Apple Festival 2014

29th Annual

Oct. 4 & 5, 2014

Apple Festival

of Kendallville

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Apple Festival of Kendallville SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Parking $5.00 at Fairgrounds.

Free Shuttle Service.

ATM on site.

All Festival activities held at Noble County Fairgrounds this year.

OCTOBER 4 & 5, 2013 • SATURDAY: 9 AM - 6 PM • SUNDAY: 9 AM - 5 PM Join the fun at the Noble County Fairgrounds, US 6, Kendallville Visit us at facebook.com/applefest or www.KendallvilleAppleFestival.com for festival information and updates.

ENTERTAINMENT • CONTESTS • PRIMITIVE AREA • ANTIQUES & COLLECTIBLES FOOD • CRAFTS • CHILDREN’S ACTIVITIES • DEMONSTRATIONS

Roaming the grounds: Johnny Appleseed & Abe Lincoln Saturday & Sunday

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9 AM

Applesauce Quartet SR

9 AM

Frailey Family OP

10 AM

Drop the Dawg OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

10 AM

Applesauce Quartet SR Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

11 AM

Applesauce Quartet SR Johnny Appleseed FH

11 AM

Abe Lincoln SR Applesauce Quartet OP Johnny Appleseed FH

12 Noon

Wes Linenkugal Musicians OP Wild Rose Moon FH

12 Noon

Frailey Family SR Wild Rose Moon FH

1 PM

Drop the Dawg SR

1 PM

Abe Lincoln OP

2 PM

Inclognito Cloggers OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

2 PM

Inclognito Cloggers OP Hastey Pudding Puppets FH

3 PM

Wes Linenkugal SR Johnny Appleseed FH

3 PM

Applesauce Quartet SR Johnny Appleseed FH

4 PM

Applesauce Quartet OP Wild Rose Moon FH

4 PM

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Inclognito Cloggers OP Drop the Dawg SR

Frailey Family SR Inclognito Cloggers OP Wild Rose Moon FH

RAISE-A-RUCKUS SHOW ARENA

OP = Open Prairie SR = Settler’s Roost FH = Dekko Little Pioneer Stage at Floral Hall

Saturday & Sunday - 10:45, 12, 1:15, 2:30, 3:45 The Raise-A-Ruckus cast will be joined by Miss Indiana on both Saturday and Sunday, and Miss Indiana’s Outstanding Teen on Saturday.

Pioneer Church Service: Show Arena - Sun. 8 AM

CONTEST SCHEDULE Festival Favorite Food - Stop by the information booth and vote for your favorite food at the Apple Festival. Winner announced at 4:00 PM, Sunday.

Sat. all day • Sun. 9 AM - 3 PM Frog Flippin’ - Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 12 PM

Apple Toss - Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 2 PM Ladies Skillet Throw - North end of Primitive area (must be in costume) Sat. 1:30 PM • Sun. 11 AM Tomahawk Throw - North end of Primitive Area (must be in costume) Sat. 2 PM • Sun. 11:30 AM

Apple Rings- Children’s area - Saturday & Sunday 10 AM

Pets are not allowed on Apple Festival grounds unless licensed as service animals.

No scooters, bicycles, skateboards, roller blades allowed on Festival grounds.

For Additional Information Contact:

Kendallville Park & Recreation Dept.

211 Iddings Street, P.O. Box 516, Kendallville, IN 46755 • Phone 260-347-1064

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Apple Festival a volunteer effort

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KENDALLVILLE — Hundreds of volunteers plan, organize, oversee, set up, direct traffic, greet visitors, hand out brochures, take in parking fees, prepare, cook, bake and sell the food, play music, dance, sing and entertain the masses, and clean up afterward.

They’ve been doing it for 28 years, and in the weeks leading up to, and including, the festival weekend, they will do it again.

Welcome to Noble County’s biggest fall event: the 29th-annual Apple Festival of Kendallville at the Noble County Fairgrounds, with its pioneer theme.

“It’s a lot of work, but it’s a lot of fun,” said Pat Young, this year’s festival president.

Planning for the festival actually begins in February each year when the organizing See FESTIVAL page 4

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The 2014 Apple Festival of Kendallville committee met throughout the year to plan and prepare this year’s festival. Shown from left are: seated, Kathy Young, festival coordinator Amanda Taylor, Jenny Cummins and Nichole Hoyt; second row, Darlene Gisel, Cheryl Mapes and Judy Hart; third row, festival president Pat Young, Lou Anne Pillers, Barb Kelly and Don Leighty; fourth row, Craig Munk, Todd Campbell, Carson Roberts and Tom Jansen. Absent from photo were: Hatem Ali, Judy Burlew, Sandra and Howard Hodge, Sheree Lunk, Howard Mapes, Barbie and Kevin Schlegel, Jessica Schoof and Donald and Lorilee Ward.

Apple Festival offers fun for everyone The air’s crisper in the mornings and the leaves have started their gradual transformation to glorious golds and reds.

It’s all prelude to one of the fall’s most anticipated events: the Apple Festival of Kendallville.

Now in its 29th year, the Apple Festival attracts tens of thousands annually to the Noble County Fairgrounds. But it wouldn’t happen without a lot of behind-the-scenes hard work by the festival’s committee and scores of volunteers.

This special section, prepared by KPC Media Group Inc. staff and with the assistance of the Apple Festival committee, offers a look at the event’s

attractions. Among them: the crafters selling their unique handmade items; the depiction of 19th-century life in the Primitive Area; the children’s activities.

And, of course, the food.

The Apple Festival will take place exclusively at the Noble County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Oct. 4, and Sunday, Oct. 5. Parking will be available at the fairgrounds for $5, and at the Fairview Plaza Impact Institute, 504 Fairview Blvd., where a shuttle bus will transport attendees to the event.

Read through this section to get a taste of what the Apple Festival of Kendallville has to offer. And then come out and experience the fun yourself.

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committee gathers to review the previous year’s festival and look at ways to improve the experience for festivalgoers.

Festival coordinator Amanda Taylor is the only paid employee. It’s her job throughout the year to arrange participation by vendors, entertainers and nonprofit organizations, account for expenses and revenue, and present an annual report to the Kendallville Park Board. All financial transactions pass through the Kendallville Park and Recreation Department.

Everyone else associated with the festival is a volunteer.

The festival is Saturday, Oct. 4, from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m., and Sunday, Oct. 5, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Parking at the fairgrounds is $5 with entry through the Fair Street gate. All festival activities will held at the fairgrounds this year.

Parking is also available at the east end of Fairview Plaza east of the fairgrounds. A free shuttle bus service will operate from a bus stop north of the Fairview Plaza Impact Institute building to the fairgrounds and

back.

There is no parking and no shuttle bus service this year at East Noble High School and the No-Sag parking lot on Allen Chapel Road. There is no shuttle bus service to the downtown business district.

Free entertainment is scheduled all day both days on the Open Prairie stage, Settlers Roost and the Dekko Little Pioneer Stage in Floral Hall.

“Abe Lincoln and Johnny Appleseed will roam the grounds both days,” Young said.

Free performances of the East Noble theater and music departments’ popular “Raise A Ruckus” cabaret will be in the Show arena Saturday and Sunday at 10:45 a.m., 12 noon, 1:15 p.m., 2:30 p.m. and 3:45 p.m. Miss Indiana will be featured both days, and Miss Indiana’s Outstanding Teen will perform in Saturday’s shows.

Then there’s the food.

“We have several new foods this year in addition to the usual favorites,” Young said.

Cheese balls, beef brisket, cupcakes, pork cracklings and cheddar bites will join crispy fried apple fritters, hot Brunswick stew, warm apple dumplings and ice cream, chewy caramel apples, hot ham and beans,

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cornbread, apple cider, apple pie, fruit kabobs dipped in chocolate, fudge, pulled pork sandwiches, baked potatoes, haystack potatoes and cheese, corn dogs, fried bologna sandwiches, pork tenderloins, curly fries, hot chocolate, caramel corn, pancakes, pork burgers, vegetable beef soup, hot chicken sandwiches, beef and noodles, and on and on. Forget the calorie counter; loosen the belt and enjoy the food made on site.

More than 100 crafters offering handmade items for sale that make excellent holiday gifts will fill three buildings just north of the Show Arena.

Thirty antiquers will offer their wares in the antique building, and demonstrations of old-time skills like spinning and weaving wool, candle dipping, quilting, wood carving and sheep shearing will be in the Log Cabin and the building just north of the Show Arena.

“The Picture Lady and more food vendors will set up in the area west of Floral Hall,” Young said. The Picture Lady takes photos of visitors in period costumes.

The Primitive Area southwest of Floral Hall is where visitors can watch blacksmiths at work and barter for handmade items like wood toys, beaded jewelry, scrimshaw, dream catchers and leather goods.

Civil War re-enactors will set up camp nearby and fire the cannon signaling the beginning and end of each festival day.

Contests will include the ladies’ skillet throw and tomahawk throw near the Primitive Area, and in the Children’s Area kids can try frog flippin’ and tossing apples.

Visitors should pick up an Apple Festival of Kendallville brochure with its map of the fairgrounds and lists of the various booths and activities.

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Artists, crafters look forward to Apple Festival

BY PATRICK REDMOND predmond@kpcmedia.com

KENDALLVILLE — Rain or shine, Linda Renner will be at this year’s Apple Festival of Kendallville. It’s one of her favorite events of the year.

Renner is a Fort Wayne-area artist.

She sculpts and sells dough and clay figurines and ornaments. And like most of the vendors at the annual Apple Festival, Renner has been coming here for long, long time. So many years, in fact, she said can’t remember when she first started coming.

“Oh my gosh, I really don’t even know,” she said. “It’s been at least 20 years, might even be 25.”

Renner is one of a hundred vendors who will be on hand again this year for the Apple Festival. And for the vast majority of those vendors, this won’t be their first Apple Festival, said crafts coordinator Darlene Gisel. Gisel said experience has taught the members of the Apple Festival committee that 100 vendors is exactly right number of vendors for this show.

“We hold the lid at 100 vendors.

We have for the last 10 years,” she explained.

Visitors to this year’s festival can once again expect to find many of their favorite artists, such as Renner, and crafters. Gisel said the festival committee has have worked hard, examining hundreds of potential vendors and

looking for just the right combination.

“We’ll have sewn items, needlework items, woodwork, painted items, ceramics, hand-dipped candles, knit items, all different kinds of handmade jewelery, children’s ware. We have loomed rugs, wearable art, doll clothes and hand-thrown clay items, to name a few,” she said. “It’s an extensive list.”

Renner said she’s returning because the Apple Festival is one of the most important shows she attends all year.

“It’s a really great event,” she explained. “The food, the music, the atmosphere. It’s a great place and it really draws a crowd, rain or shine.”

That is a sentiment echoed by other artists who will be setting up a booth at this year’s festival.

“It’s an important show for me,” said Sue Scamihorn, an artist who works in clay. “The first time we visited, years ago, we weren’t vendors. We just wanted to check it out. And it was pouring down rain, and still, there were still crowds of people. I just thought, ‘Wow, this is pretty amazing.’

“People really care about this event and they come in spite of the weather.

People show up. It’s a fun atmosphere, and there’s lots of great food and vendors.”

While Gisel admitted poor weather can dampen the festival, it never stops it.

“The weather is a huge, huge factor,” she said. “Some people don’t always

want to come out in snow, sleet or rain.

But others, they still come, despite the weather.”

The vendors say one of the things that makes the Apple Festival such a big draw is its commitment to handcrafted items.

“Handcrafted, that’s what we’re looking for, handcrafted items,” Gisel said. “I always get a lot of calls from people who have mass-produced items they’d like to sell at the festival, but the Apple Festival is about educating people about the pioneer roots of the Kendallville area. So we’re only looking for handcrafted items.”

Each year, Gisel said, several vendors and booths are disqualified and asked to leave the fairgrounds. Renner said while the rules for vendors can sometimes seem strict, those rules help ensure the festival stays true to its mission and continues to be a crowd favorite.

“They’re very strict about things being handmade, and that helps keep the quality of the show up,” Renner said.

“All the imported stuff has really hurt our business, so I really appreciate this show and how strict it is. We’re making making stuff by hand. We can’t compete again those imports.”

Renner also said the show is timed perfectly to help her and other artists and crafters sell many of the items they make.

“I make dough ornaments and polymer clay figurines,” she said. “I sell a lot of everything at this show. I sell a ton of Christmas ornaments. And Halloween things, too. I make a lot of fall and Halloween figurines, and these are huge at Kendallville because of the time of year.”

The Apple Festival’s strict attention to detail apparently works. Gisel estimated nearly 40,000 will attend the festival this year. That big crowd is just what the vendors hope for.

“It’s nice to have a show you never have to worry about whether a crowd is going to show up,” Renner said.

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Sky Hammer, 13, of Fort Wayne prepares to throw his knife toward a large target during the tomahawk throw contest in the Primitive Area at the Apple Festival of Kendallville.

BY BOB BUTTGEN bbuttgen@kpcmedia.com KENDALLVILLE — A depiction of pioneer life in 19th-century Indiana would not be complete, or accurate, without an area that highlights the primitive aspect of that period in our country’s history.

At this year’s Apple Festival of Kendallville, the Primitive Area will allow visitors a chance to see just how rough their forefathers had it as they carved out a new nation.

At this year’s festival, the Primitive Area will feature exhibits by nearly two dozen people who have a good grasp of the ruggedness that was pioneer life. In adddition, the area will showcase two competitions that should provide a unique form of entertainment for some of the thousands who come

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The ladies skillet throw will take place on the north end of Primitive Area both days. The throwing starts at 1:30 p.m. Saturday and 11 a.m. on Sunday. It’s open to any woman who wants to demonstrate her ability to pick up a cast-iron skillet and fling it as far as possible. The only catch is that competitors must be in pioneer costume to participate.

That feat of strength will be matched by one taking different skills, the tomahawk throw. Also in the north end of the Primitive Area, the contest will take place at 2 p.m. Saturday and 11:30 a.m. Sunday. Again, those taking part must be in period costume.

Those are just two of the many things to see in the always Popular Primitive area of the festival.

As always, the Primitive Area will be on the west side of the Noble County Fairgrounds near the first-aid station and the Open Prairie Stage, said Dr. Tom Jansen, the Kendallville chiropractor who organizes the popular area each year at the festival.

More than 20 demonstrators will be showing their wares and talents, from fresh-harvested honey to woodcarving to blankets.

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Among those who have registered as exhibitors for the Primitive Area are: • Cindy Howard, Majencia honey; • Jerry Cox, wooden toys, kids’ jewelry; • Joe Piliszko, journals, primitive jewelry, furs, books, beads; • Jerry Kooi, horns, books, beads, leather, flint; • Mike Beathe, guns, knives, axes, hawks, clothing, pottery; • John Bennett Jewelry, beads, fur, leather; • Mike Fosnaugh, blanket trader, beads, leather bags, jewelry; • Eugene Berkey, woodcarver, scrimshaw; • Cathi Sparks, leather and beaded items, dream catchers; • Jacquie Astling, kid’s toys, candy, buffalo jerky, lye soap, tallow candles; • Craig Leitch, blanket trader; • Bill and Patti Blanchard, furs, jewelry, wooden shoes, dishes, hawks, knives; and

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• George and Josh Clark, blacksmiths.

Many of the campers in the Primitive Area will be cooking a variety of foods over open fire. Stews, roasts, vegetables, desserts, breakfast, lunch and dinner can be found.

Most of those camping out under pioneer conditions invite festivalgoers to stop in and ask questions and learn a little Indiana history while they are in the area. he primitive area will be in the same area as usual. We have a few people coming back that could not be with us last year. Highlights include our fresh honey, George and Josh Clark our resident blacksmiths, many hand made items of the fur trade era, as well as beads, trinkets and leather items.

Ladies skillet toss (must be in costume), Saturday at 1:30 and Sunday at 11:00 Tomahawk Throw (must be in costume), Saturday at 2:00 and Sunday at 11:30 Locations for the two events are the same, near the EMT building in the primitive area

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Steven McPhail of Upland and Todd Campbell watch as visitors pass by the Primitive Camp at the Apple Festival of Kendallville Saturday.

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Members of the Applesauce Quartet, from left, Sam Baker, Garth Coons, Morris Barker and Fred Inniger, sing “Seven Little Girls Sitting in the Back Seat” during a performance.

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KENDALLVILLE — The Apple Festival of Kendallville is known for its delicious food. From hot apple cobbler and ice cream to chicken and noodles, there is no shortage of feel-good food for attendees to enjoy.

It isn’t just the taste that should make you feel good. Many of the organizations that sell food at the festival are raising money for worthy causes.

The haystack potatoes sold by the East Noble Band Boosters are an area favorite.

“This is more than just a fundraiser for us. It is a tradition,” said East Noble Band Boosters President Cindy Maxwell.

She said the organizations uses the proceeds raised at the Apple Festival to help pay for props, guard uniforms, flags and competition fees.

The Kendallville and Brimfield Lions clubs work together on a booth that makes the ever-popular ham and beans with cornbread. They also sell soft drinks, water, coffee, hot chocolate, hot spiced cider, lemonade, iced tea and cold cider.

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According to Harold Sollenberger, a Lions Club member, the money the club raises goes into its main fund, which in turn goes toward individual eye health.

“Anything we can do to help improve individual eyesite is our primary focus,” he said. “After that, we donate to local organizations like sports teams, schools, parks and city organizations. We also give out several scholarships each year to East Noble seniors.”

While you enjoy your apple friters, apple cider, sliced apples with caramel, apple pies, deep fried apple slices with powdered sugar, apple salsa with cinnamon chips, apple cobbler, apple syrup, turtle caramel apples, apple butter and good, plain apples, know that you are also helping people, organizations, schools and churches in your community with your purchase.

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KENDALLVILLE — Two of the regular activities in the Children’s Area of the Apple Festival of Kendallville have a new sponsor this year, and they’re working in support of scholarships.

The North Side Elementary School PTO is working the tin punch and clay hands-on projects at the festival Saturday and Sunday, said Stephanie Ross of the PTO. This is the organization’s first year to be involved with the festival, she said.

The PTO is working in support of the Kim Hartman Scholarship Fund, Ross said.

Many favorites from past years will be back in the area, including the rope bridge and maypole swing by Boy Scout Tropp 103, the buzz saw (worked by adults only) and fans by Girl Scouts, and candle dipping by McCoy Family Candles.

Crosspointe Family Church of the Nazarene will help young people make corn husk dolls, while the same church’s youth group helps them with necklaces.

Bridgeway Evangelical Church’s apple bowling also will return.

The Noble County 4-H Horse & Pony Club will again offer horse and pony rides during the festival, while the Noble County Beef Club will bring back its popular straw maze.

Contests for children also will be held.

The apple rings contest will take place at 10 a.m. each day, frog flippin’ at noon each day and the apple toss at 2 p.m. each day.

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