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Scarboro Fare Fair 1994
November 11-12, 1994
Quiz-Time!
Prizes!
Exploring the Past, Present and Future
Nutritional Needs and Expectations
of the Scarborough Family
The answers to the following quiz questions are all easily
located in the available literature from the 30 or so food-related non-profit groups and
farm marketing boards.
Please write your answer on a scrap of paper (lots available at the registration
table!) Be sure to write your name and the number of the question on your answer sheet.
The boxes in which you should deposit your answers are numbered accordingly. Please place
your answer in the correct box. (Please do not remove any literature that is taped to the
table or wall.) Otherwise, the literature is available for you to take home.
- How many Breakfast Clubs do the Toronto Children's Breakfast operate in Toronto?
- How many people participated in the Agincourt Community Services Association food
alternatives program in Scarboro in 1993?
- If Canadians could make only ONE choice to improve their diet, what would be the
best one to make?
- Kids! What Ontario Historical Society publication should you read to discover the
history of Breakfast?
- What can a consumer learn from the Canadian Organic Growers?
- Why does the McCowan Society want you to record your personal recollections of
feeding the family?
- Apart from The Scarboro Heights Record which community institutions were the
principal community organizers of Scarboro Fare Fair 1994?
- Which McCowan Society publication regarding Fairs did Beatriz McCowan sponsor?
- If you purchase a copy of "Fairs and Frolics: Scottish Communities at Work
and Play" for $6 and fill in the draw ballot, what grand prize might you win?
- What is happening July 14 to 16, 1995, at the Ontario Agricultural
Museum?
- How many people volunteer for the Daily Bread Food Bank?
- If you take a vacation on an Ontario farm what should you tell your
children?
- How does Coping In Tough Times help with respect to feeding the
family?
- From whom can you buy a Good Food Box and a Mom-To-Be-Box?
- Who aims to establish community gardening, contribute to urban food
production and further the greening of Metro Toronto?
- How does Second Harvest deliver surplus perishable food to the hungry
and needy?
- Why does Toronto need a Food Policy Council?
- What is the Mission of the Scarborough Hunger Coalition?
- Which group publishes the Food Action newsletter?
- Kids! What does Variety do to feel great?
- What four main food groups are all part of healthy eating?
- In what three ways can Metro Community Services' Home Management
Specialist help you feed the family?
- Kids! How many daily servings of milk products should you have?
- Which body parts benefit from calcium intake?
- What is the name of the group in Canada that promotes an
understanding of food insecurity on a global scale year-round?
- What are the first two steps that you should take toward a healthy
heart.
- What are the four best sources of soluble fiber ?
- Name a recipe that might give some symptomatic relief to those
suffering from Myalgic Encephalomyelitis.
- What foods are iron enhancers?
- What is saturated fat?
- What percentage of total annual worldwide methane production is
generated by Canadian cattle?
- How many acres of apple orchards are there in Southern Ontario?
- At what temperature should you store apples?
- When and where did the McIntosh apple variety originate?
- What organization certifies domestic gas cooking ranges to Canadian
safety standards?
- Who sponsored the recent contest "Mealtimes, Family Times"?
- What are two of the best early measures for prevention of
osteoporosis?
- If you develop stomach cramps after drinking a full glass of milk on
an empty stomach, what might perhaps be the reason?
- How much oxygen is released by one acre of corn?
- Why should potatoes not be stored in the refrigerator?
Acknowledgements
We are very grateful to many individuals, corporations and organizations for their kind
contributions to these projects. In particular, I wish to personally thank Barry Nesbitt
and his lovely wife, Jean, for devoting so much time and effort to promotion and media
contact.
Thanks to our many prize and refreshment donors:
Fiesta Barbecues Ltd., Mississauga, for the Grand Prize Barbecue; Ault Foods, Don
Mills; Ontario Historical Society; The Becker Milk Company Limited, Scarborough; Oxford
University Press, Toronto; University of Toronto Press, Toronto; McClelland and Stewart,
Toronto; Richardson's Tartan Shop; Dundurn Press and Hounslow Press, Toronto; Natural
Heritage / Natural History, Toronto; SmithBooks, Toronto; Coles Bookstores Ltd., Toronto;
MacNeil's Scottish Imports; Ollie's Taps and Grill, Scarborough; Ontario Apple Marketing
Commission; Bonnie Briar's Pub & Restaurant, Scarborough; McDonald's Restaurant,
Scarborough; Health and Specialty Foods, Scarborough; Meera Mathias, Scarborough,
Dietician; James McCowan Memorial Social History Society; General Publishing, Don Mills;
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Scarborough Chapter; Hostess Frito-Lay,
Scarborough; St. Andrew's Fish and Chips, Scarborough; Dempsey-Rand, Udora; Callander
House, Downsview; Like Magic Productions; Arby's, Scarborough; Whittamore's Berry Farm,
Markham; Watson's Fruit Farm, Scarborough; Tootsie Roll of Canada, Scarborough; McCowan's
Highland Toffee, Scotland; Sunlike Juice, Scarborough; Tradition Fine Foods, Don Mills;
Knob Hill Farms, Scarborough; Super Pufft Popcorn, Scarborough; Business Depot,
Scarborough; Ontario Pork; Dairy Bureau of Canada.
And for our entertainment, we wish to thank:
Fred Crossley; The Toronto Toe Tappers; Murray Smith; Bob Dunk; The Cast of A Scarboro
Tale.
For providing colourful posters here and for their assistance with promotion and in
various other ways, thanks to:
Jamie Ramesbottom and Wilmar Heights Non-Profit Homes; Markham Fair; Ministry of
Agriculture Information Centre; Morningside Mall; Kennedy Road Business Association; and
the almost countless offices and retail stores who permitted our promotional literature on
their premises.
And thanks to the Media for exceptional coverage.
Hope you enjoyed SCARBORO FARE FAIR 1994.
I would be pleased to provide you with a complete list of the names and addresses of
the organizations and marketing boards that participated in Scarboro Fare Fair 1994.
Please contact me
The Program for Scarboro
Fare Fair 1994 was printed as a special supplement to Vol 2 of The Scarboro Heights Record.
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