Supplement to the Bulletin • Week of July 30, 2012 • Published by Lillie Suburban Newspapers, Inc.
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A 20 mph drive into the past It isn’t a high-speed car chase. The vehicles travel only about 20 miles per hour all day long. But that doesn’t mean the New London to New Brighton Antique Car Run isn’t a thrill. “It’s an endurance event, not a race,” said Judy Goepel, a board member of Antique Car Run, Inc. “The ultimate goal is to challenge these really old cars to make the 120-mile trek and cross the finish line.” Most of them do, but not all. Goepel said the tour has about an 89 percent “finish rate.” It’s a challenge, she said, because in the days these cars were made, “there was hardly 120 miles of road for them to drive on.” Jeff Amundson, the president of Antique Car Run, Inc., was once Jeff Amundson and his daughter Kelly in Jeff’s 1911 Maxwell at the tour finish line one of the unlucky non-finishers. His in New Brighton. prized old vehicle began making an
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“awful clunking” noise during the middle of the tour. One of the rings broke on the car’s pistons, and he had to shut it down for the day. “You feel kind of defeated,” he said. “But it’s better to drop out and still have the car to fix up than to blow something that can’t be fixed.” The annual Stockyard Days event, which started at the city’s centennial celebration in 1987, will begin this year on Aug. 11. It begins in the small, rural city New London and ends at the festival in New Brighton. It’s an attempt to reinforce New Brighton’s namesake ties to the English city of Brighton, Goepel said. It replicates a 100-year old event in England, in which cars travel between the original cities London and Brighton. see Cars on page 3
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The American version takes drivers along a beautiful tour of the Minnesota countryside. “It’s beautiful,” Amundson said. “You go over rolling hills, and see all kinds of lakes early in the morning. You see the beauty we’re surrounded by in Minnesota.” An average of 60 cars participate each year. They’re motivated by the tour’s scenery, and by the desire to fix up an old car and take it for a spin. But they also have loftier goals: to preserve an aspect of history that might otherwise be forgotten. The event is for true antiques. It only allows vehicles from 1908 or before, except one or two cylinder vehicles, which can be from as late as 1915. Amundson’s father was deeply interJeff Amundson, with his son Dan and granddaughter, is a tour veteran and serves as president of ACR, Inc.
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Can you create the most beautiful cow? Jackie Finney found a good use for that old holiday decoration, the mechanical reindeer whose head rises up and down like it’s eating grass. She surrounded it with paper mache, dressed it up, and turned it into last year’s Stockyard Days Create-a-Cow winner. “It was kind of fun, creating something,” she said. “We had to redo the head a little bit and make it bulkier. But me and my husband put it together, and it was fun to do.” Finney entered the contest as a way to get her granddaughters inspired to do the same thing. She said it provides a fun artand-craft activity for people of all ages, and she had noticed that fewer people were participating in recent years. “We were trying to motivate people to keep it alive,” she said. “I think last year brought it back a little bit, and that’s good!” The Stockyard Days festival began in 1981, the festival’s website says, as a way to “recall the early days of New Brighton as a center for the cattle industry including the
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Into the jaws Those who dared approach this giant inflatable shark had a great time “fleeing”
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