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Section Volume 16, Issue 42
Hamilton K-8 School Fall Festival offers up good old-fashioned fun
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Barbara Bradford celebrates turning 94 years young Jodi Thomas ANZAEDITOR@REEDERMEDIA.COM
Oct. 5 was Barbara Bradford’s 94th Birthday and friends and family gathered at the Claim Jumper to celebrate the occasion with one of Anza’s most recognizable women. see page A-4
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Gold Star Mother shares the pain of losing a son Jodi Thomas ANZAEDITOR@REEDERMEDIA.COM
Gold Star Mother Donna Schumacher shared that she still misses her son, Robert Pearcy during a ceremony Sunday, Sept. 25, in her honor at the Anza VFW. Jodi Thomas photo see page A-5
Hamilton School kindergartener Victoria Pierce, 5, daughter of Ericka Pierce proudly points to one of her classes’ pumpkin decorating project for the Fall Festival. Each school class decorated pumpkins that were up for auction at the Festival. Miss Bishop and Miss Grant are the school kindergarten teachers. Parents who bid the highest for the class pumpkins received the decorated pumpkins and book that would help encourage them start a home library for their children, according to Hamilton K-8 Principal Carol Robilotta. See more photos on page B-2. Tony Ault photo
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Ninth annual Chili Cook-Off at Heavenly Horse Haven Jodi Thomas ANZAEDITOR@REEDERMEDIA.COM
Warm days and cool nights means fall is here and so is the ninth annual Chili Cook-Off and Presentation of Adoptable Horses at Heavenly Horse Haven.
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Anza Valley Artists show fine art in the Community Hall Tony Ault TAULT@REEDERMEDIA.COM
The doors at the Anza Community Hall swung open Oct. 1 to let residents and visitors to meet some of the community’s finest artists at the Anza Valley Artists Fall Show and Sale. The Fall show featured local artist Gary Bello who since his retirement as a general contractor, became an outstanding artist creating fine western oil painting scenes with colorful horses, cowboys, cattle and Indians. While the dozen or more local artists proudly showed off their creations musician Phoenix Featureneck played smooth jazz and popular music on his guitar and keyboard bringing an air of culture and peace to the Hall. “I think it was even better that the previous show,” said Anza Valley Artists president Rosalie Grindle
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Gary Bello, featured artist at the Anza Valley Artists Fall Show and Sale at the Community Hall, shows off Tony Ault photo his many fine western scene oil paintings during the special event Oct. 1.
Twas’ a real hoot at the Oct. 8 Anza Lions Hillbilly Festival Tony Ault TAULT@REEDERMEDIA.COM
It was a pig wrestlin’, pumpkin chuckin’, apple dunkin’, day of fun Oct. 8 at the first Anza Lion’s Club Hillbilly Festival at the Lions Club Gymkhana arena on Kirby Street. The activities at the arena tested the skill of both old and new “hillbilly” games that left many of contestants slippery with oil, covered in mud, sweaty and red faced but all wearing big grins a few missing a few teeth (fake that is). It was first time in a number of years that the Hillbilly Days event was staged by the Anza Lions. It was “time for it be revived,” said Roland Vellanoweth, Lion event announcer. The proceeds from the special event will go to the Lions Club glasses for children project,
scholarships, local nonprofits and other community events. The day under a warm sun was filled with numerous activities including a pumpkin toss using a rickety trebuchet that broke halfway through; greased pig wrestling; a hillbilly fashion show; new hillbilly bull, chicken and goat bingo games; hillbilly golf and horseshoes with wooden horseshoes and tin cans; the tug of war through the mud pit; apple dunking with a mud run; sack races; pie eating contests; the hot chili contest and others only the hillbilly mind could create. The most sought after prizes, besides a little cash in the bingo games, was a set of finely decorated grandma’s used toilet see HILLBILLIES, page A-6
Chris Vollan and Mandi Metzger, who won the Lions Hillbilly Festival Fashion Show dressed up and Ma and Pa Kettle, proudly show off their prizes, two fine “hillbilly birdfeeders” made from used toilet plungers crafted by “grandma.” Only the best for grandkids.