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2008 Apple Fest

4TH Annual AppleFest 2009

Celebrating Western PA's apples, apple growers and apple products. The best apples, the best cider and the best apple pies anywhere - no exceptions!

What:
Pie contest, Music, Apples to taste and buy. More!

When: Saturday, October 24
11am to 2pm.

Where: Union Project, Stanton and Negley Avenues, Highland Park

Price: FREE ADMISSION
Regional apples to taste and buy
Buy Apples and Cider from orchards surrounding the city

HAPPY 4TH BIRTHDAY, APPLEFEST! Pittsburgh's annual community celebration of local apples and apple pie does not age! Neither will you if you eat an apple every day.

Pie Judges:
Chief Justices: Bill Fuller, Exec. Chef, Big Burrito Restaurant Group
Chris Rawson, Former Post-Gazette Theater Critic and writer about town
Kate Chenowyth, Pittsburgh Magazine
Miriam Manion, Grow Pittsburgh
Nancy Hanst, teacher/food writer, Post-Gazette, Table Magazine
Katy Werner, Phipps Conservatory
Greg Boulos and Jen Montgomery, co-owners of Blackberry Meadows organic farm, he, Western Pennsylvania Director of Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture, she, manager of Blackberry Meadows
Donna Wolfe, pastry chef.

THE SCHEDULE:
Pies entered into contest by 12 noon with $5 registration fee
Pie Judging 12-1:30
Slices of Pie a la mode: 1:00
Awards announced 1:30

Pie a la mode ("Oh Yeah" ice cream) at 1 pm

While you wait for your slice of pie:
Pittsburgh singer-songmaker: Brad Yoder and his not too loud but very fine funky little folk-rock-pop songs, accompanied on bass

"All in J.E.S.T." Mother&Son Juggling Team:
Kathy Doutt and Stephen,14, on the Chinese Yoyo.

Unitarian Folk Orchestra
with, we hope, the church's songbird minister

Pie Haiku
On the Spot Pie-Ku Contest
Write 17 syllables in 3 lines. Include a "season" word such as "crisp."
Best entries win a slice of pie a la mode.

Taste and buy goat cheese:
Sam Byler's Riverview Dairy in Emlenton, Pa.