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— September, 2007 Website: www.smmirror.ca Published for and about local people and events ——— VOLUME XXI, Number 9 Milford Fair Seeks to Pa- tent Cow Patty Bingo If the Russians can drop a flag in the water and claim some of the North, then we don’t see any reason why Milford can’t do the same with what comes naturally when a cow is standing around. Claim cow patty bingo as our own. Pa- tent it. And then charge a “performance fee” for the hun- dreds of places that do it every year, some places in areas as big as football fields. The thing is this: if we make the claim first, nobody can prove it didn’t originate here. This all started when the Fair Board asked the publicist and di- rector of bovine research to trace the origin of this very ru- ral custom, and so far he has been able to trace it back to medieval times. Or at least the Bingo part of it, which is attributed to Italy in the 1530s. Ok, they can claim bingo — but we’ve got the cows. Even if it actually more of a lottery than a bingo, come and buy a ticket on September 15 and join in supporting this (sort of) five-hundred year old tradi- tion. Unlike the National Basketball Association, we can Continued on page 12 MILFORD WILD HOGS & HOGETTE... Tanck BAR| 5 TaKE-OUT_| There Back! Read about their adventures on page 13 Kerosene Lamp Concert Series at the Old Black Creek Chapel to be launched September 22 The Kerosene Lamp Concert series at the Old Black Creek Chapel in Black Creek will start with a spe- cial night called Like Mother Like Daughter Like Sister starring Suzanne Pasternak, Natasha Pasternak and Emi- ly Fennell on September 22 at 8:00 p.m. The concert series continues on October 20 with an old time evening of music with the group Down by the River. This ensemble includes Billy } Ostrander, Rennie Thomp- 9 son, Bud Gregory [from Grandpa’s Goodtime Band} Judy Fraser and Continued on page 19 Inside Milford Fair Saturday, Sept. 15, 2007 See Page 4 nis issue... © Get Stuffed ®@ Service 7 @ Druella Acantha Malvina 11 @ The Unlikely “Gang” 13 ®@ Life in the Past 18 @ The Last Word 20