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September 7, 2011
Variety of art in Harvest Harvest Home Fair celebrates 152 years Home annual art show West Side art will be on display at the Harvest Home Fair. The annual art show will be up starting Friday, Sept. 9, in the barn at Harvest Home Park. There are three categories – oli and acrylic, watercolor and other media. Co-chairing the show are Jack Williams, a retired pediatrician who is a painter, and Sharon Christopherson, of Christopherson & Clark Hearing Center. “I love art, but have no talent,” Christopherson said, laughing. “I have an appreciation of art.” She’s been working on the Harvest Home art shows for about five years, and hopes to have even
more than the 100 entries that the show had last year, which was up from the year before. “Last year and this year we utilized email and have gotten in touch with all of the art groups in the city,” she said. Many artists enter every year, but seldom enter the same art work. Christopherson said some artists work all year just for this show. Judging this year will be Robert Hebenstreit, a teacher at the Art Academy of Cincinnati. “We try to have different judge each year,” she said. “Each judge looks for different aspects. It gives us a variety of art winners.” There are prizes for the top three in each category. Art work is dropped off Thursday night, judging is Friday morning, with the show running from Friday night through Sunday.
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By Kurt Backscheider • kbackscheider@communitypress.com Ben Clinkenbeard said he attended his first Harvest Home Fair before he could even walk. “I’ve been going to the fair since I was in a stroller,” he said. “It’s a tradition. It’s one of the last big events of the summer.” The Green Township resident and Cheviot-Westwood Kiwanis Club member is serving his first year as chairman of the annual Harvest Home Fair. Clinkenbeard has the honor of overseeing the event through 2013. This year’s theme is Community Affair. “It’s going great,” he said. “We’re going to have another great fair this year.” The “biggest little fair in Ohio” kicks off at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8, with the annual Harvest Home Parade. The 152nd edition of the Harvest Home Fair will then run through Sunday, Sept. 11. Clinkenbeard said the fair will include all the traditional family-friendly attractions West Siders have come to love, such as the 4-H livestock exhibits, art show, horse show, general
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exhibits, rides and stage shows. Those who want to take a chance at winning some money can place bets in a variety of games like 21card stud and Texas Hold ’em Poker. Back again this year is the Dolly and Me fashion show for young girls and their dolls. “That was a big hit last year, so we brought it back,” Clinkenbeard said. Live music is also back again this year, and fair organizers hope to draw large crowds with a Friday night concert, when local favorite The Rusty Griswolds take the stage at 7 p.m. The Menus, another popular band on the West Side, will perform at 7 p.m. on Sunday. Clinkenbeard said the fairgrounds at Harvest Home Park will be open again this year after the parade on Thursday night until 11 p.m. Tommy and Hub will perform acoustic tunes, and hot dogs and pizza will be available for $1 and beer for $2. Fair hours are 5 p.m.-11 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9; noon to 11 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 10; and noon to 10 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 11. Admission is $5 for adults. Children 12 and younger get in free. Admission for everyone is free on Saturday and Sunday until 3:30 p.m. All the money the Kiwanis Club raises at the Harvest Home Fair goes directly back to the community in the form of scholarships,
building projects and charitable giving. Throughout the years, proceeds from the fair have helped women’s shelters, area schools, Boy Scout and Girl Scout troops, local parks and recreation fields. “All the hard work pays off and it’s a really great way to give back to our community,” Clinkenbeard said. “It makes it all worthwhile.” He said the fair would not be what it is without the support of the families and neighbors who attend the event. “This has been going on for more than 150 years. That says a lot about the people and traditions on the West Side,” he said. “They continue to come back and support us every year.”
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The 152nd annual Harvest Home Fair presented by the Kiwanis Club of Cheviot-Westwood kicks off with the Harvest Home Parade at 6 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 8. The parade begins at the intersection of Harrison Avenue and Bridgetown Road and ends at Harvest Home Park on North Bend Road. Bonnie Perrino-Badinghaus, a Cheviot business owner and longtime Kiwanis member, is the grand marshal of this year’s parade. She said it’s an honor to be named the grand marshal. “There are so many Kiwanians who have done
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Sarah Kathman, a member of the county 4-H program, walked in the annual Harvest Home Parade last year with her mini-horse, Gracie. The 4-H exhibit is a traditional attraction at the Harvest Home Fair.
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