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General News: Fall Festival Attracts Public to Main Street
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| A NYMA cadet assisted children on the bungee ride. |
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| A young woman modeled a bright blue wig, one of hundreds of items for sale on Saturday. |
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| Ellen Kelly, owner of Smitchger Realty, blew up plenty of yellow blooms outside her business on Main Street. |
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| Inventor Maureen Oliveto shows off her knotting device. |
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| Madison Mitchell and Sydney King showed off their face paintings. |
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| Mary O'Meara and Theresa Ricci raised funds for St. Jude's Children Hospital. |
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| People packed a colorful Main Street for the festival. |
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| Rescue Window entertains at the Fall Festival. |
September 19, 2011
The 38th annual Fall Festival got off to a bit of a chilly start on Saturday morning, September 17 but by midday, the street was humming with activity as friends greeted the shop owners, vendors and community groups that had come out to show their wares.
Entering from the direction of Cornwall town hall, the first action to see – or better said, to hear – were the musicians on the flatbed truck stage that stood across Main Street. Shortly after noon, Rescue Window, a hard rock band comprised of high school students who have been working together for at least two years to create their tightly-performed sound, were on deck, with a largely teenage audience enjoying every beat.
Food – hot dogs, ice cream, sausages and French fries – kept the lunch-hour crowd engaged and outside the new King’s Pommes Frites, people relaxed at a picnic table while eating the hearty fries that are served with a variety of enticing sauces. Sydney King, the daughter of owners Annette and Jermaine King, was helping serve with her friend, Madison Miller. Both girls had taken a break earlier to have their faces painted by some of the most elaborate designs seen in a long time.
Younger children congregated further down the street in the municipal parking lot that had been transformed into an inflatable amusement area. Volunteer cadets from the New York Military Academy helped the children stay safe in the bouncy rides and one oversaw a bungee cord game in which the participant was strapped in and ran against the cord until it pulled the person back to the base.
One person who tried the bungee game three times was Helen Bunt, the president of the Greater Cornwall Chamber of Commerce, the sponsor of the annual Fall Festival. Bunt said she went on the bungee three times with her young granddaughter, gave it everything she could, and was pulled back by the cord each time. She showed a scrape on the side of her arm as evidence of her adventure.
Outside of the candle gift store further down Main Street, Maureen Oliveto of Highlands Mills was busy demonstrating a process that she has created to make knotted jewelry. Oliveto said that she came up with the Easy Knotter system because of her own frustration trying to make the knots between beads come out evenly spaced. She has patented her idea and often promotes the knotting device live on TV, which she says has generated lots of sales. You can find the Easy Knotter at the Creative Gifts and More boutique, which is moving to a larger storefront on Main Street in the next month, where there will be a section devoted to the jewelry knotting system.
With the boy scouts, the girl scouts, the Cornwall Historical Society and the church groups all coming out to talk about their community involvement, this year’s Fall Festival offered one of those rare moments when long-time residents could re-connect with one another and newcomers could begin to make those ties that form the basis of the Cornwall community
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