It is summer in West Michigan and that means it time for FAIR!!!! While West Michigan is blessed with numerous fairs with themes including balloons, tulips, babies cherries and even red flannel, when I refer to THE FAIR I mean the Kent County Youth Fair in Lowell. THE FAIR is August 6 -11, 2007 at the Kent County Fair Grounds just south of Lowell.
For the third consecutive year, we are sponsoring the Children’s Barnyard and providing a Children’s activity tent next to the Barnyard. The Children’s Barnyard is an opportunity for your children to get up close and personal with small farm animals. After visiting and petting the animals in the Children’s Barnyard, please bring your children to the Priority Mortgage Activity tent. With the help of many of our business partners and friends we will have different children’s activities each day. By popular demand, the bean bag toss will be back. The volunteers from the Humane Society of Kent County will have adoptable dogs each afternoon. Our friends from Cookies by Design will be back with free cookie coupons and I heard we might even have some goody bags to giveaway. Griff made me promise not to tell anyone that he plans to visit THE FAIR this year. I had better not give away any more of the surprises. You will just need to stop by our tent to see what is happening each day.
Did you know this is the 50th anniversary of the Frisbee? Fred Morrison flung a popcorn-tin lid to alleviate boredom at a Thanksgiving family picnic in 1937. Twenty years later, Wham-O bought the rights to Morrison’s “Pluto Platter”. Yale University students experienced tossing Frisbie Baking Co. pie tins, renamed it the Frisbee. I can not think of any thing that represents HOME GROWN FUN better than the Frisbee. Everyone has tossed a Frisbee in the backyard or nearby park. Some of you have taken it to greater heights with Frisbee Golf, made it your dog’s best friend or just tried to see how far you can toss the disc. The Frisbee is perfect for home grown fun; no assembly, no batteries, no computer, no moving parts and no noise.
That gives me an idea. Home grown fun is the theme of this year’s Fair. It is the 50th anniversary of the Frisbee and the 10th anniversary of Priority Mortgage. We should create a special anniversary Priority Mortgage Frisbee. We could give one to the first 500 kids (of all ages) who visit our tent at Fair. We could call it the Prisbee!!!! (Maybe I should check with Sherri, Linda and Joy on the name idea.)
Thanks,
Harry Gribnitz
Your Home Loan Specialist for Life!
PS: Thank you for continuing to refer friends, relatives and co-workers who might need our help to purchase or refinance their home. You support allows us to continue to support community activities like the Kent County Youth Fair.
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