul, Ringo andGeorge gracing the sides of abarn owned by musician, paint-

er and guitar collector, RustyBaker.

You will also nd HankWilliams 10 1/2 feet wide, andJohnny Cash is a whopping 22feet high.

The majority of this paint-

ing was done in the summer of2005, but the project is still awork in project.

Landscaping around the barnis planned to complement themuscial scene, complete with a

propane tank painted to resem-ble a yellow submarine.

Baker is thrilled with thehundreds of visitors who hjavestopped by to look at the barnand share their love of music,and art.

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ArtRageous on Main - Peony FestivalWeekend/Downtown Van Wert / 11 a.m. - 9.m.

The 3-day event begins at 11 a.m. June 3and continues 11 a.m to 9 p.m. June 4.

Craft Show & Garage Sales /Van WertCounty Fairgrounds/9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Quilt Show/Van Wert County Fair-rounds/5 - 8 p.m. on June 3 and also Noono 4 p.m. on June 4.

The Van Dells in Concert/Downtownountain Park/7 p.m.

Off-Road Challenge/Van Wert County

Fairgrounds / 8 p.m. - 1 a.m.Beginning at 8 p.m.. crowds can enjoy a

Tuff Truck competition, followed by a con-cert featuring local artists, Double Kik. Alsooffered noon to 1 a.m. on June 4.

June 3 - 5

St. Gerard FestivalFriday: 5 p.m. - midnight

Saturday: noon - midnightSunday: noon - 10 p.m.Location: St. Gerard Church/School,

240 W. Robb Ave., Lima.Thunder Road Rod Run Car Show

Registration at 8 a.m. Gates open to the

public at 9 a.m.Location: Allen County Fairgrounds,

2750 Harding Hwy., Lima. Admission forspectators is $5, children under the age of12 are admitted free.

June 4

3rd Annual Van Wert City Run / SmileyPark/ 8 a.m.

Last years City Run attracted more than14For more information, contact the VanWert Area Convention and Visitors Bureauat 419-238-9378.Annual Van Wert Peony Festival Parade

At 5 p.m. the annual Peony parade willstep off down Washington Street.Peony Festival Garden Tour/Various Lo-cations/10 a.m. - 3 p.m.50th Annual Jubilee Flower Show/VanWertCounty Fairgrounds/1 - 5 p.m. and 11a.m to 4 p.m. June 5.

Barns of Indiana Exhibit/Delphos Mu-seum of Postal History/6 - 8:30 p.m.

The Delphos Area Art Guild will hostBarns of Indiana, a collection of 50 oilpaintings by Gwen Gutwein. Her collectionof these historic barns are on loan from theFort Wayne Museum of Art. She traveledover 50 Indiana counties and sought outthe historic barns and painted on location topreserve the essence of time and place. Theopening reception takes place at 6 p.m. dur-

ing which the Guild will also be unveilingand dedicating the ceramic collage piece ofartwork made by members and communitywhich commemorates both historical sitesand present-day images that make up theSpirit of Delphos.

June 10-11

Pork Rind Heritage Festival in downtown

Harrod. June 12Cake Walkin Jazz Band Concert /Stadi-um Park - Delphos /6 p.m.

June 17After Midnight in Concert / DowntownFountain Park / 7 p.m.

The group After Midnight brings toFountain Park all the fabulous Seventies a-vors from the epic grandeur of Kansas, Styxand Journey to the glorious melodies of KCand the Sunshine Band and the Bee Gees.

June 17-18

Relay for Life of Delphos will be heldfrom 5:30 p.m. Friday through 11:30 a.m.Saturday at Jefferson High School on StateRoute 66.

Womens Weekend 2011 with ThelmaWells Friday: 6:30 p.m., Saturday: 8:30a.m.

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Individual disability income insuranceolicies are available with various featuresnd options, and may be more affordable

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Again, insurance can be a valuable toolfor reaching your goals in this stage of life.Lets say you are a family with two wageearners and you depend equally on both

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Giving back and leaving your legacyIn later years, you may wish to leave as-

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The request on the bridalshower invitation was simple.It read: Please bring a recipecard with your favorite recipefor the bride!

Now, this request was in no

way meant to be intimidating.It was not supposed to causeits recipient to feel faint, orsick to her stomach, or wantto reach for a pint of cookiedough ice cream.

But it did. Because the re-cipient was me. And I amrecipe averse. I just dontcook much.

I have absolutely no cook-ing credibility with newbrides (or anyone else for that

matter).How can I legitimately pro-

vide a bride with something wonderful when the recipes Ireceived for my bridal shower are in their original recipebox in my cupboard? Of the recipe options I received,Ive made the Puppy Chow, the fudge and somethingelse chocolate. If it has too many ingredients (i.e. morethan ve); if I cant pronounce it (Chicken Francese withGemolata? What??); or if its low-fat or low-calorie (whywould I want to go to all the trouble of cooking some-thing like that??) its immediately rejected.

I wish things were different. I collect/ hoard recipeswith the best of them. When a special newspaper sec-tion is published in the local paper I review it with glee,circling the recipes Id like to try. They all sound so goodthat the entire publication goes in the recipe drawer withthe fantasy that someday I will actually open the recipe

drawer and begin cooking creatively and furtively for myfamily and friends. That has yet to happen in 24 years.Ive moved twice and the recipe drawer contents havemoved with me, quite undisturbed. I have purchased FourIngredient cookbooks, with the hope that the promise ofminimal effort would lure me into cooking nirvana. Thebooks look brand new after 10 years. Ive enthusiasti-cally purchased a home party cake/cookie decorator withmultiple decorator tips to add beautiful air to mycreations. (Im not kidding-- I recently read this de-scription on the unopened box I found while cleaning outmy cabinets). My mom has tried to jumpstart my cook-ing genes by giving me several church lady cookbooks

of tried and true, no-fail recipes. But nothing works. Iremain the anti-cook.

My husband proclaims that the recipe drawer is primereal estate in our kitchen and I should pitch the uselesscontents and replace them with something more func-tional. Like restaurant take-out menus. I protest, sayingas soon as my life slows down I am going to be one ofthose women who not only watches Rachael Ray, sheleaves Rachael Ray in the dust! Skeptical that I will whipup todays feature of Argentinean Mixed Grill, he rollshis eyes and leaves the room.

So for now, the brideto-be will just have to surmisethat I forgot to include a fabulous, crowd-pleasing reci-pe for her as she opens my gift of bath towels and bedsheets.

But then again...there is always the Puppy Chow!

By Mary Beth

Weisenburger

By Paul NiemannA couple weeks ago,

there was a story out of Indiathat the last typewriter fac-tory has just shut its doorsfor good. The reason?

Typewriters are becom-ing obsolete since mosttyping is now done on acomputer. It turns out thatthe story wasnt entirelyaccurate, as there are a few

companies that still makeelectric typewriters.

Back in 1956, a ladynamed Bette Nesmith worked as a typist for abank. She wasnt a very good typist, though, andfound herself erasing her frequent mistakes witha pencil eraser. When her employer switchedover to electric typewriters, she could no longererase her mistakes on the new type of ribbon, soshe set out to invent a product that would allowher to paint over her mistakes. Bette created theinvention of Liquid Paper, which was originallyknown as Mistake Out, to help her in her job.

Bette experimented with many differentcombinations of ingredients until she found theright formula. Later, after she had already begunselling bottles of her Liquid Paper, she was redfrom her job. The ring turned out to be a bless-ing, though, as it enabled her to devote all of hertime to her Liquid Paper business. Sales beganto skyrocket and, in an attempt to ll the de -mand while keeping her costs down, Bette had

her son, Robert, help her llthe bottles of Liquid Paper.

By 1975, her company,the Liquid Paper Corpora-tion, employed 200 peopleand produced 25 millionbottles of Liquid Paper thatwere sold in 31 countries.She later sold her companyto Gillette for $47 millionplus royalties.

I dont mean to change

the subject, but back in1997, the 1960s pop band,The Monkees, staged their

30th Anniversary Reunion Tour. Only three othe original four band members participated.Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz and Peter Torkinson,a.k.a. Tork, were all there, but what happenedto the fourth Monkee? Why would he skip theirreunion tour?

Could it be because the missing Monkee wasin much better nancial shape than the otherMonkees? If so, how did he become wealthierthan the others?

Remember when I mentioned that Bette Ne-smiths son, Robert, helped her ll the bottleswith Liquid Paper in the 1950s?

Robert is his rst name, but he goes by hismiddle name of Michael. You probably remem-ber him as Michael Nesmith, guitarist for TheMonkees. You know Bettes boy.

Congratulations youve just solved theCase of the Missing Monkee.

The case of the missing Monkee

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Poppytown Puppet Show EverydayBarnyard Express Farm Animal Entertainment Daily

Cars/Vans/Law Mowers Demo DerbySpike and the Bulldogs 50s, 60s Band

WAR Wresting Action at The Arches

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June 18Elvis Tribute Show

Doors open and dinner available A LaCarte: 6 p.m. Showtime: 7:30 p.m.

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45th Annual Willshire Days 6:30 p.m.The festival begins this evening with an

ice cream social and entertainment. Com-munity-wide garage sales and a craft andea market. Sundays events begin with apancake-and-sausage breakfast at 7 a.m.Rides, games, and concessions At 4 p.m.

the annual Willshire Days parade will be-gin.

Spencerville SummerfestDowntown Spencerville.Large car show, community-wide ga-

rage sales, rides, games, food and athleticevents.

Parade at 6:30 p.m. Saturday (And re-works at 10 p.m. on Saturday.

June 25-26

Gene Autry DaysSat: 9 a.m. - 50 pm. Sun: 10 a.m. - 3:00

p.m. Location: Hardin County Fairgroundscommunity building,

This annual Gene Autry Days is a cel-ebration in honor of The Singing Cowboy(1907 - 2007) and the cap guns manufac-tured by the Kenton Hardware Company.The show features dealers from several

states with over 70 tables of cap guns, oldtoys and western memorabilia. WesternCelebrity Look-a-likes, Ohio State Cham-pionship Fast Draw Match, Homemadefood and Amish-made pie & non-stop en-tertainment will be provided.

Admission: $5. Under 12 Free.June 30-July 3

Old Fashioned Farmers Days / Van WertCounty Fairgrounds

Antique tractors & machinery, crafts,a ea market, threshing demonstrations,

a working sawmill, food vendors, animalland, a car show, mule & donkey show,the Western Ohio Garden Tractor Pull-ers, antique car racing, an antique tractorpull, corn shredding, a Quilt & Needle artshow, and a trading post. Thursdays spe-cial attraction is a car show from 4-7 p.m.,including music and games from the 50s.There is an admission charge of $3 per dayper person or a 3-day pass purchased in ad-vance for $7.



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