Sunday, September 05, 1999
Monroe CityFest offers crafts, food, fun
Annual event next weekend
BY JANET C. WETZEL
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MONROE — Before the morning dew was even off the grass Saturday, the sweet smell of cooking apples wafted through the air at the Community Park.
Members of the Monroe Historical Society were cooking up huge batches of apple butter over an open fire to sell at next weekend's fourth annual CityFest.
The group spent hours Friday peeling about six bushels of apples to make about 100 pints of apple butter for the festival, which runs next Friday through Sunday.
“It averages out to cost us about $10 a pint to make it, and we sell it for $3 a pint,” laughed Mayor Elbert Tannreuther, whose wife, Joyce, is president of the historical society.
“But we have a great time. It's a lot of work, but a lot of fun. And people love the apple butter,” Mrs. Tannreuther said.
About 5,000 people are expected to attend.
Hours are 5 p.m. to midnight Friday. Saturday morning kicks off with a parade starting at 10 a.m. at Mount Pleasant Retirement Village and traveling across town to the Community Park, where the festival will begin and last until midnight. Sunday hours are noon to 5 p.m.
CityFest features a variety of games, crafts, food and informational booths, plus an inflatable slide, a “Moonwalk” and games for children, said Councilwoman Vicky Sizemore, who is in charge of entertainment. The fire safety house also will be available for children to tour.
A new event this year: the Ohio Woodchoppers, from Killbuck, Ohio, will give cross-cut saw and ax-throwing demonstrations and contests, including nail-driving for women, on Saturday, Ms. Sizemore said.
Also on Saturday, a 50-foot banana split will be created at 1:30 p.m.; magician James Marcum, of Springboro, will perform at 3 and 6:30 p.m.; the Fort Hamilton Jazz Band will play from 4-6 p.m.; and from 9 p.m. to midnight, Driven, an oldies band, will perform.
On Friday, 8 p.m. to midnight, 1950s and 1960s band TZ 5 will entertain. Middletown Barbershop Quartet per forms at 3 p.m. Sunday.
Monroe Fire Department will offer fire and safety demonstrations at 9 p.m. Friday. At 6 p.m. Saturday, the police will present a canine demonstration.
Raffle tickets will be sold each day for chances to win a quilt made by members of the historical society. The drawing will be held in December.
The historical society also will display a picture of itsproposed museum building. The society has raised more than half the $150,000 needed for the new structure.
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