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Volume 15, Number 40
A bit of rain couldn’t stop ‘a really fun fair’ By Olivia L. Lawrence The Berlin Citizen
The Berlin Lions Club 63rd annual Berlin Fair finished out its three-day weekend in good form despite several rainy spells. “It went really well in spite of the weather. People still came. I was very pleased,” said Diane Dornfried Jacobson, fair president. Jacobson said numbers for attendance grew later than is typical, on each of the days, but overall the size of the crowds was about average. It rained hard the night before the fair opened and that caused a few problems in the parking lots. It rained after 9 p.m. Friday, so that was a “non issue,” Jacobson said. The weather for most of Friday was perfect for fall. Saturday it rained, but cleared by noon and “people started coming out,” she said. Sunday, when Jacobson woke up, it wasn’t raining, much to her relief — but then it started pouring. But again, the weather cleared by noon and “we had a really good crowd,” for the
Thursday, October 6, 2011
Less than five weeks to Election Day Anyone who follows politics in Berlin will tell you the campaign season doesn’t kick-off until the Berlin Fair winds down. With the town’s focus on the fair, the best move for a politician is to man his or her party’s booth at that fair and hope a few folks wander in to say hello. Of course, there have been many fundraising and organizational efforts over the summer months by Republicans and Democrats. But when it comes to tuning into candidates or pressing issues — crunch time is between now and Nov. 8 when candidates will be seen for a last hurrah at Berlin’s five polling places. In this week’s edition of The Citizen, we get the ball rolling with the first batch of candidates’ profiles which begin on page 3. We’ll be running profiles in the next two editions, too. These brief introductions will give you the See Election, next page
Berlin Fair
Citizen photos by Olivia L. Lawrence
See Fair, page 6
Pumpkin brigade Photo by Lee Roski
Bethany Covenant Church, Mill Street, is holding its annual Pumpkin Patch fundraiser now through Oct. 31, weekdays from 12 to 6 p.m. and weekends from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Pumpkins came from New Mexico as a fundraiser for the American Indians living on a local reservation. The church donates a percentage of the sales to the Feed My Starving Children organization as well as the Native American reservationists. Earlier this year, 1,200 volunteers across central Connecticut packed over a quarter of a million meals for children in Africa in cooperation with FMSC. To pay for the food that was packed, local groups need to raise over $50,000 and have, so far, raised about $33,000. The church will also hold its Harvest for the Hungry Craft fair and farmers market, Oct. 22, from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., as part of this fundraising effort.