Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Thursday, September 11, 2008
Something for Everyone II
Queens County Fair starts today
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The Gagetown area's premier agricultural fair opens its doors today at 10 a.m. at the Queens County Fairgrounds.
Lots to see at the fair: Gemstone cutter and silversmith Tony Campbell from Prince Edward Island arranges a mookite pendant in his booth at the Queens County Fair. Campbell has been coming to the fair for seven years.
As usual, the fair will be offering a cornucopia of livestock, horse shows, farm animals, live music, a bustling midway, horticulture, arts and crafts competitions, and downhome grub.
"There's something for everybody," said fair vice-president Bob McNally. "We're not straying from our format. The Queens County Fair is still an old-fashioned, country-style fair."
But that doesn't mean the fair's small army of volunteers is staying with the tried and true.
"We're sticking to our country roots, but blending the old with the new," said entertainment chairwoman Connie Denby. "We're branching out and trying to mix things up a little bit."
Part of that new blood is Moncton's Neon Highway, which will be bringing its brand of "untamed country" to the fair's outdoor stage Saturday afternoon.
Something for Everyone I
Four days of entertainment offer something for everyone
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By Yvon Gauvin
Times-Transcript
RIVERSIDE-ALBERT - Horse pulls, woodsmen's competitions, a truck rodeo, light horse obstacle races, a queen pageant, a children's variety show and an acrobatic act by former Moscow Circus performers are just part of what's in store at this year's Albert County Exhibition, which runs from Sept. 11-14.
Other than that, the only other thing that's needed is some warm weather to make it perfect, according to organizers.
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By Yvon Gauvin
Times-Transcript
RIVERSIDE-ALBERT - Horse pulls, woodsmen's competitions, a truck rodeo, light horse obstacle races, a queen pageant, a children's variety show and an acrobatic act by former Moscow Circus performers are just part of what's in store at this year's Albert County Exhibition, which runs from Sept. 11-14.
Other than that, the only other thing that's needed is some warm weather to make it perfect, according to organizers.
Something for Everyone
In doing A&E reports for Voiceprint the most personally shudder inducing sentence I've had to read... over and over and over and over is:
Something for Everyone.
In fact most events that say they offer something for everyone usually only offer somethings for a few people at best.
I haven't come across many festivals offering anything I'd particularly walk more than seven minutes to see... and then only to get them to knock off the noise.
I'm starting a feature on these... reprinted from their original Newspaper appearences.
Something for Everyone.
In fact most events that say they offer something for everyone usually only offer somethings for a few people at best.
I haven't come across many festivals offering anything I'd particularly walk more than seven minutes to see... and then only to get them to knock off the noise.
I'm starting a feature on these... reprinted from their original Newspaper appearences.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Hermitage
One of the side effects of working jobs that run through your "private" life like kudzu is a difficulty disentangling the parts of you that aren't work related. It also makes it oddly difficult to plan a vacation... partly because concentrated time off is hard to come by... partly because you forget what it is people "do" on vacations.
What do I do?
I tend to prefer being away from cities... but I'm not an outdoorsman. I like roughing it in cottages that are warm and dry and have a way to play music and keep your beer cold, but have no television or computers and you can cook your food outside and stay up until you get sleepy... take a nap in the afternoon... write until the sun comes up... drink orange juice while your feet are being tickled by the tide.
That sort of thing.
I thought about doing something like that. But the other plan... you could call it plan B... was to stay here in Fredericton and hole up in my apartment. Not just hole up, though. But renew the surroundings... make it liveable... make it a little more like that cottage scenario all year around. Not that I'm pitching out my movies or blogging anytime soon... but I wanted rooms where the focal point wasn't the outside world.
I'm getting more and more tired of the outside world, truth be told.
Anyhow this is a brief recap of the weeks move:
From Chaos
To Managed Chaos
I haven't had much of a chance to give these new rooms a spin... the two job schedule started anew this Monday. But I will... and I'll show you what I come up with.
Take that outside world.
What do I do?
I tend to prefer being away from cities... but I'm not an outdoorsman. I like roughing it in cottages that are warm and dry and have a way to play music and keep your beer cold, but have no television or computers and you can cook your food outside and stay up until you get sleepy... take a nap in the afternoon... write until the sun comes up... drink orange juice while your feet are being tickled by the tide.
That sort of thing.
I thought about doing something like that. But the other plan... you could call it plan B... was to stay here in Fredericton and hole up in my apartment. Not just hole up, though. But renew the surroundings... make it liveable... make it a little more like that cottage scenario all year around. Not that I'm pitching out my movies or blogging anytime soon... but I wanted rooms where the focal point wasn't the outside world.
I'm getting more and more tired of the outside world, truth be told.
Anyhow this is a brief recap of the weeks move:
From Chaos
To Managed Chaos
I haven't had much of a chance to give these new rooms a spin... the two job schedule started anew this Monday. But I will... and I'll show you what I come up with.
Take that outside world.
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