QUOTE He that has no children 3 5 C brings them up well. p e r c o p y —Anonymous ONE HUNDRED TWENTY-FIRST YEAR— No. 12 CHELSEA, MICHIGAN. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 14. 1991 24 Poqes This W eek ation High for 54th Annual Chelsea Community F air The S4th Annual Chelsea Communi- Chelsea s local record label) is spon- held this year due to a lack of interest, ty Fair gets underway next Tuesday, soring a day-long Talent Discovery Layher said. Aug. 20 with the traditional Children’s Festival. Teji area bands will compete The rest of the fair will look pretty Parade and ends on Saturday with the for a top prize of $1,000 along with a much the same. annual Livestock Raffle Drawing. grant from the record company. Fairgoers will find a full house of And in between there’s something Radio station WlQB-FM of Ann Arbor product displays in the Merchants for everyone. will be on hand. Judges will be a com­ Bam. / ^ ^ More than 35,000 people are ex­ bination of local people and others in” Pugh Shows will again provide the pected for the largest community fair the music business. midway rides, games, and food. The in the state. The fair kitchen will also have a price of their ride-all-day tickets, “We’d be real happy with 40,000,’’ new manager. Area resident Ginny however, has been increased $1 to $11. said fair board secretary Maryann Wheaton will serve breakfast, lunch, Plenty of free parking will be Guenther. and dinner in the fair service center available off Old Manchester Rd. “We just hope what happened last with a wide assortment of food and south of the fairgrounds. beverages. Chelsea Athletic Boosters will staff Last year’s fair was plagued by New bleachers have been installed the main gates as one'of their primary rain, especially early in the week. in the main arena for people viewing fund-raisers of the year. Kids Day activities were virtually the motocross, demolition derby, or Ticket prices are $3 for a daily pass washed out. Tons of gravel had to be other activities. for ages 13 and up. Children under 12 hauled in to take care of mountains of Another new event will be a small are free. On Thursday, senior citizens mud on the midway. And attendance livestock auction at 6 p.m. on Wednes­ may enter free. On Friday, Ladies was down. day, Rabbits and poultry will be sold Day, women may enter for $2. Season As usual, most fair events occupy to the highest bidder in the multi­ passes are $10 for adults and $7 for the same days and times as they have purpose arena. students with a high school identifica- for years. tion card. Season pass for senior However, this year’s fair also offers A new daily horseshoe game will be citizens is $64 CHELSEA SENIOR CITIZENS, represented by Vin­ unanticipated expenses, a new fund campaign to raise some twists and turns. a part of the midway, although it will . A list of daily activities follows. cent J. Dorer, right, presented a $10,000 check to Faith in $136,000 is necessary. Co-chairs of the campaign are New to the fair will be a Thursday be run by a Dexter resident, not Pugh TUESDAY, AUG. 20 Action as part of a new FIA fund-raising campaign. Howard Holmes of Chelsea Milling Co., left, and Mary night motocross in the main arena, Shows, producers of the midway 8 a.m.-noon: exhibits entered in Because original plans for the building were expanded to Ann Merkel, center. Holmes has also given a donation to primarily featuring riders from all games and food. baked goods and cut flowers. include the senior center, and because FIA ran Into other' the campaign on behalf of his company:and himself. Washtenaw county. A dirt course of Agricultural exhibits has a new 8 a.m.-lO a.m.: exhibits entered in Jumps, turns, and pits will be con­ category for commercial producers of truck farmer/market gardener/road- structed in the main arena. That taker vegetables and flowers. It’s designed side stand class. the place of the former mud bog, to attract people who sell produce 9 a.m.: horse show, halter and which also proved to be a popular at­ from roadside stands. showmanship. Thirty Percent of traction. Cavalcade of Thrills Demolition 11 a.m.: judging of poultry. “It won’t be the kind of thing you’d Derby, unlike last year, has not had 1 p.m.: horse show, English per­ see in the Silverdome, but it should be problems finding cars for its two formance. plenty exciting,’’ said fair board nights of action on Tuesday and 5:30 p.m.: Children’s Parade. member Jeff Layher. Wednesday. However, the demo 6 p.m.: judging of rabbits. Households Owe Village On Saturday^ Picnic Horn Records, volleyball event probably will not be 7 p.m.: judging of sheep. 7:30 p.m.: demolition derby. Village manager Jack Myers was Myers said he wants to get a collec­ a reminder is mailed, a resident’s WEDNESDAY, AUG. 21 scheduled to make a proposal to tion agency involved in some of the door is tagged in three days if the bill 9 a.m.: judging of goats. accounts, but what level ofdebt would 10 a.m.: horse show, western per­ Village council last night about how to is not paid. Two days later, service is ^ r deal with more than $85,000 In delin­ be involved was not known as of press cutoff. ,Vfv. i. • formance. I quent village Utility accounts. 1 p.m.: judging of beef. time. In a related issue, Myers said he is A report to be submitted by Myers Myers also said he wants council to 6 p.m.: small livestock auction. planning to change the format of bills showed that of the 1,422 residences in consider some sort of interest charge 7 p.m.: judging of swine. mailed to residents. The familiar the village, a total of 441 owed the on past-due amounts, at least enough 7:30 p.m.: demolition derby, with post-card size bills will be replaced by village money, ranging from a couple to cover administrative costs for past- Powder Puff heat. pull-apart, re-usable envelopes. of dollars to more than $2,000. In one due notices. The village does not levy t THURSDAY, AUG. 22 case, the former Jiffy Market on late charges. It also doesn’t have a Myers said the new format, which 9 a.m .: horse show, draft horses and Sibley Rd. owes $9,826. policy regarding termination of ser­ will probably be used starting later mules; antique tractor pull. “If it was $5,000 or $10,000 I might vice for unpaid bills. this fall after the card supply runs out, 10 a.m.: judging of dairy cattle. say let’s forget it, but we’re — According-teM yers, the-City of will help the village keep tatter track 4:30 p.m.: Pedal P ower, Tractor about a lot of money,” Myers said Grand Haven adds a two percent of account information because more Pull. Monday. penalty to the next month’s bill. After printed copies are available. 6:30 p.m.: m otocross.. 7 p.m.: livestock auction. FRIDAY, AUG. 23 8 a.m.-noon: Ladies Day program. Westwood Swing Set Highlights 9 a.m .: horse show, gymkana; trac­ tor-pull,lightweight classes, 7 p.m..: selection of fair queen; trac­ tor pull, weight transfer. Final Concert in Pierce Park (Continued on page five) The Westwood Swing Set, featuring with the Toledo Symphony Orchestra. Emcee for the afternoon will be Chelsea musician Deborah “Debz” She has performed at The Ark cof­ Chelsea Community Fair Queen Rusinsky, will play the fourth and feehouse in Ann Arbor, among other Christine Dunlap. This year’s eight Skis Stolen final Concert in the Park this Sunday, venues. fair queen candidates will introduce Aug. 18 in Pierce Park. Danforth, age 91, is an Ann Arbor themselves and explain how the 1991 From-Gar-age The band blends a combination of legend. He is internationally known queen will be selected. A pair of downhill skis were stolen sounds using woodwinds, guitar, for his expertise on the folk-art instru­ Entertainment runs from 4:30 p.m. from a garage on Taylor Ln., Chelsea vocals, keyboards, and the “bones” ment “the bones.” He regularly gives to 6:30 p.m. BUD HAFNER, left, retiring electric and water superintendent, was police reported. played by Ann Arbor’s Percy Dan* seminars on their history and use as a Kiwanis Kitchen will sell sausage honored July 28 at the Chelsea Community Fairgrounds for his 22 years of ser­ The skis were stolen sometime be­ forth. Original music as well as Swing folk instrument. He has made more sandwiches, drinks, and other mun- vice. Hafner was hired July 8, 1969 as an electrician and became superinten­ tween the end of March and last week. Era classics are in the band’s reper­ than 1,800 pairs of bones and has ship­ chies. dent of tiie electric and water department on June 29,1981. He officially retired The resident said he had put them toire. ped them world-wide. Concertgoers may bring their own Jan. 18 but Is working as a consultant. Presenting a certificate and plaque are away and hadn’t had any reason to Rusinsky writes and performs her Other members of the band include village president Richard Steele, center, and village manager Jack Myers.