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Birthday trivia answers1. Dr. Phil McGraw2. Gloria Gaynor3. Joey Heatherton

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1. I was born on September 1, 1950 in Oklahoma.I am a self help guru who began my televisioncareer on the Oprah Winfrey program. Who am I?

2. I was born September 7, 1949 in New Jersey. Iam a singer, best known for my disco classic, IWill Survive. Who am I?

3. I was born on September 14, 1944 in NewYork. I was a sex-symbol who visited US troopsoverseas with Bob Hope. I also made frequentappearances on The Dean Martin Show, andthe Perry Como Show. Who am I?

4. I was born September 23, 1959 in New Jersey. Iam best known as Jerrys neurotic friend GeorgeCostanza on Seinfeld. Who am I?

5. I was born September 23, 1945 in California.I first rose to prominence in the 1950s playingJeff Stone on The Donna Reed Show, and transi-tioned to a singing career in the 1960s and sangAmy, and Lollipops and Roses. Who am I?

6. I was born September 24, 1958 in Minnesota.In 1994, I played the role of Hercules in the tele-vision film Hercules and the Amazon Women.I also guest-starred as Hercules in episodes ofthe 1995-2001 spin-off series Xena: WarriorPrincess. Who am I?

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Was it Ruth Handler, who createdthe Barbie Doll and named it after herdaughter?

No. How about Baby Ruth, thecandy bar that was named after eitherPresident Grover Clevelands daughter

or Babe Ruth, depending on which ver-sion you believe?

Nope. Her name was Ruth Wake-eld, and her story begins in 1930 inWhitman, Massachusetts, where sheand her husband Ken ran an inn. Theirlittle inn was originally built for travel-ers going from Boston to New Bedfordwhen it was built way back in 1709.Travelers paid a toll each time theypassed through with their horses.

Ruth worked as a dietitian and food

lecturer. Since neither you nor I arelikely to know what a food lectureris, well just leave it at that.

If I told you Ruths last name, youstill wouldnt know her. If I told youthe name of her inn, you would knowright away who she is. So Ill keep youin suspense for just a little while longer.In the world of TV news, this is knownas a tease.

Ruth would often bake desserts forher guests, and one of her favorite itemswas her Butter Drop Do cookies. Oneday she ran out of chocolate while mak-ing a batch of these cookies, so she sub-stituted some chunks of chocolate froma chocolate bar that her friend Andrewhad recently given her.

Ruth expected the chocolate chunksto melt along with the cookie doughwhen she baked them, as she was

trying to make her usual chocolatecookies. Instead, the chunks stayedhard. In the process, Ruth Wakeeldmade the rst chocolate chip cookie inhistory!

The fact that the chocolate chipcookie was created by accident meansthat it has something in common withPost-It Notes, Silly Putty and IvorySoap.

What was the name of the inn thatRuth and her husband ran?

Earlier in the story, I mentionedthat travelers paid a toll each time theypassed through. It was called the TollHouse Inn. As in Nestle Toll House

Cookies.But theres more to this story.Ruth and Andrew made a deal: His

chocolate company would print hercookie recipe on its packaging in re-turn for giving Ruth a lifetime supplyof chocolate.

The full name of her friend Andrewwas Andrew Nestle. As in Nestle TollHouse Cookies!

Ruth who?

Ruth died in 1977, and the Toll House Inn burned down from a re that startedin the kitchen on New Years Eve 1984. The inn was not rebuilt. The site is markedwith a historical marker, and that land is now home to a Wendys restaurant andWalgreens pharmacy.

The Toll House Inn in Whitman, Massachusetts, circa 1940.

Although there are many manufac-

turers of chocolate chips today, Nestlstill publishes the recipe on the backof each package of Toll House Morselsjust as they did on this original pack-aging.

Ingredients neededfor 20 cookies:

1/2 cup unsalted butter, cut into slices8 ounces NESTL TOLL HOUSE

Dark Chocolate Baking Bars, nelychopped

3 ounces unsweetened chocolate bak-ing bar, nely chopped

1/2 cup all-purpose our1/2 teaspoon baking powder1/4 teaspoon salt3 large eggs, at room temperature1 1/4 cups superne granulated sugar2 teaspoons pure vanilla extract2 cups (one 12-ounce package)

NESTL TOLL HOUSE Semi-sweetChocolate Morsels

1 cup NESTL TOLL HOUSE Dark

Chocolate & Mint MorselsDirections: PREHEAT oven to 350 F.

Line baking sheets with parchment paper.MELT butter in a double-boiler (or

stainless bowl set over but not touch-ing simmering water). Once butter ismelted, add dark and unsweetened bak-ing bars and stir until melted and smooth.Remove the bowl from heat and let coolslightly.

SIFT our, baking powder and salttogether into a medium bowl and setaside briey.

BEAT eggs in large mixer bowl untilfoamy, about 30 seconds. Increase thespeed to high and gradually add sugar,then vanilla extract. Continue beating untilthe eggs are very thick and pale yel-low, about 3 minutes. Reduce the mixer

speed to medium and beat in the cooledchocolate, making sure it is completelyincorporated. Reduce the mixer speed tolow and gradually add the our mixture.Stir in the semi-sweet and dark chocolate& mint morsels by hand.

SCOOP dough using a 2-inch icecream scoop onto the prepared bakingsheets, placing the dough about 1 inches apart.

BAKE for 17 to 20 minutes or untilthe cookies are just set (centers may stillseem underdone but will rm up uponcooling). Do not over bake. Let cool righton the baking sheets.

To get the full molten effect, servethese cookies warm!

Award winning variation of the traditional Toll House Cookie

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ACROSS1. Half of the Odd Couple6. ___, the Beloved Country9. Greek portico13. Just outside a fairway14. Thou, today15. Sound units16. Covered with hair17. 2, on a telephone dial18. Moonshine19. *He drove Miss Daisy21. *Played TV doc before

becoming movie star

23. Water snake24. Nightcrawler25. Michigans ___ Five28. Kind of jerk30. King Tuts and Napoleons

hangouts, e.g.34. Paella pot36. *Without Tijuana Brass, thisAlpert appeared in The TenCommandments

38. Civil rights org.40. Sound of pride41. Breastplate43. Smoothie berry44. Ionic and Corinthian prede-cessor46. *He was a dead man walking47. Lose coat48. Phobias50. A personal view52. Court divider53. Once ___ a time...

55. Baseball stat57. Of the essence61. *A Bond man65. Flowing tresses66. Genetic stuff68. Handy69. Express a thought70. H+, e.g.71. *Ed Sullivan Show ventrilo-quist, _____ Wences72. Post-deductions amount73. Armageddon74. Muse of love poetry

DOWN1. Carmina Burana composer,developed system for teachingmusic to kids

2. Lemon quality3. Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Meband The ____4. Come to terms5. Nursery poems6. Greenish blue7. *Sam Seaborn on The WestWing

8. New Mexicos state ower9. Begone!10. Roger Rabbit, e.g.11. One third of thrice12. Light grey15. Quantum of light20. #46 Across said, _____, Mr.Hand22. Ignited

24. Enter uninvited, 2 words25. *Indiana26. Reserved27. Harsh noise29. Profound31. Yes, ___32. *He was rebellious and foot-loose

33. Found on a map35. Mi chiamano Mimi, e.g.37. Tough spot39. *He stole from Louise andspent seven years in Tibet42. Contemptuous look45. *He had Zellweger at Hello49. Kind of resort51. Excite

54. An _____ but a goodie56. Daisylike bloom57. Hurry up58. Bright yellow ower, ___seed, known for its oil59. U in I.C.U.60. *Rapper 50 ____, acted withDe Niro and Pacino in Righteous

Kill61. Boston or Chicago, e.g.62. Columbus vessel63. Loads64. I, Claudius role67. Negation of a word

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Detroits Ford Piquette Avenue Plant is the birthplace of the Model

T. Today, it is the only example of an early Detroit auto factory open tovisitors. You can see where Henry Ford designed the Model T and builtthe rst 12,000 Tin Lizzies.

Learn about the other models Ford built at the Piquette plant between1904 and 1910. And the colorful personalities of Piquette who set theworlds record for car production, making Ford Motor Company theworlds largest manufacturer of automobiles in less than four years.

Learn about the lives of typical autoworkers in 1908 - their ten-hourdays and six-day workweeks; and how they built cars before Henry Fordintroduced the moving assembly line.

The Ford Piquette Avenue plant is well preserved and largely un-changed from its original 1904 appearance. The exterior of the building

is immediately recognizable as the same building shown in early photo-graphs - still in its original red brick, complete with original re escapesand windows.

A visit to the third oor is like stepping back in time. One is immedi-ately impressed by how much it resembles the operating plant of 1905. Itis virtually unchanged. The third oor has never been painted since FordMotor Company left in 1910.

The original sliding re doors remain attached to the rewalls, stillbearing the same Positively No Smoking signs that were stenciled onthem in 1904. Even the ooring is original. It is the same oor on whichevery one of the rst 12,000 Model Ts were built.

Located in the back corner of the third oor is the secret ExperimentalRoom where Ford developed the innovative Model T. Another exhibit

spans ve bays on the third oor showing the Model T during variousstages of assembly. This exhibit explains the stationary assembly processwith which cars were produced before the moving assembly line.

Various Model Ts and other Piquette-era Fords are on display through-out the second and third oor. Several dozen interpretive panels explainthe history of the building and the people who worked there.

The gift shop sells Model T memorabilia, wearables and other Fordrelated items.

Ford Piquee Avenue Plant...

The Birthplace of the Model TTour this historic site at:

461 Piquette St, Detroit, MI 48202

The Piquette Avenue Plant is located in the MotorCities Na-tional Heritage Area. Designated by the U.S. Congress in 1998as an afliate of the National Park Service.

In February 2006, the plant was designated a National His-toric Landmark. National Historic Landmarks are nationallysignicant historic places designated by the Secretary of theInterior because they possess exceptional value or quality inillustrating or interpreting the heritage of the United States.Fewer than 2,500 historic places bear this national distinction.Other National Historic Landmarks in the City of Detroit in-clude the Fisher Building, Fox Theater, General Motors Build-ing (now Cadillac Place), and the Guardian Building.

The Model T has been votedthe most important car of the 20thCentury. Henry Fords universalcar put personal transportationwithin reach of the average citi-

zen and thereby put America onwheels. Key techniques for theautomotive assembly line were de-veloped at this site.

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Marvins MarvelousMechanical Museum

A local mans hobby of enter-tainment antiques has led to cele-brating 20 years of a marvelousbusiness.

Marvin Yagoda is the founder

and owner of Marvins Marvel-ous Mechanical Museum. Themuseum boasts the coin operatedgames as the main attraction. Thegames range from the oldest gyp-sy fortune telling machine of theearly 1900s, to the latest videogames. All the games are opera-tional. Admission to Marvins isFREE, just bring your coins toplay the games if you would like.

Open since 1990, this museumis listed in the World Almanacs100 Most Unusual Museumsand is just a short drive away inFarmingon, Michigan.

Every inch of Marvins Mar-velous Mechanical Museums5500 square feet of oor spacewith 40 foot ceilings contain

an array of buzzing and clatter-ing new and vintage mechanicaldevices and oddities. Overheaddangle signs, animatronic dum-mies, over 50 airplane models

gliding along a steel rail, vintagefans of all types, and classic side-show posters.

Marvin himself travels theworld looking for odd coin oper-ated devices, both new and old.Some of his machines are custommade just for him, and can not beseen in operation anywhere else.

I decided to open the muse-um because I had so much stuff in

my house, Yagoda said. That,and my wife told me I had to dosomething with it.

Yagoda is a recognized ex-pert in the eld of mechanicaland electrical game apparatus; hehas been involved in appraisal ofsuch items for American Pickers.

I love all my machines; somemore than others, Yagoda said.

Marvin can be quoted as saying, Marvins Marvelous Mechanical Museum isknown from coast to coast, like butter and toast. From headlines to bedlines, fromschool rooms to pool rooms, this place is like no other that can be found in the contigu-ous United States and other environs of the free world. If you have been to Marvins,you would certainly agree with the above statement.

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Marvelous Marvins welcomes you Taking You Back in Time with a back-wards working clock!

First visits to Marvins wont be your last. The collection of vintage games,carousels, posters, and other oddities is sheer nostalgia for the entire family. Someloyal patrons have been to Marvins at least 100 times, and every time see some-

thing they have never noticed before. The amount of just plain odd stuff on thewalls, ceilings, oors is amazing. There is something for everyone. The newer videoand redemption games will keep the kids fullled, along with the large selection ofkiddie rides for youngest. Youll come away from Marvins Marvelous MechanicalMuseum wanting to come back again and again.

Pause for an ice cream and a drink at the snack bar. This is a family placewith a sense of humor.

Historical coin-operated machines are some of Marvins personal favorites. Forexample, theres a coin operated glass case with a medieval dungeon scene. Marvin

himself confesses, People like love, fortune, and torture machines. For example trysticking your hand into a hole on something called The Great Chopandof. A grin-ning character slams a blade down, and blood spurts. Is it your own blood? Onlya quarter investment and a steady hand will tell you for sure. Another of Marvinsfavorites is Cure Your Fear of Spiders, where the patron places their hand in a cagewith a spider. Then guess what happens? Oh wait, youll have to see for yourself!

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Visitors will see a full

day of entertainment includ-ing full-armored Joustingthe way it was done over 400years ago by real Knightsin shining armor. QueenElizabeth I presides over thefestivities as dozens of Re-naissance musicians, danc-ers, comedians, jugglers,sword-ghters, storytellersand hundreds of costumedperformers entertain patronsof all ages on 11 stages innearly 100 shows daily.

Arts & Crafts: More than140 world-class artisansdisplay wares in this uniqueshoppers paradise. Masterartisans demonstrate time-less arts of glassblowing,jewelry making, blacksmith-ing, stone carving, leathercrafting, weaving and more.

Food & Drink: GiantTurkey Leggs, Steak-On-A-Stake, Stuffed Spuds, Bread

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Barbarian Invasion09/21/2013, 09/22/2013Gather your hoard and

raid the village! Rowdy con-tests in true barbaric fashionare the order of the day. Areyou a weakling? Compete inthe Test of Strength Contest toshow us just how strong youare! Enter the Turkey Leg Eat-ing Contest to show us your

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a ame during this most amo-rous weekend. Hearts a-reas couples renew their vows ina free Mass Renewal of VowsCeremony held at St. PetersChapel twice daily.

10/05/2013, 10/06/2013Oktoberfest WeekendIts time for brats and

beer! Enjoy a wide selectionof beers and ales at the vil-lage pubs with savory brats onsandwiches and sticks. Giveyour best toast during the Odeto Ale Toasting Contest at the

Aleing Knight Pub at 4:30. Andfor the wee ones, they can joinin a game of Topfschlagen (Hitthe Pot) with villagers. Thisweekend is also the villagesannual Pumpkin DecoratingContest.

Highland Weekend -10/12/2013, 10/13/2013The village puts on its kilt!

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Highland heritage as villagershost special events includ-ing a Haggis Eating Contest,Knobby Knees Contest, anda traditional Highland Gamescompetition. Also appearingthis weekend only, the thun-derous pipes and drums ofAlbannach!

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Over the course of yourworking lifetime, with ev-ery paycheck youve du-

tifully paid taxes towardSocial Security. When thetime comes to retire, willyou le for your benetsas soon as possible age62 under current guide-lines or will you waituntil your full retirementage to receive benets?You also have the option towait longer than your fullretirement age to receivean even bigger check. Thequestion is when does itmake sense to start takingbenets?

For years, the full retirement age was 65,and there was no debate about the meritsof waiting to take your Social Security. Inanticipation of the millions of baby boom-ers entering retirement, the governmenthas pushed the age of full retirement out.Americans born in 1960 or later dont qual-ify for full benets until age 67 and thefull retirement age might continue to creep

upward as a means to stave off the impend-ing shortage in the federal governmentscoffers.

In general, the longer you wait to le

for benets, the bigger your monthly SocialSecurity check will be. Conversely, if youtake money out sooner, youll get less. Howmuch less? Well, if your full retirement ageis 66 and you decide to take benets begin-ning at age 62 (early retirement), yourbenets will be reduced by 25 percent.

Still, if you choose to wait until full re-tirement age or beyond to receive benets,you may need to consider how long it willtake you to catch up to the amount youwould have received, cumulatively, had youstarted taking benets at a younger age. Thisis called the breakeven point. If you delayyour benets (up to age 70), you may notreach your breakeven point until your 79thbirthday. That may be ne if you live to be90 but is not so swell if you dont reach age75. Assuming you are in good health andhave a healthy family history, you couldsave money in your retirement years bywaiting until age 70 to begin receiving yourSocial Security benets.

There are other factors beyond thebreakeven point that will inuence whatage is optimal for you to begin receivingyour Social Security payout. If you need themoney now because you dont have suf-

cient savings or other sourcesof income to live on, you mayhave no real choice. Or if you

are in poor health, it also maynot make sense to wait to re-ceive your benets.

You could increase yourfuture monthly Social Securitypayment by continuing to workbeyond age 62 without claim-ing benets. Thats because theamount of your benet is basedon the average of your highestearning years. If you can bumpup your income, the overallcalculation of your average in-come will result in a plumpercheck. On the other hand, if

you continue to work between age 62 andyour full retirement age and le for SocialSecurity, the benets you receive may betaxed and thus reduced.

Your marital status factors into the de-cision of what age you choose to receiveyour benets. For married couples, theresa potential advantage for the lower-earningspouse if the higher wage earner postponesbenets. Thats because the lower wage

earner receives one-half of the spousesbenet provided he or she has reached fullretirement age and the full benet if he orshe is widowed. According to ssa.gov, if thelower-earning spouse begins collecting ben-ets prior to reaching full retirement age, heor she could receive benets of up to about46 percent, depending on his or her age.

To be sure, youll want to look at yourprojected benets (and your spouses) andspeak with your nancial advisor beforemaking a decision to request your benets.

Review your Social Security statement (youcan request one at ssa.gov) to determine thebenets you would receive if you were tobegin collecting at age 62, at your full re-tirement age or if you decide to postponeyour benets until a later age. Talk to yournancial advisor and your accountant to getprofessional opinions on the value of wait-ing versus claiming benets sooner. Whatmakes sense for one retiree may not be thebest choice for another.

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10/1210 GOOD TIMES Se tember 2013

By Ronda Addy

The 1930s is marked by theGreat Depression, which techni-cally began with the stock mar-ket crash on Tuesday, October29, 1929, or Black Tuesday, as it

would become known. The GreatDepression spread from the Unit-ed States to the rest of the world,which made it the worst economiccollapse in the history of the mod-ern industrial world. Throughoutthat time period, more than 15million Americans went withoutwork.

Herbert Hoover had just beenin ofce eight months when thestock market crashed and theDepression that followed didnot bode well for his presidency.Many people today, in fact, stillbelieve he could have stopped theDepression. Hoovers presidencywas damaged even further in 1932with the Bonus March stagedby WWI veterans. Years earlier,Congress had passed the Sol-

diers Bonus Act, which grantedveterans Adjusted CompensationCerticates payable in 1945. Suf-fering the effects of the Depres-sion, 17,000 veterans convergedon Washington in 1932, urgingthe early release of the certicates.

Hoover had already made provi-sions for the veterans and believedreleasing the certicates wouldburden the country. The Senate de-feated the Bonus bill, and althoughthe government offered to pay theveterans way home, thousandsrefused and set up a shantytowncalled Hooverville. The policewere called to the scene and a riotbroke out. Hoover ordered federaltroops to contain the problem, andDouglas MacArthur, who was incharge, told soldiers to use teargas and bayonets and set re to theshanties. Several people, includ-ing a child, were killed. BecauseHoover never criticized MacAr-thur for his tactics, the publicblamed him as well as MacArthur.

The Dust Bowl added a great

deal to the already hard times ofthe 1930s. Over the years, farminghad removed much of the grassof the Great Plains and exposedthe soil. Massive drought turnedthe soil to dust and windstormsblew it away. Southeastern Colo-

rado, southwestern Kansas and theTexas and Oklahoma panhandleswere just some of the regions hit.After years of dust storms, theworst storm hit on April 14, 1935,or Black Sunday. As dust cloudscircled, thousands of people lefthome to get away from the dustand look for work.

Times were hard during the1930s and people had little moneyto spare. While Congress had de-clared The Star Spangled Ban-ner the national anthem in 1931,the 1932 song Brother or BuddyCan You Spare a Dime became

the anthem of the time. What lux-ury people could afford was mov-ies, hence the period known asHollywoods Golden Age. Forjust 10 to 23 cents a ticket, moviegoers could sit in a dark theater fora couple of hours and forget abouttheir problems as they watchedBette Davis, Errol Flynn, ClarkGable, Bob Hope, W.C. Fields andthe Marx Brothers perform. Musi-cals starring Fred Astaire and Gin-ger Rogers enthralled audiences,as did a curly headed girl by thename of Shirley Temple.

Many people also turned tothe radio for entertainment. They

could laugh at the likes of FredAllen, Jack Benny, George Burnsand Gracie Allen, Fibber McGeeand Molly, and Amos and Andy, orroot for their favorite heroes likethe Green Hornet, the Lone Rang-er and the Shadow. They couldeven tune in every week to theradio soap opera Our Gal Sundayand nd out what Lord and LadyBrinthrope were up to. On Octo-ber 30, 1938, radio really came

alive when Orson Wells and his

Mercury Theater performed H.G.Wells War of the Worlds. Despitedisclaimers that the show was anact of ction, thousands believedthat Martians had invaded earthand mass panic ensued.

Although times were toughduring the 1930s, Americanssomehow got by, and with theefforts of President Franklin D.Roosevelt, the economy slowlyrecovered. Stamp collecting be-came a popular hobby becauseof President Roosevelt, and in1935, Parker Brothers introduceda game called Monopoly, whichsold 20,000 sets in one week. In

1939, horse racing had been legal-ized in 21 states and an estimated25.8 million people visited theNew York Worlds Fair where theysaw images of a TV screen and aseven-lane cross-country highway.

During the 1930s, the averagefamily income went from $2,300to $1,500, and for most Ameri-cans, just trying to survive becamethe norm. In time, though, thecountry would recover and face a

new threat in Europe.

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Oktoberfest Zinzinnati, thelargest Oktoberfest celebrationin the country, is held alongFifth Street in downtown Cin-cinnati, Ohio and showcasesthe rich German heritage ofSouthwest Ohio, as well as

tasty samples of German-stylemusic, food and beer. First heldin 1976, the event has grownto be Americas largest Okto-berfest and the second largestin the world. with more than500,000 people attending eachyear.

Returning in 2013 will bethe larger-than-life-sized Cin-cinnati.com Glockenspiel -- anactual working clock with aHudepohl bar on the groundlevel and a stage above the bar.Every hour on the hour whenthe clock strikes, the music willkick in and entertainers willemerge on the stage to ring inthe hour with dances, toastsand souvenirs for the crowd.Expect celebrity guest enter-tainers during certain hourstoo! The Glockenspiel will belocated at the Hudepohl Beergarden at Fifth and Broadway.

This year enjoy the Sam Ad-ams Stein Hoist Heard Aroundthe World, Stammtisch, Hude-pohl, Becks, Erdinger andYuengling Fest Tents, plus

the Worlds Largest ChickenDance! Oktoberfest-Zinzinnatifeatures seven stages showcas-ing continuous live Germanmusic and more than 30 foodvendors serving close to 200dishes.

The event kicks off Friday,September 20th at noon withthe Running of the Wieners(Dachshunds race each otherfor pride and prizes) and opensfully with the Gemuetlichkeit[Guh-MUT-le-kite] or Good-will Games at 5:00 p.m.

According to the Cincin-nati USA Regional Chamber,grazing gourmets created thefollowing Statistiken with theirgluttonous consumption at aprevious Oktoberfest-Zinzin-nati: 87,542 metts, 80,500 brat-wurst, 64,000 sauerkraut balls,56,250 sausages, 24,640 potatopancakes, 23,004 soft pretzels,20,000 cream puffs, 16,002strudel, 3,600 lbs. sauerkraut,1,875 lbs. German potatosalad, 702 lbs. Limburgercheese, 700 pigtails

So celebrate German Stylethis September at OKTO-

BERFEST.

For full schedule of the fun:http://www.

oktoberfestzinzinnati.com/

OKTOBERFEST

Festival Hours:Friday, Sept. 20, 2013

5 p.m.-midnightSaturday,

Sept. 21, 201311 a.m.-midnight

Sunday,Sept. 22, 201311 a.m.-10 p.m.

Where:On six blocks of Fifth

Street, from VineStreet to Sentinel in

Downtown Cincinnati.

Cost: Free!

Parking:Convenient parkingcan be found in the

Fountain SquareGarage for only $5.

Racing of the Weiner Dogs. Dachshunds dressed up intheir hot dog buns race toward the nish line!

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