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highlights of festival fun run old firehall sports is again sponsoring the unionville festival 5k and 10k run organizers expect at least 450 runners this year competing in 12 categories including a family class where as many as 30 fami lies are expected to enter prizes will be awarded in all categories with medals and merchandise gifts don ated by local businesses pins will be given to all runners the run will start at old fire hall sports oh main street and the finish line is at cros by arena where postrace refreshments- will be served and the awards ceremony held the following is an article contributed by shannon homer 13 who has been running for the past seven years and is one of the children who make up over half of the fes- tival run entrants by shannon homer william berczy public school unionville its unionville festival time again i hope you are entered in the 5k race sunday morning june 5 lots of fun and prizes for kids and adults if you have not signed up yet make sure tobe at crosby arena at 730 am to register here is a runthrough of the 5k or 31 mile course preregistrants check in by 8 am to receive your name tag pin and if you were among the first 300 to register your free tshirt warm up well 10 to 20 minutes before the race at 830 amsharp runners will be lined up at old firehall sports store on main street start well back or you may get trampled by the hotshots bang the gun goes off andyouarerun- ning north on kennedy road across the bridge and past the library dont go too fast or youll have nothing left for the end up past the fire hall the pack has thin ned out by now you should have settled into your pace the 10k runners go straight up the lull but the 5k crowd turns left at lgth enjoy the short downhill across the creek before going up the other side its a long stretch past york downs golf course but you can sec lots of runners both ahead and behind you turn left at village parkway corner its tempting to stop but youre more than half way now from beckers to the arena its all downhill or at least flat we are turning right at the bottom of carlton road begin picking up your pace at the pond this last 400 metres seem like a million but hang in there you can see the finish everyone is cheering you on now sprint into the chute hurray youve finished when you have cooled down dont forget to stretch a little so yourmuscles dont get sore join the other runners upstairs at crosby arena for refreshments and prizes its been worthwhile hasnt it good luck everyone did you know did you know that in the late 1800s gypsies came to unionville to trade horses indians put on medicine shows at crosby hall farmers had a parade once a year to demonstrate new farm implements unionville north of the bridge near st philips church was called new york and south of the bridge called brooklyn in new york there used to be two hotels a candy store and a drug store one had to travel by train to markham the pond would freeze 20 inches deep farmers would cut it in large chunks and take it home to put in their milk houses to keep milk in summer mail was delivered christmas morning until 11 am in 1907 postage was 01 cents in 1910 there were about 500 people in unionville- the unionville standard times 19 aimm f the clnioomilie pfestisal r fc is- oo he uroo oghatye vtroe jt have n is fec the vioes noaw ivhe uoionoile restios 03 oo oh x an seaocct in ihe vvttanfeci house ts or iht pnefftj vases t hsh o on so i s q fhe 7 ionqs x sec u is 9oo odq 0icfure fnetf have for soe l3 -for- op takinoj cold is to aufipqhijg rvoftr j v x aap da of- unionithe fesfuol unionville festival on a warm summer day we can go out and play for the unionville festival is on the track and it will soon be back its also a day where you can walk down the street and have no problems with cars in fleets theres lots of candies and ice cream cones haunted houses with creaky bones its a day filled with lots of fun and its a day where you can run a jolly day filled with exciting times a day where you would spend more than a dime kurt gengenbach grade 6 unionville ps bicycles banned as well visitors to our town during fes tival are cautioned against bicycle rid ing on main street unionville the main artery is closed to all vehi- culer traffic in cluding bicycles so that visitors may enjoy a leisurely stroll without the hazards of moving vehicles uii imkjyjjjir