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The INDEPENDENT, August 16, 2000________________ ____ _____________________________ ___________________________________ ___
Elephant Garlic Festival offers aromatic events in North Plains
The third Annual Elephant
Garlic Festival is set to take
place Aug. 18-20 in North
Plains. Admission is free to the
festival grounds at the Jessie
Mays Community Center,
30975 NW Hillcrest Ave.
The festival offers a wide ar
ray of activities with concerts, a
parade and of course all of the
garlic products one can imag
ine, plus a few you’ve never
considered!
Garlic crab cakes, garlic
sausages, garlic ice cream and
even garlic lattes will be avail
able for consumption, as well
as a garlic pancake breakfast
on Saturday. Ronald MacDon
ald is scheduled to make an
Lady Braves offer
Dance/Drill Clinic
The Banks Lady Braves
Dance and Drill team will hold a
dance clinic for boys and girls
ages 3 and up.
The clinic will be held from
9:00 a.m. to 12 p.m., Aug. 16-
18, at Banks High School.
Cost is $40, and includes a T-
shirt and snack.
Clinic participants will walk
in the Banks Parade on Aug.
20th. For more information, call
Joan Vandehey at 359-3247.
appearance, as well as the
Portland Police Highland Bag
pipe Band and Highland Honor
Guard.
Live music, carnival games
and stage shows will be in full
swing to entertain and delight.
A car show will run from 10
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Saturday,
until just before the coronation
of “Mr. and Mrs. Elephant Gar
lic.” The only requirement of
this contest is a physique that
resembles the herb the festival
is named for.
Winners will preside over
the 2000-2001 Grand Festival
parade and represent the Ele
phant Garlic Festival at public
events throughout the year.
The Grand Festival Parade
will wind through town from the
North
Plains
Elementary
School, ending at the festival
grounds. Michael MacMillan
and Chris Walters are the
Grand Marshals of this year’s
parade.
Pony rides will be available
all three days of the festival.
The festival is open from
3:00 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday,
11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Saturday,
and noon to 6:00 p.m. Sunday.
Animals are not allowed at
the Elephant Garlic Festival
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
10 a.m .-3 p.m. Car show
Hogs, center stage
11:0 - Noon
Clown and Balloon art — All day
Friday, August 18
Square Dance Exhibition
3- 10 p.m. Food booths, Beer/Wine
Sunset Promenaders
11 a.m.-7 p.m. Arts & Crafts Fair
pavilion open, arts and crafts.
SUMMARY
lomber:
HEAT 1 - Jeff Brookshire, Tim
iilm an.S tan Asanovic, Dennis
irohling, Doug Trout
HEAT 2 - Mike Mastrangelo,
ay S ilas Jr.,
Greg Loomis,
Christopher West, Brian Clark
HEAT 3 - Dave Ruby, Greg
.ong, Steve Anderson, Brian
bot, Doug Younkin
MAIN - Brookshire, Mastrange
lo, Younkin, O’Neil, Loomis, Thom
son, Asanovic, Ruby, Talbot,
Krohling, Trout, Rich Dunsmire,
O ’Rear, Clark, Tom Finley, Lonnie
Finley, Long, Anderson, Silas Jr.,
Gilman, Kendall, Lee West.
Cascade Hardtops:
HEAT 1 - Dave Bax, STeve
Lemley, Bob Taube, Dan Shaw,
Dale Bake
HEAT 2 - Brandon Thomas,
pavilion open, arts and crafts.
Noon-10 p.m. Beer & Wine Garden
The Puppet Studio Presents Chuck
ieland Jazz
and Food Court open
Mott “That Shoe Guy” - 12:15-12:45,
6- 6:30 Light Hearted History Narration
Noon-4p.m. Sidekicks Bluegrass Band
2:15-2:45, and 4:15-4:45
by Jim Long
Children’s Stage Puppet Shows -
1- 1:30 p.m. Bordertown Cloggers Exhi
7- 10 p.m. Snobbish Crawfish & Wild
12:15-12:45, 2:15-2:45, and 4:15-4:45
bition
Trout
3 p.m.Car show awards presentation
1:30-2 p.m. Light Hearted History Nar
Saturday, August 19
3:15 - 3:45 p.m. Mr & Mrs. Elephant
ration by Jim Long
Garlic Contest
2- 4 p.m. Dziva Marimba Band
Plains Senior Center
4-7 p.m. Ellen Whyte and Reflex Blue
4-6 p.m. Snobbish Crawfish & Wild
10 a.m. Grand Festival Parade
7-10 p.m.Jon Koonce and the Gas
Trout
7:30 a.m.
Pancake breakfast, North
Jamboree Parade Grand Marshals Bob and Betty Curl were honored for the many years of
service they provided to children of the community as Santa Claus and a Halloween Witch.
Gerry Grossen, Tom Willie, Steve
Webb, Stanley Garboden
DASH - Bax, M ark
Thomas, Richard Nordby, Taube,
Garboden, Greg Ray, Jim Beards
ley, Bake, Bax, Lemley, Robert La-
vorico, Webb
Street Stocks:
QUALIFIER 1 -
Rich Kelley,
Bill Patraw, James Simeroth, Pete
Kelly, Nathan Morton
July
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July 2 0 -
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July 31 -
JU LY 2000
Residential Fire
Car Fire
Illegal Burn
Car Fire
MVA. Hwy 26
MVA. Sellers Rd
FMS Assist
EMS Assist
MVA, Hwy. 26
EMS Assist
MVA, Hwy. 26
MVA, Hwy 26
MVA , Hwy. 6
EMS Assist
EMS Assist
Grass Fire
EMS Assist (2!
EMS Assist
Truck Fire
MVA. Hwy. 26
EMS Assist
MVA. Hwy. 26 East
EMS Assist (2)
Barn Fire
EMS Assist
EMS Assist
Cover Station 4
EMS Assist
EMS Assist (2)
MVA, Hwy. 47/Staleys
MVA. Hwy. 26/Ftsher Rd.
MVA (2)
EMS Assist
MVA. Hwy. 26 East
Armstrong and
Bear Mountain
Wood Pellets
Linn Oil Co. - Texaco
182 N Main St., Banks
324-2622
Formerly Myron Duyck
Wood Pellet Co.
SEASONAL STOCK • GROUND COVERS • PERENNIALS
ANNUALS • HERBS • TREES • UNUSUAL PLANTS
G asoline A lley
A uto W recking
I'll fil'ill
1 -
QUALIFIER 2 -Jim m y Masure,
Don Jenner, Mike Fitzpatrick,
Dustin W ilkinson, Nathan Rolston
DASH -
Mark Bell, Nusom,
Gary Meyers, Brent Porter
MAIN -Je n n e r, M eyers, A.J.
Tipton, Nusom, Bell, Tony Cata
lano, Sonny Sayre, Bob Trout, Pa
traw, Kelley, Porter, Fitzpatrick,
Jay Silas, Don Grentz, Charlie
Weaver, Simeroth, Masure, Kelly,
Greg Smith, W ilkinson, Paul Daily,
Jeff Gilman
Everything looks impossible
for people who never try
anything.
Auto &
Truck
24 Hour
Towing
Abbreviations. EMS. Emergen
cy Medical Service; MVA, M o
tor Vehicle Accident
July
Bell,
Grossen, Willie
M AIN-Shaw, Grossen, Willie,
O’Rear, Tom Finley
DASH - Thomson, O'Neill, Tai-
Tri-City Rural
Fire District
Noon - 6p.m. Food booths, Beer/Wine
4- 6 p.m. Dr. Jazz & The Interns Dix
Results at Sunset Speedway
Results from the races at
junset Speedway on Aug. 12
ire as follows.
Sunday, August 20
C hoice
P erennials
Closed
Sun & Mon
Tues-Fri
8 am-5 pm
for gardens
of all types
54372 Nehalem Hwy. S., Vernonia
429-7581
P hra
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