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4th Annual APPLEFEST

10/24/2009 11:00am - 2:00pm

4TH ANNUAL
AppleFest 2009
Saturday, Oct. 24
11 am - 2 pm
Union Project, Stanton and Negley Avenues, Highland Park. 

Pie contest, Music, Apples to taste and buy. More! _______________________ 
Applefest 2009
Saturday, Oct. 24
11 am to 2 pm, Union Project, Stanton and Negley Avenues, Highland Park

Apples to taste/ buy,
pie baking contest, prizes,
pie slices a la mode,
music, entertainment, fun.

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HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY, APPLEFEST!
Pittsburgh's annual community celebration
of local apples and apple pie does not age!

Neither will you if you eat an apple every day.


THE SCHEDULE:
Pies entered into contest by 12 noon with $5 registration fee
Learn to bake a pie tonight--scroll down.
Pie Judging 12-1:30
*Slices of Pie a la mode: 1:00
Awards announced 1:30

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FREE ADMISSION
Regional apples to taste and buy
Buy Apples and Cider from orchards surrounding the city.


Pie a la mode ("Oh Yeah" ice cream) at 1 pm

While you wait for your slice of pie:

Pittsburgh singer-songmaker
: Brad Yoder
and his not too loud but very fine funky little folk-rock-pop songs,
 accompanied on bass

 "All in J.E.S.T." Mother & Son Juggling Team:
Kathy Doutt and Stephen,14, on the Chinese Yoyo.

Unitarian Folk Orchestra
with, we hope, the church's songbird minister

Pie Haiku

On the Spot Pie-Ku Contest
Write 17 syllables in 3 lines. Include a "season" word such as "crisp."
Best entries win a slice of pie a la mode.

Taste and buy goat cheese:

Sam Byler's Riverview Dairy in Emlenton, Pa.


Pie Judges:
Chief Justices: Bill Fuller, Exec. Chef, Big Burrito Restaurant Group,
Chris Rawson, Former Post-Gazette Theater Critic and writer about town
Kate Chenowyth, Pittsburgh Magazine, Miriam Manion, Grow Pittsburgh, Nancy Hanst, teacher/food writer, Post-Gazette, Table Magazine; Katy Werner, Phipps Conservatory, Greg Boulos and Jen Montgomery, co-owners of Blackberry Meadows organic farm, he, Western Pennsylvania Director of Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, she, manager of Blackberry Meadows, Donna Wolfe, pastry chef.

Where:
The Union Project
801 North Negley Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15206
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