INSIDE THIS ISSUE Back To School .....................................................................A6 Classifieds..............................................................................A4 Community Calendar .........................................................A15 Healthy Times .....................................................................A11 Grabill Country Fair.........................................................A8, 9
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Grabill to sit down to dinner By Garth Snow
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The home-style meals at the Fudergong lend a special feel to the Grabill Country Fair, said Sharon Krug. Krug, who will oversee lunch and dinner meals Sept. 5-7, said visitors will savor both the food and the atmosphere. “It’s an important part of the fair because it’s more home-cooked meals instead of getting something through a window from a vendor,” she said. “We’re trying more for a home meal, where people sit down and eat it,” she said. “Some of the people come just for that, just for the Fudergong meals.” This year’s menu features beef and noodles from 5-9 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, and Friday, Sept. 6. A second option will be available during those same hours Friday, when High’s Bar-B-Q & Catering serves pork chops. From 11:30 a.m.-8
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Krug said. “Oh my, all the favorites — blueberry, rhubarb crumble, apple, cherry, pecan and peach.” She said she expects to sell 70 pies during the three-day festival.
She’s not asking anyone to throw out the kitchen sink, but Laura Rhoades suggests that homeowners take a close look at aging cleaning products beneath the kitchen sink before Sept. 7. Rhoades is the community education coordinator for the Allen County Solid Waste Management District, which will repeat the annual Tox-Away Day program from 9 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. that first Saturday in September. Locations have yet to be confirmed. Rhoades said drop-off points will be announced Aug. 26 at acwastewatcher.org. Residents from throughout Allen County may drop off potentially harmful chemicals. Minimal fees apply. “A lot of people don’t really think about what they have under their kitchen sink,” she said, “and there are a number of things that when you don’t need them anymore, they need to be disposed of responsibly.” For instance, Tox-Away will accept household cleaners, oil-based paint and supplies, health and beauty products, household batteries, lead-acid batteries, pesticides and herbicides, rodent killers, fertilizers, automotive products, propane tanks (limit three per household), pool chemicals, mercury or items that contain mercury, and fire extinguishers. Tox-Away will not accept latex paint, radioactive material, industrial hazardous waste, steel drums, explosives, medications or tires. See a full list of eligible and ineligible products on the website. The one-day event collected more than 43,000 pounds of household hazardous waste in 2012. “This is put together by the Allen County Solid Waste
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Children enjoy the watermelon eating contest at the 2012 Grabill Country Fair. This year’s contest begins at 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 5, downtown Grabill.
p.m. Saturday, Sept. 7, the menu features chicken-halves cooked by High’s. Krug said the Fudergong will serve about 200 pork chops and about 800 chicken halves. “We always sell out. It’s super popular,” she said.
“We’re going to have the normal sides — potato salad, cole slaw, baked beans, that kind of thing,” she said. “And our other claim to fame is our pies, and we get that from Dutch Heritage in Spencerville,”
Park doubles as classroom By Garth Snow gsnow@kpcnews.net
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Ducks scurry toward the pond at Moser Park in New Haven, where nature lessons change with the seasons.
is not required. The park also features a baseball diamond and basketball courts, plus restrooms and a pavilion. A disc golf course winds through the woods. Children fish from a pier or from the banks of a pond, where carp scour the surface for food. Cali Mason, 3, enjoys fishing from the bank.
Her grandmother, Cheryl Mason, brings along a washcloth, because Cali usually catches “slimy little catfish.” Cheryl Mason said Cali once startled a harmless snake near the pond — “We’re not going back there today.” And Cali once saw a deer near the See PARK, Page A2
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Moser Park has a nature center inside its parks classroom, and many more nature lessons darting and hopping through the nearby pond and woods. Sometimes, the outside animals become the objects of attention in the classroom. Nature interpreter Jody Leamon leads indoor classes twice a week at the nature center in the park, at 601 W. Main St. At 10 a.m. Tuesdays, preschoolers and their siblings gather for a 45-minute program. “It’s a different nature-related program every week,” Leamon said. “It might be a hike, or craft or activity.” Sunday Fun Day classes are open to all ages, and operate from 1-5 p.m. each Sunday, with nature-related crafts and activities. All classes are free, and registration
Tox-Away Day on Sept. 7 to accept list of chemicals