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landmark destroyed theunlonyilleqtandard timer9 planing mill dated before 1880 on saturday april 16 1983 the unionvil le planing mill at the corner of victoria avenue and main street burned to the ground the wooden structure which has operated as a business for over 105 years was turned to charcoal and ash in a matter of minutes for some of the younger members of the community the event probably passed with little interest however for the older members ofunion ville the fire was indeed a sad eventf not only was the mill once a place of employment for many families but it epitomized perhaps better than any other historical site the origins of union ville in 1870 robert harrington a carpenter by trade moved to unionville some two years later in 1872 he rented the mill from mr aiken and eventually purchased the business on nov 17 1881 both his sons de and george worked in the mill as boys on april 1 1897 they leased the mill from their father several years later de bought out georges share and ran the business alone from 1900 to 1932 the following description of the mill at its highest point of activity was kindly pro vided by grace harrington granddaugh ter of robert harrington daughter of de harrington the mill was structured in two levels with a stairway running up the outside of the building the upper level housed the work tables where sash and doors were made the molding for each door was also donein thisarea and the planing of lumber other activities on the upper level involved splitting the lumber into the required widths and the use of a fine vertical saw to make trim for houses in the area downstairs on the main floor machin ery for cutting veranda pillars and heavy lumber was situated this was also the location for the steam furnace that ran on sawdust or coal to find the lumber de would make occa sional trips tohuntsville and select what he needed it would be shipped by carload to union ville and with help of horses pro vided by uncle weatherill it would be taken down to the mill in 1928 de sold the mill to his brothers son arthur but ran it until 1932 arthur a tragic fire earlier this year destroyed the unionville planing mill seen here in its heyday continued the tradition until it finally pas sed out of the harrington family in1965 when it was purchased by alec giles with the burning of the planing mill a large part of the history of unionville has been lost it has become a memory in the minds of those old enough to remember and a matter of interest for the history books pony contest asks riding skill ability resident honored residents of unionville and unionville festival committee were deeply saddened last fall with the passing of clare ingram a long- term unionville resident and one of thp original founders of the fes tival committee seen in this photo taken at last years celebration where clare and ruth ingram were honored for their community work is glenn crosby former festival committee chairman and mpp don couscns left an exciting event is taking place north of the road leading to the library just after the parade is over gymkhana is a competition for children and their nonthoroughbred ponies combining riding skill and athletic ability on the part of the rider and speed and a good deal of cooperation from the pony organizer dave moores expects 25 to 30 riders competing in two classes novice for children 1 1 years of age and under and an open category for children 16 years old and under each horse and rider may enter timed events such as the soek race the barrel race pole bending and the keyhole race some of the more interesting competi tions include the barrel crawl where the rider must dismount and crawl through a barrel while not letting go of the ponys reins switch hands remount and cross the finish line childs eye view in the apple bobbing the rider must dis mount bob for an apple in a tub of water remount and ride to the finish line while retaining possession of the apple the sack race provides a different chal lenge the contestant must ride to the end of the arena get into a sack and hop back to the finish line leading his or her pony these last events usually result in a great many stray ponies and apples all contes tants must enter the showmanship com petition where the riders and ponies arc judgcdfor appearance all competitions have ribbons and cash prizes awarded for the first five places en try fee is 1 per event and cntriesare accepted up to the time of the competition for an actionpacked time at the festival make sure you attend the gymkhana com- petition at the library hed make some changes in running the festival if i kan the festival if i ran the festival the wholcworld would come well first of all all the games would be free talking about games some of them are pin the tail on the donkey fish pond and baseball dunk at my festival there would not be so many games because the kids would stay at the games and not go tosee the rest of the festival well now i have to move on secondly the rides i would liketo have if i ran the festival arc pony rides float rides and the horse carriage rides if i puttoo mqcjiridcstwojij4jalwupaillip thirdly i would like to talk to you about the food and candy which is going to be free and also the things that arc going o be sold but you arc going to have to pay for that the food i am going to have is hotdogs pop hamburgers and ice cream the can dies i am going to have is cottoncandy tof fee and candy apples the things that arc going to be sold arc mugs plates- and many more things that is how my festival is going to be run polly moncada grader rvwjijvw u jjnionville p