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By TIMOTHY GIBBONS; Times Leader Staff Writer
Sunday, July 25, 1993 Page: 2A QUICK WORDS: NANTICOKE THROWS
BIRTHDAY BASH
NANTICOKE — You haven’t lived until you’ve heard “Achy Breaky Heart”
performed by a polka band.
Jolly Joe and the Bavarians gave the song a different twist Saturday at the
city’s Bicentennial Fair, which began Friday and ends at 11 p.m. today. Sunday
Saturday afternoon visitors were scant, but fair coordinators said they
were confident more people would attend in the evening, as they had Friday.
“There was no parking here last night,” said Marie Kuty, of Nanticoke.
“There were a lot of people.”
Joe Stanky on Friday, Jolly Joe on Saturday and various other musical
entertainers had their fans. “We came for the music and the eats,” said Joe
Bruski, of Nanticoke, visiting with his wife, Ann.
David Oshinski enjoyed the music and the food, but he looked at the
fairgrounds on Lower Broadway a little bit differently — his boyhood home
stood there until the city tore it down almost 20 years ago.
“These folks see it as a fairgrounds. I see it as where I grew up,” he
said.
Remembering the past is the idea behind the fair, which this year
commemorates the city’s 200-year history.
Criss cq ~Cooper worked on the bicentennial commemorative book — a
pictorial and written tour of the town’s history. “We’re trying to pump up the
people in town and put more life into the city,” she said.
The fair has a petting zoo with more than a dozen animals, — including a
pot-bellied pig.
The fair opens at noon today Sunday , and children’s activities begin at 3
p.m. There will be a water-balloon toss, an egg-on-a-spoon race and a
bicycle-decorating contests. Admission is free.