Lake Front News July 25 2019
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Vol. 87, No. 7 © Barb Clemons - Publisher, P.O. Box K, Port Clinton, OH 43452
July 25 - 31, 2019 FAX 419-732-3664 • e-mail lakefrnt@thirdplanet.net • www.LakeErieVacations.com
Peaches - 2019
Peach Festival Is August 3
By Brad Schwan, Schwan Orchards, Catawba
When I was a young man my mother had a friend who had a peach orchard on Catawba Island. She had a standing order for a big bunch of peaches each year which would turn into several of my favorite peach pies. I can vividly remember the annual question “How are the peaches this year?” I found this didn’t mean “How do they taste?” Often the reply was, “No peaches this year”. Subconsciously I came to understand the fragile nature of this endeavor. Perhaps that challenge is what drew me to grow peaches myself.
Until the early 1900’s, Catawba Island was known for its fabulous grape production. By 1915 almost the entire township was a mass of peach orchards. The majority of those survived until the 1950’s when land values provided the aging farmers a nice way to exit the temperamental vocation.
Today there are only a few of us brave (or foolish) peach farmers to continue the Catawba peach tradition. We face the same Continued on page 9
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This Scholarship Helps Entrepreneurs
By Marcia Jess, Ottawa County Community Foundation
Corinna and Kurt Bench are entrepreneurs in the truest sense of the word. They have taken their love of farming and healthy eating
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