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By Meagan Thomas
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October 13, 2011
- The heart of the Maple Leaf Festival is the large number of booths selling arts and crafts. For this year’s festival, organizers have received commitments for 320 booths filled with about 300 total vendors.
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By Meagan Thomas
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October 13, 2011
- The Maple Leaf Quilt Guild is hoping to promote interest in quilting and carry on tradition during its 40th Maple Leaf Festival Quilt Show.
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By Meagan Thomas
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October 13, 2011
- The Maple Leaf Festival is an important tradition to the Baldwin City community, but it also has special meaning for students, faculty and staff at Baker University.
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Signal Staff Reports
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October 13, 2011
- Saturday, Oct. 15
Maple Leaf 5K run, 8:30 a.m., Baldwin City Golf Course, 1500 South St.
Arts and Craft Show, 9 a.m.-6 p.m., downtown and in the grade school
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Signal Staff Reports
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October 13, 2011
- Here is the list of food booths, their sponsoring organizations and foods to be served at this year’s Maple Leaf Festival
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By Meagan Thomas
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October 13, 2011
- In 1973, having seen only one quilt show and in the midst of taking her first quilting class, Enola Gish made her contribution to the Maple Leaf Festival by starting the Maple Leaf Quilt Show.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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12:00 a.m., October 17, 2010 Updated 06:00 a.m.
- Warm, sunny weather Saturday and Sunday helped bring throngs to downtown streets for the 53rd annual Maple Leaf Festival.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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October 14, 2010
- Kit Harris is trying to make this year’s Maple Leaf Run the biggest ever, and thus far he’s feeling confident about reaching that goal.
Harris, a Baldwin City resident, has received numerous registration forms and several other people expressed interest in information about the run.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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October 14, 2010
- Two special guests from Lawrence will be in the annual Maple Leaf Festival grand parade, which begins at 11 a.m. Saturday.
Kansas University mascots Big Jay and Baby Jay will be making the trek from Lawrence to be in the 2010 fall festival parade, according to Jeremy Rodrock, parade committee chair.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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October 14, 2010
- This year’s Maple Leaf Festival Parade grand marshals have direct ties to one of the festival’s co-founders.
In fact, they are the children of Ivan Boyd, a late biology professor at Baker University who helped start the festival in 1958. Roger Boyd and Barbara Pressgrove will be the grand marshals of the 53rd annual festival.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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October 14, 2010
- A change to the layout for craft booths should create more room for foot traffic at the 53rd annual Maple Leaf Festival.
During the past several years, the middle of High Street has been filled with two rows of booths, while there were booths lining the edge of the street, as well. This year, the festival committee decided to allow only one row of booths down the middle of the street.
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By Jimmy Gillispie
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October 14, 2010
- It’s that annual time in Baldwin City where thousands of visitors flock to town to shop for homemade crafts, sample delicious foods and view colorful fall foliage.
The Maple Leaf Festival was founded in 1958. City. It’s now celebrated on the third full weekend of October. This year is the 53rd annual celebration of the festival.
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September 29, 2010
- The reunion will be Saturday, Oct. 16, at Hickory Creek Barbecue.
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By Jeff Myrick
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October 22, 2009
- After a cool start to the 52nd annual Maple Leaf Festival Saturday, the sun shined on the event for day two and another huge throng showed up for both days.
