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p16 wssjtenotr3uuvtll0il93 beautiful baby contests continue to pack in fans while beauty pageants and bikini contests may have been nixed by the politically correct revolution the old fashioned baby contest continues to pack em in at small town fairs although according to joe champion of the stouffville progress club which ran its eighth such competition as part of stouffvilles annual straw berry festival this canada day past the concept can be every bit as explosive as those now- taboo sexist extravaganzas armed with the experience that comes from having hosted more than a few of these infant parades in the past joe decided to set things straight right off the bat july 1 morning the problem parents or more specifically grandparents who only have fyiwe 3bmmf 1 12 lb approx lobster combined with a rack ofbbq ribs 2495 during july and august private rooms available for banquets 20100 eyes for their own ilk anyone who has ever watched a grand parent fawn over his or her own offsprings offspring is aware of the phenomena only a few years ago when i suggested to my own mother that my sisters newest arrival came by his nick name hog honestly she threw a glare my way that would have frozen over the most sultry summer day apparently joe and his progress club pals have encountered the odd overzeal- ous grandparent in contests past with the partisan behav ior of these biased grannies and grandpas causing complaints to be registered with the club so joe came right out and announced at the outset thurs day repeating himself later on that this was strictly a fun con test anyone whose very life would be thrown into a tizzy if their baby or their babys baby didnt place in the top three should pull out the idea was to lighten up those for whom a baby contest is like a world series it was also meant to provide a little protection for the three judges betty dart and the brothersister team of violet love and bill butler all three of whom are respectable grand parents the strategy worked as there were no cat calls from parents or grandparents upon the announcement of the winners in all four categories the only snag came when for the first time a set of twins was entered in the nine to eleven month category joe who had been sailing along admirably in his role as from where i live bruce stapley master of ceremonies until then was temporarily befud dled would the duo count as one entry or two he made a spur of the moment decision deciding to make one out of two and the joint effort became a solo opera tion my wife susan paraded our eightmonthold son drew who was clad in a snappy golf outfit given to him the night before by you guessed it his grand mother who upon learning her first ever grandson had been bypassed mumbled something about small town judges know ing diddly about cute once she had finally accepted that her little man hadnt stood a chance against the baby girls with their strawberry bonnets and frilly dresses susan con tented herself with the fact that 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