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Thursday, Sept. 13, 2012Arnold-Imperial Leader2B Arnold dAys 2012

By Steve TaylorFor the Leader

The annual Arnold Days Festival got a gift this year in honor of the 40th anniversary of the city’s in-

corporation, and everyone who attends the three-day celebration, set for Sept. 14-16, will get to enjoy it.

The Arnold Tourism Commis-sion agreed to provide the event with $56,000, almost double the regular allocation.

“The money comes from the city’s hotel-motel bed tax,” said Susie Boone, director of the Arnold Parks and Rec-reation Department. “This is essentially not costing the city any extra money.

“They really wanted to do some-thing this year for the city’s 40th an-niversary that they normally wouldn’t do,” she said. “So we’re going to have lots of added amenities.”

Highlighting the festival lineup this year will be a spectacular fireworks show on Saturday, a hot dog-eating con-test, a dunking booth featuring Arnold Police officers and a big-time country music talent show, the Texaco Country Showdown.

Returning favorites like shows by Joe Dirt and the Dirty Boys Band, local

Friday, Sept. 14

■ Carnival rides and craft, vendor and food booths open. Helicopter, Segway rides available.

Time: opens 5 p.m.Place: Arnold City Park on Bradley

Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

■ Jessie Kohut and the Boys.Time: 7-11 p.m.Place: At the bandstand in Arnold

City Park. Show will include a “surprise event” to generate awareness of the Kellsie’s Hope Foundation as part of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month in September.

Admission: Free.

You’re invited to the partyArnold Days fest will have extra fun for city’s 40th year

favorite Jessie Kohut and the Boys and the annual parade down Jeffco Boulevard also will be part of the schedule.

A children’s fishing tournament, car-nival rides, a car show and a 5K run-walk will be among the other activities associ-ated with Arnold’s 40th birthday party.

Everyone’s invited, of course, and admission is free.

How many attend, Boone said, is subject to the weather.

“It’s usually very wet or very dry for Arnold Days,” she said. “We’re hoping for it to be dry this year. Historically,

Saturday, Sept. 15

■ Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast.Time: 7:30 a.m. Place: Ponderosa Steakhouse, 3601

Jeffco Blvd. at Richardson Road, Arnold.Speaker: Jack Harris, president and

founder of Global Messenger Service, a Fenton-based firm that conducts regular missionary “Global Leadership” meet-ings in nations around the world.

Admission: $6.99, including buffet breakfast and drinks.

Sponsored by: Arnold chapter of the International Fellowship of Christian Businessmen.

Contact for reservations: Bill Van Rhein, 425-849-4058, or Walter Moore, 636-464-0170.

5,000 or 6,000 people are in the park for the main concert on Saturday, but I’d say that over the three days, we get somewhere between 15,000 or 20,000 people participating – not including those who line up alongside Jeffco just to watch the parade.”

Most of the activities will be held in Arnold City Park, on Bradley Beach Road off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

No alcoholic beverages or glass containers will be allowed in the park during the festival, and only service animals will be allowed.

Also, those attending the festival should be warned that no parking will be allowed in the Starling Estates sub-division.

In the pages that follow, readers will find a handy list of events and contact information, as well as a look at some of the faces of the Arnold Days Festival. At the 2011 event, a team of Leader photographers fanned out to take close-up shots of participants. Some of those photographs are featured here.

“People have so much fun at Arnold Days. You can tell by the faces you’ll see on these pages,” editor Peggy Bess said.

For information, call the Arnold Recreation Center at 636-282-2380.

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Arnold residents were denied a chance to enjoy a fireworks show for Independence Day

this year, but organizers of the Arnold Days Festival promise that this year’s fireworks display will more than make up for it.

The fireworks show will be held after dark on Saturday, Sept. 15, at Arnold City Park, on Bradley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

“It will start somewhere around 8:30 p.m. or 8:45 p.m.,” said Susie Boone, director of the Arnold Parks and Recreation Department. “We want to make sure it’s dark for this show.”

Saturday, Sept. 15

■ Children’s Fishing Tournament.Time: Registration at 8 a.m.; tourna-

ment from 8-11 a.m.Place: Arnold City Park lake, in the

park, on Bradley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

Participation cost: Free for ages 1-12. Prizes will be awarded.

Sponsored by: Arnold-Imperial Optimist Club

■ 10th annual Arnold Police Depart-ment Car Show.

Time: Registration from 7 a.m. to noon, when judging begins. Awards at 4 p.m., in 36 classes as well as special awards.

Place: Arnold City Park. Entry fee: $20 per vehicle. Proceeds

benefit the Arnold Police Department’s K-9 program and will help buy police equipment.

Contact: Butch Cooley, 636-296-8490.

BIG boomArnold Days fireworks show will make up for canceled July 4 event

The city’s traditional Fourth of July fireworks display was canceled due to this summer’s drought and record-high temperatures.

“Unfortunately, or fortunately, de-pending on how you look at it, the July 4 celebration was canceled, but Gateway Fireworks Displays of St. Louis agreed to combine that show with our normal Arnold Days show,” Boone said.

The city had budgeted $18,000 for the July 4 celebration.

“We’re looking to spend probably $23,000 for this show,” she said. “This is probably the biggest fireworks show the city has ever seen.”

More than just watching the sky light up every minute or so, Boone said this show will be spectacular.

“It’s going to be a show that no one’s going to want to miss, from the beginning to the end. Without letting the cat out of the bag, there will be lots of different things and some displays that are unique to Arnold celebrating its 40th anniversary,” she said. “And it will be choreographed to music.”

She said the skies will be busy dur-ing the 18-minute display.

“No pun intended, but we’re go-ing to get a lot of bang for our bucks,” she said.

Boone said Gateway has been run-ning the fireworks display for three or four years.

“They’re the tops in the business,” she said. “They do the fireworks at Busch Stadium.”

■ Children’s nature crafts, BB gun shooting, archery demonstrations, a water safety program, other children’s activities.

Time: 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.Place: Arnold City Park.Participation cost: All activities are

free. Hot dogs and water also provided.Sponsored by: St. Louis Long-

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Time: open at noon.Place: Arnold City Park.

■ Hot dog-eating contest for ages 18 and older.

Time: 6 p.m.Place: Near bandstand at Arnold

City Park. Participation cost: Free, but contest

is limited to 20 contestants, who will compete to see who can eat 10 hot dogs the fastest. Advance registration at the Arnold Recreation Center; if field is not filled by contest time, walk-ups will be accepted. Winner will receive a gift card and gift basket.

■ Joe Dirt and the Dirty Boys.Time: 7-11 p.m.Admission: FreePlace: At the bandstand at Arnold

City Park.

■ Fireworks.Time: 8:30-8:45 p.m.Place: Arnold City Park.

Sunday, Sept. 16

■ 5K/1-mile fun run. Time: Registration at 7:15 a.m. Run

starts at 8 a.m.Place: Arnold City Park, on Bradley

Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

Participation cost: Registration is $15 in advance for adults and $20 the day

of the race. Children’s entry fee is $10. Register in advance at the Arnold Recre-ation Center, 1695 Missouri State Road.

Contact: Arnold Recreation Center, 636-282-2380.

■ Arnold Days Festival Parade.Time: Begins 1 p.m.Place: Begins at Fox C-6 Service

Center, 849 Jeffco Blvd., proceeding north on Jeffco Boulevard and ending at Arnold City Park.

■ Texaco Country Showdown.Time: 4-8 p.m.Place: At the bandstand at Arnold

City Park. In case of rain, show will be held at Arnold Recreation Center, 1695 Missouri State Road.

Admission: Free except for a few reserved seats for $10 available at the Recreation Center. Showdown features performances by seven country music performers vying for a spot in a regional, then national competition.


Time: open at noon.Place: Arnold City Park.



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This year’s Arnold Days Festival will feature the usual array of arts and crafts and business booths,

but there will also be something wet and wild for 2012.

The Arnold office of Coldwell Bank-er Gundaker and local lender Tom Treiber will sponsor an Arnold Police Department dunking booth on Saturday, Sept. 15.

The event is called Dunk a Cop. Re-altor Debbie Langanke said five officers have volunteered to take turns.

“This is all in good fun,” she said. “You can think of it as a way to get re-venge on that traffic ticket the legal way.”

The booth will be open from noon to 6 p.m. It will cost $1 for two throws to try to dunk the cop.

Langanke said the idea of sending police officers into the drink was col-laborative.

“Three other Realtors – Tryna Giere, Anne Watkins and Christina Sanderson – and I were brainstorming on ways to raise money for a charity,” she said. “First we voted on which charity we wanted to help. I’ve been to the Arnold Food Pantry, and I’ve seen the need there, so we took a vote and all proceeds from the booth will go to the food pantry. One of the Realtors is married to an Arnold Police officer, and we thought it might be fun if a few of them agreed to take turns in the booth.”

Langanke said Coldwell Banker Gundaker’s booth will be open all three days, but the police dunking booth will be open only on Saturday.

“The rest of the time we’ll have lots of raffles and silent auctions. We’ll have raffle baskets, raffles for kids. We bought a bunch of fish balloons we’ll be raffling off. There will be a wine basket, movie tickets to the Arnold Cine and some other fun things.

Dunk A CopFirst-time game should make a splash at Arnold Days

“What people need to know is that all the money we raise from the booth will go to the Arnold Food Pantry,” she said.

Array of booths plannedTeresa Kohut of the Arnold Parks

and Recreation Department said booths at the festival will cater to a wide swath of interests.

“There will be lots of arts and crafts booths, of course,” she said. “There will be a booth that sells handbags and purses, which is always popular.”

“We’ll have face painting, airbrushed tattoos – not real tattoos – and hair exten-sions,” she said. “There will be a sand art booth, where people can do sand art.

“There will be a booth where people can win different types of baseball cards.

“There will be a photo booth where people can have their photos taken with the ‘Arnold Days Festival 40 Years of Growth and Prosperity’ logo over it, so they can have a nice souvenir of this

year’s Arnold Days.”As usual, she said, there will be an

assortment of booths offering informa-tion, products and services.

“The Gideons will be there, passing out Bibles. Jefferson County 911 Dis-patch will have an educational booth and there will be a booth talking about solar panels,” she said. “The Sierra Club also has signed up.”

“Most of the booths will be giving back to local charities,” Kohut said.


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The Fox and Seckman high school marching bands are scheduled to perform in the Arnold Days Parade,

to be held at 1 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 16.Bands from the Fox School Dis-

trict’s four middle schools also plan to play in the parade, which will begin at the Fox C-6 Service Center, 849 Jeffco Blvd., and end at Arnold City Park.

The Marching Warriors play for the students at Guffey Elementary on Aug. 23.

Bands from end to endFox School District bands will beat feet on Arnold’s streets

Fox HighThe Fox High Marching Warriors

will play the song “Dynamite” as well as the Fox fight song in the parade.

This year, 144 students are participat-ing in the marching band.

“That’s up from last year,” said Steve Harms, who took over as the school’s band director following the sudden death of Matt Rice July 5 at age 37.

Harms previously was the director of the Fox Middle School band program,

and still teaches seventh-grade students there, as well as sixth-grade Fox Elemen-tary students. His wife, Connie Harms, is Fox High’s color guard sponsor.

Ridgewood Middle School band director Michael Pippin is the Fox High assistant band director. His wife, Kelly Pippin, also assists with Fox High band classes and teaches eighth-grade students at Fox Middle School.

In addition, Ray Adams, a retired Fox district band director, is helping with the high school program this year, Harms said.

Drum majors are Fox High seniors Lyndal Doherty and Matt Kurz and junior Lauren Lankford.

The Fox High band’s halftime show this year is called “Caged.”

“The basic premise is about develop-ing out of captivity to freedom, from a bird’s perspective,” Harms said. “It has moments that are more intense, showing frustration and anger and then the release of tension.”

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includes props that look like nine large cages. “The cages stand on their own, but toward the end of the show, they are all brought together to make one large cage,” Harms said.

Harms said the show has shaped up well.

“The students are doing really well,” he said. “They have a lot of energy on the field. They are working hard. I think people are going to enjoy the show. We’re going to try to add some voiceovers to help people understand what it’s about.”

The band has several competitions scheduled, including the River City Showcase at Fort Zumwalt North in O’Fallon on Oct. 6, the Bi-State March-ing Invitational in Potosi on Oct. 13, the Ozarko Invitational Marching Band Festival at Missouri State University in Springfield on Oct. 20 and the Belleville East High School Marching Invitational at McKendree University in Lebanon, Ill., on Oct. 27.

Harms said everyone associated with the band program at Fox is still trying to adjust to Mr. Rice’s death.

“I think we are all doing our best to move forward at this point,” he said. “There are moments when it becomes hard for some of the students, especially when we have a traditional event like the parade and it is the first time we have done something without Mr. Rice.”

Seckman HighFor the Arnold Days Parade, the

Seckman High School Jaguar Pride Marching Band will play Van Morrison’s “Brown Eyed Girl” and the Bar-Kays’ “Soul Finger.”

For its halftime show, the band is performing music from Cirque du Soleil and the movie “Avatar.” The theme for the show is “Pandora’s Box,” band director Ben Middleton said.

A 15-by-6 1/2-by-10-foot box will be part of the show.

“It should be pretty awesome,” Mid-dleton said. “It will have a lid and one of the girls will open the top of the box. Then, the music portrays the evil coming out and at the end of the show, the lid goes back on, and the box is rotated and ‘Hope’ is written on the back, so only hope remains.”

Assistant band director Joe Simino built three homemade instruments for the show. One is a water drum.

“It’s like an ancient Mayan or Aztec type drum,” Simino said. “They used gourds and hollowed them out to make them, but I used a planter and a wooden bowl. You fill the planter with water and put the bowl in upside down and get a pocket of air trapped in it, and you bang on that. There’s a nice bassy tone to it that you can’t mimic with any modern instrument.”

Simino also made a marching machine. “It’s a wooden frame with a bunch of 3-inch blocks suspended on ropes at different in-tervals,” he said. “You set the frame down on a table, and the blocks bang around.”

The third instrument is a chain box.

“It’s a box with a chain suspended from it and you drop the chain in the box over and over again; it sounds like walk-ing,” Simino said.

The Seckman High band has 101 students this school year, about the same as last year, Middleton said.

Drum majors are senior Juliana Marsh and juniors Jennifer Hudspeth and Kayla Porter.

The band is doing well this year, Middleton said.

“I’m very excited,” he said. “This is year 2 of a new structure for all the staff and students, and we’re very excited for it. The color guard won an award last year, and the drum line came close to winning, so both groups are excited to go out and repeat that success.

“If we keep working to be competi-tive, things will come to us. We work to be competitive and to make it fun for the kids.”

Simino is the band director at Seck-man Middle, but also leads the high school band percussionists. Other assis-tants for the Seckman High band program are Middleton’s wife, Sarah Middleton; Debby Row, the Antonia Middle School band director; Lydia Hill, the Antonia Middle choral director; Keith Jean, the Ridgewood Middle School choral direc-tor; and Chad Griefe, who teaches in Washington, Mo.

The Seckman High band also has a solid lineup of competitions ahead, including the Tiger Ambush Classic in Edwardsville, Ill, on Sept. 22; the McK-

endree University Preview of Champions in Lebanon, Ill., on Sept. 29; the River City Showcase at Fort Zumwalt North in O’Fallon on Oct. 6 and the Ste. Genevieve Marching Festival on Oct. 27.

“We’re hoping for a 2012 (Cardinals) World Series parade in St. Louis, too,” Middleton said. “We were in it last year.”

He said the Seckman and Fox bands played together Aug. 15 at a Cardinals game, performing the national anthem.

“We dedicated that to Matt Rice,” Middleton said.

Seckman MiddleThe Seckman Middle band program

has about 100 kids, and approximately 70

of those will perform in the Arnold Days Parade, Simino said. They will play the rock classic, “Wild Thing.”

The school’s varsity band and concert choir are scheduled to travel to Kansas City in May for the Music in the Parks Festival at Worlds of Fun.

Antonia MiddleThe Antonia Middle School band

will play the pop song, “Dynamite,” in the parade. About 100 kids will participate, including band students, cheerleaders and pommies, Row said.

She said the school’s band program has about 115 students.

They plan to participate in the Wind-sor Music Festival, the Six Flags Music Festival and the Washington (Mo.) Music Festival, Row said.

“We’re hoping to perform at a Cardi-nals game again this year,” she said. “And, we’ll have a winter and a spring concert and play at the Seckman High Band Fun Night.

“We play at a JCYA (Jefferson County Youth Association) game, too.”

Fox, Ridgewood middlesFox and Ridgewood middle school

band students will perform together in the parade. They will play “Yankee Doodle Dandy.” At Fox Middle, about 107 kids are in the band program, Harms said.

There are about 105 band students at Ridgewood Middle, Pippin said.

Bands: Arnold Days Parade brings out the music from local school bandsContinued from Page 5B

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The Arnold-Imperial Optimist Club will sponsor the Children’s Fishing Tournament for the second straight

year. It will be held from 8-11 a.m. Saturday, April 15, at the Arnold City Park Lake.

Entry is free for children ages 1-12, in three di-visions.

Carl Dowdy, president of the club, said the main difference b e t w e e n t h i s year ’s tourna-ment and last year’s is a little more structure.

“We’ll have the rules posted at the registration table, so that par-ents understand how the tournament will be run,” he said.

Last year, he said, a few parents caused a bit of a stir over the rules. Club members learned from that ex-perience.

“For instance, we will start exactly at 8 a.m. There will be no casting off ahead of time,” he said. “This was only a problem with a couple of parents. The kids really understand the reasons for the rules. The kids last year thought it was really cool. They really loved it.”

He said just under 100 children signed up for last year’s contest, with about an equal number of boys and girls.

The three categories are for ages 1-5, 6-10, and 11-12.

Prizes will be given in a number of categories in each age group, including biggest fish and “most unique fish,” Dowdy said.

Fishing poles will be given to the top three anglers in each class, and winners also will receive medallions.

In addition, Dowdy said, tackle boxes and other prizes will be given out during drawings.

“It may be that not everybody will walk away with something, but we’ll do our best to give the kids as much as we can,” he said.

Dowdy said the Arnold Parks and Recreation Department will stock the lake with “several thousand” fish in anticipa-tion of the tournament, so lines should be jumping.

He also noted that the city has been filling the lake with water.

“Before I heard that, I was wondering whether maybe we should ask the kids to bring nets and they could just scoop up the fish while they waded through the mud at the bottom of the lake,” he said, jokingly. “I’m glad they’ll be able to fish.”

Lake will be stocked and ready for kids ages 1-12

Children should bring their own fishing equipment – a pole and bait, at least – and should be accompanied by an adult, although Dowdy said members of the Optimists will be on hand to lend a hand to neophyte fisherkids.

M e m b e r s o f the St. Louis Long-beards, a chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, also will lend a help-ing hand at the fish-ing tournament, and will have some fish-ing poles to lend to children who don’t have them.

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Missionary and businessman Jack Harris will be the fea-tured speaker at this year’s

Arnold Days Festival Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast.

The breakfast, sponsored by the Arnold chapter of the International Fel-lowship of Christian Businessmen, will begin at 7:30 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at Ponderosa Steakhouse, 3601 Jeffco Blvd. at Richardson Road.

Harris is president and founder of Global Messenger Service, a Fenton-based firm that conducts regular “Global Leadership” meetings in Brazil, Costa Rica, Vietnam, Indonesia and India, ac-cording to the company’s website.

The website says the firm’s mis-sionaries have meetings with pastors and other local religious leaders to encourage and challenge them, providing books and materials.

The missionaries also hold pastors’ seminars in foreign countries. According to the website, more than 125,000 pastors have attended these meetings.

Global Messenger also sponsors outreach and evangelism events.

Locally, the firm also sponsors a “No Bull” mentoring meeting for men and their teenage sons, 16 years and older, on the third Wednesday of each

Mayor’s Prayer Breakfast will feature Jack Harris – missionary, businessman

month at the Romaine Springs Estates clubhouse. The purpose of the meetings, according to the website, is to allow men from all walks of life to hang out with other men and talk about life and learn how to serve God.

Since entering full-time ministry in 1976, Harris and his wife, Sherry, have traveled all over the world holding cru-sades, planting churches and providing humanitarian aid to the poor.

Harris attended Bible college in the early 1980s and then the couple took their first international trip to Mexico. After returning to Mexico several times, they then traveled to Guatemala and India. In 1985, they moved to India, and later re-located to Malaysia. In 1992, the Harrises moved their family and their ministry back to St. Louis.

“I’ve know him for 25 or 30 years,” said Bill Van Rhein, president of the Arnold chapter of the International Fel-lowship of Christian Businessmen. “We haven’t talked about what he will speak about yet, but he’s a very good speaker. He has held pastors’ conferences all over the world.”

Van Rhein said his group has spon-sored the prayer breakfast for about 20 years, and attendance ranges from 70 to 100 people. He said the event is not just for businessmen, and that everyone is welcome to hear Harris’ program.

The admission price of $6.99

also includes a buffet breakfast and drinks.

Van Rhein asks that those interested in attending the prayer breakfast make reservations, although walk-ups will be accommodated.

“We just want to have an approxi-mate number of people to get ready for,” he said. “But we don’t want to have more than Ponderosa can accommodate.”

For more information or to make reservations, call Van Rhein at 425-849-4058 or chapter vice president Walter Moore at 636-464-0170.


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Children who want to tear them-selves away from their television, computer and video game screens

will get a taste of life lived out of doors during the Arnold Days Festival on Sat-urday, Sept. 15.

The St. Louis Longbeards, a chapter of the National Wild Turkey Federation, will hold a variety of activities for chil-dren from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. at Arnold City Park, on Brad-ley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard next to the Meramec River.

“We’ll be in the pavilion next to the swings,” said Mitch Norris of Arnold, a leader of the chapter.

This year marks the seventh time the Longbeards have been a part of the Arnold Days lineup, he said.

He sa id t he highlight of the day will be demonstra-tions by a representa-tive of the Missouri State Water Patrol.

“Someone will be here giving water safety tips to kids – the proper way to put on and take off their life vests and other ideas how to stay safe in and around the water,” Norris said.

All demonstrations, he said, will be on dry land.

Norris said all activities are designed for those 20 years old or younger.

In fact, he said, adults can learn some-thing from the water safety demonstration.

“If an adult is willing to watch and learn, we’ll put them on the stage and they can show the proper safety techniques,” Norris said.

The Longbeards will also offer ar-chery demonstrations with three stations

Longbeards offer free fun, free food on Saturday

and participants also can learn to shoot a BB gun.

“That was a real popular thing last year,” he said.

He said children also can learn to build something they can put in their backyards.

“Last year we built birdhouses. I don’t know whether we’ll have birdhouses or bird feeders or something else this year,” he said.

“We’ll also have all the kids who want to build their own turkey calls,” Norris said. “They’re made out of slate rock and sticks. We’ll also teach them how to call with them.”

All activities are free, he said.

“We’ re a l so going to give ev-eryone who attends – children and their parents – a hot dog and water,” he said. “The whole event is free for any person who wants to partici-pate,” Norris said.

He also said various attendance prizes will be given out during the day.

At last year’s Arnold Days, Nor-ris said, the Long-beards’ area was well populated.

“I think we went through 500 kids last year,” he said. “That’s good. Any time you can educate kids on safety, you’re giving them something they can really use. You can’t be too safe any more these days.”

Members of the Longbeards also will be lending a helping hand at the fishing tournament, which starts at 8 a.m. They also will lend fishing poles to children who don’t have them.

“The fishing tournament will wrap up by 11 a.m., so a lot of the kids will head over to our area after that,” Norris said.

For information, call Norris at 314-496-4180.

Fastest eater of 10 hot dogs wins $100By Steve TaylorFor the Leader

A new spectator sport has been added to the lineup of activities at this year’s Arnold Days Fes-

tival – a hot dog-eating contest.Teresa Kohut of the Arnold Parks

and Recreation Department said orga-nizers thought something offbeat would be a good addition.

“We all just kind of came up with the idea,” she said. “We wanted to do something that would be fun.”

The contest will be held at 6 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 15, at the band-stand near the main stage of Arnold City Park, before a concert by Joe Dirt and the Dirty Boys.

There is no charge to enter.Kohut said up to 20 people will be

accepted into the contest.“It’s a race,” she said. “The person

who eats 10 hot dogs the fastest will be the winner.”

She said the competition will be limited to people 18 years old and older.

There are very few rules, she noted, although each competitor will be asked to consume hot dogs on buns.

“That’s the requirement,” she said. “They are allowed to put their own condiments on – ketchup, mustard –

whatever they think may help things go down easier.”

Food for the event will be donated by Gordon Food Service of St. Louis.

The winner will receive a $100 gift card donated by the Arnold Jaycees and a gift basket.

“The basket will include recreation items, like maybe a pool pass (to the Arnold Recreation Center), golf gift cer-

tificates (to the Pomme Creek Golf Course), golf balls, those sorts of things,” she said.

A roll of Tums, however, won’t be part of the basket, she said.

She said parks offi-cials decided to make it a timed race rather than an endurance contest where

gluttony is rewarded.“We don’t want anybody to get really

sick,” Kohut said. “The record for eating hot dogs is 110 in 10 minutes, so we’re expecting 10 hot dogs to go really quickly. I’ve seen guys who can down four or five hot dogs with not a lot of effort.”

Those interested in trying their mas-tery at consuming hot dogs can register in advance at the Arnold Recreation Center. If the 20-contestant field is not filled by Sept. 15, entries will be ac-cepted before the race starts.

Arnold City Park is on Bradley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

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For the last decade, the Arnold Days Festival Car Show has been a big attraction.

Organizer Butch Cooley promised that this year’s show, which will be held Saturday, Sept. 15, at Arnold City Park, will be bigger than last year’s.

“We’re expecting in the neighborhood of 150 cars,” he said. “I think last year we had 140 cars register.”

It costs $20 to register a car in the show. Admission is free for spectators.

“It doesn’t cost anything to come and see the cars,” he said. “A lot of people come and look at them. It will be held, rain or shine.”

Registration will be from 7 a.m. to noon on the day of the show. Drivers of the first 150 vehicles to sign up will receive a dash plaque and an Arnold Days Festival T-shirt.

Awards will be presented at 4 p.m.Trophies will be awarded in 36 cat-

egories, including stock cars, modified cars, modified trucks and street machines. In addition, there will be a Mayor’s Choice award and a Police Chief’s Choice award.

“We will give trophies to the top three in each class,” Cooley said. “That’s a lot of trophies.”

Special awards will be given to ve-hicles judged to have the best graphics, flames, paint, interior and motor. Best of show awards will be given in stock and modified classes.

To minimize the appearance of fa-voritism, Cooley said, an outside firm is brought in to do the judging.

“The first couple of years, we tried

Classic cars and rat rods will be on display Saturday

to have local judges – people from body shops, interior shops, those kind of places. We found that didn’t work nearly as well as bringing in people from the outside. These guys have judged cars for 15 years or more. You don’t get people thinking, ‘Hey, this guy knows that guy.’ That doesn’t hap-pen when you get outside judges.”

Mayor Ron Counts and Police Chief Robert Shockey also will choose their favorite vehicles.

Cooley said contestants come from all over.

“We get a lot of cars from Illinois,” he said. “We regularly get cars from places like Potosi, Ste. Genevieve – all over. One year we had a guy who was just coming to visit someone in the area from someplace in Michigan and he brought his show car with him. He figured as long as he was here, he’d go ahead and enter.”

Proceeds from the car show go to the

Arnold Police Department’s K-9 Depart-ment, which was established in 1995. The department includes four police officers and their dogs.

Cooley said the car show typically generates $2,500 to $3,000 each year for the Police Department.

“It just depends on the number of cars we get in,” he said.

Cooley said his favorite part of the show isn’t part of the judging.

“Some of these guys bring in what they call rat rods,” he said. “There are a number of them there every year. Those are cars that guys put together that are just junk. I really get a kick out of seeing them. Some of them I wonder how they

get them to run.”Cooley credited restaurants and other

businesses in the area for donating money for prizes and prizes.

“Prizes are handed out every 15 min-utes or so,” he said.

In addition, he said, the work of Shockey and volunteer Linda Brazile has been invaluable.

“Linda does an awful amount of work and never gets much credit for it,” Cooley said.

Arnold City Park is on Bradley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Mera-mec River.

For more information on the car show, call Cooley at 636-296-8490.

The Arnold Days Festival 5K/1 Mile Fun Run will be held Sunday, Sept. 16, at Arnold City Park, on Bradley Beach Road, off Jeffco Boulevard near the Meramec River.

Registration will begin at 7:15 a.m. on race day, with the race scheduled to start at 8 a.m. Entry for adults costs $15 in advance and $20 on race day. Children may enter for $10.

Prize medals will be awarded to the man and the woman who finish first as well as the first child (12 and under) who

crosses the finish line. All participants will receive a T-shirt.

Advance entries are accepted though Friday, Sept. 14, at the Arnold Recreation Center, 1695 Missouri State Road. A registration form also can be downloaded from the city’s website at www.arnoldmo.org. Runners will be accepted the morning of the race.

Although the Parks and Recreation Department is organizing the run, it is sponsored by the Arnold Rotary Club.

Call 636-282-2380 for details.

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