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Volume 10 ~ Issue 5
Sept.16, 2015
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Get Pumped for a Pumpkin Party
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here’s a big old Geauga County pumpkin party coming up, and you’re invited. Join in the pumpkinfocused family fun a of the 46th annual Huntsburg Pumpkin Festival at the intersection of State Routes 528 and 322 on Saturday, Oct. 3 and Sunday, Oct. 4. There is no entrance fee and all of the festival’s contests, entertainment and attractions are free. There’s even free parking and a free shuttle service from the well-marked parking areas to the festival grounds from 10 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. Generous donations of sponsors and the dedication of loyal Huntsburg area volunteers help cover costs. Vendors and crafters will fill two buildings near a midway lined with fabulous food stands. Pick up handmade kitchen dishcloths, pot scrubbers, winter scarves and hats, or browse for other stocking stuffers. Enter a free contest or two, such as Apple Peeling, Pumpkin Pie Eating, Bubble Gum Blowing, Rock Toss, Egg Toss, and Nail Pounding, Decorated and Carved Pumpkins. Trophies and ribbons will be awarded to the winners. This year’s attractions include Jungle Terry, antique tractors and engines, a classic car show, the Fort Huntsburg Country Band, the Cardinal School show choir the Cardinaires, The Cardinal Marching Band, a bagpipe performance by Geauga Highlanders, The Usual Suspects Band, country singer Raelynn Debevits, K-9 unit demonstrations by Geauga County Sheriff’s
Smiling Royalty on a 2010 Huntsburg Pumpkin Festival Parade float. (MP Photo/Neil Hunt) Office, and programs by The University Hospital Pet Pals and the Walnut Hill Cloggers. The pumpkin festival parade is Sunday at 2:15 p.m. A pancake breakfast is open each day from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m. featuring all-youcan-eat pancakes and Belgian waffles with sausage, orange juice, real maple syrup and a variety of hot beverages. The Fowler Milling Company’s buttermilk and pumpkin pancake mixes and Bob Evans Original Sausage Links with Natural Maple Syrup from Huntsburg maple syrup producers are served. Prices are adults, $6; seniors, $5 and
children 5 through 12, $3. Children under 5 eat for free. To burn those pancake-breakfast calories, complete the Huntsburg Pumpkin Run that starts at 9 a.m. on Oct. 4. The run traverses a scenic part of the Buckeye Trail through Headwaters Park. Registration for the Pumpkin Run begins at 8 a.m. at Grandview Golf Club parking lot. Entry fee is $15, and a free T-shirt goes to the first 50 people registered. Headwaters Park is a 96-acre reservation located in Claridon and Huntsburg Townships. The trail winds Continued on page 2
A Tax Upon You!
y son, Kevin, just started his college repay that debt load. For him it’s worth it. He career this past Monday. His goal is is gifted at teaching and relating to youth, to become a teacher, which I believe and there is no doubt in my mind that he is an excellent idea. His personality and will be successful both in college and in his talents are perfectly suited for such a choice. career. Though who could blame him if he A s m a n y were a little Americans his depressed over age, he realizes the thought that because of of immediate his particular p o s t choice of graduation career path he debt, and is required to for perhaps attend at least wondering four years of if there were college to earn some way a bachelors to begin his degree. Kevin teaching career is certainly without the n o d u m m y ; Living in France under its socialist system, whether as a h e m o r r h o i d h e a l s o renter or home owner is very taxing. (MP Photo/Blau) of a large and realizes that impending his choice of career path means that he is debt. He’s a realist, my son, but he’s also a going to graduate from college with a full dreamer. So I will now begin, for his sake intestine’s worth of debt. Perhaps before he and for yours, to present to you what could even begins his first day of teacher-hood, be another choice. Realistic or not is for you he understands that he will have to start to to decide.
There is a very good chance that within the past few months you have read an article or seen a news report about the high price of tuition for American colleges and universities, about the size of the debt that college students shoulder upon graduation, and about all the creative ways and means to forgive/forget/absolve/resolve that debt that our government is coming up with. As Americans we have grown up knowing that if we choose to go to college we will incur a great amount of debt to have that diploma; it’s not an ‘if’ question as to creating debt to pay for college tuition, it’s a ‘when and how much’ situation. According to most studies on the subject, the average indebtedness for a college graduate in 2015 is $35,000. For some, perhaps most, the debt is worth the price. For those so blessed, the field that they have chosen offers many opportunities for a career that compensates them well for the debt they have created for themselves. For others, their debt to get a diploma in a field they thought was a good idea at the time is now smothering them into choosing between macaroni and cheese dinners or Continued on page 5