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| CRAN-ANNE LOOK-ALIKE CONTEST
Our next contest will be on Saturday, 2 pm, October 18, 2008. Bala’s Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery 1024 Maple Ave. Corner of Maple Ave. and River street, 2 blocks off the main street. The 2008 Cran-Anne Look-Alike is part of a cross-Canada year-long celebration of the publishing of "Anne of Green Gables" in 1908. If you can’t get to Prince Edward Island this year, the next best thing will be coming to Bala’s Museum with Memories of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Once again, our contest will be an excellent opportunity to enjoy the Bala Cranberry Festival, which has become one of the most popular small town fairs in all Ontario. It attracts up to 25,000 people to a Muskoka resort town that has only 500 people year-round. There will be a small cost to participate in the contest – $1 for the contestant, plus a Cranberry Festival button. Contestants should arrive by 1:30 to be registered. The big question is what Anne of Green Gables would look like if she showed up at the Bala Cranberry Festival. The judges base their selection upon the contestants’ knowledge of Anne of Green Gables, their costumes and – perhaps most important of all – their Anne-ness. Every year, a young girl shows up who is just right. This is a great family outing that Anne Shirley and Diana would have enjoyed immensely. Plan to tour the museum either before or after the contest. And don’t miss the Anne of Green Gables gift shop! Every one of our contestants can count upon receiving a prize. To learn more: Just call us at 1-888-579-7739, or e-mail us at balamus@muskoka.com You can see last year’s contest on video! If you have high-speed Internet, you can peek at the winner of our 2007 Cran-Anne contest. Six-year-old Megan Thompson of Parry Sound became an instant celebrity after her photograph appeared in a prominent article in The Toronto Star immediately after our contest. Reporter John Goddard not only wrote an article which occupied two-thirds of a page. He also created a video which can still be seen by clicking the following Weblink: www.thestar.com/article/266864 You will see and hear Megan being interviewed by judges Mari Carson and Eunice MacLeod. (Remember that you will require high-speed Internet to see the video) Our proud winners:
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is 6-year-old Megan Thompson at the right, winner of last year’s Cran-Anne
Look-Alike contest at Bala’s Museum. Her popular win marked the first time
that two sisters have won the contest in succeeding years. Megan’s older
sister, Sara, was the winner in 2006 at the age of 8.
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