Troy celebrates the apple
Cole Wilson makes a jab at one of the giant bubbles Josie Griffiths created Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival with a bubble wand sold as a fundraiser for the After School Program at Troy Public Schools. The staff and students have ongoing fundraising efforts in order to keep the program going, including a Fall Dinner fundraiser at W.F. Morrison Elementary on November 15. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
Anthony South, with the Yaak Valley Forest Council, operates the apple press Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
RIGHT: Cynthia Garrison of the Troy Farmer’s Market offers a slice of one of the several pies contestants entered Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. (Benjamin Kibbey/The Western News)
Beth Syron spins wool Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
Shawna Kelsey, with the Troy Farmer’s Market and Yaak Valley Forest Council, serves up a slice of Carol Lisle’s prize-winning apple pie Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. Lisle’s pie won second place, and first went to Karyn Larsen’s apple pie pictured to the left. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
Nicholas Silbermann loads apples into the press Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. Silbermann said it was the second year his family has brought their apples to press, and he particularly enjoys the apple cider mixed with pear cider. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
Daniel Silbermann pours freshly squeezed cider from the apples he and his children harvested at home, Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
Trina Kerzman with Kootenai Kiwanis makes cotton candy Friday at the Troy Farmer’s Market Apple Festival. The Kiwanis were at the festival -- as they are at other events around the area -- raising money to buy school supplies for local students. (Ben Kibbey/The Western News)
The Troy Farmer’s Market hosted the annual Troy Apple Festival Friday, featuring an apple pie contest with Karyn Larsen winning first place and Carol Lisle second. Community members also brought their apples from home to be pressed into cider for free, and took in live music.
In addition to the many regular vendors and a few special vendors for the festival, staff from Troy Public Schools were present selling bubble wands that students from the After School Program helped to make as part of ongoing fundraising to support the program. The Kootenai Kiwanis were also at the festival continuing to raise money to purchase supplies for Lincoln County students.
The festival also had information from area organizations and agencies and a raffle of useful items such as a bear-safe trash can.
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