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    LORDSTOWN — When Jordyn Shaffer, 3, came down the tall slide Saturday afternoon with her cousin, Corrina Morrow of Leavittsburg, at the Lordstown Apple Cider Festival, it appeared Jordyn was enjoying the ride, but she may have been a bit nervous.

    But once Jordyn got to the bottom and stood up, her emotions came out.

    “That was fun,” she said to her family, jumping up and down several times.

    Jordyn and lots of others seemed to be enjoying the rides, apple cider, indoor craft show and outdoor car show in pleasant fall weather.

    Kathy Kump of Cleveland took some joy in sitting in the red, 2020 mid-engine Corvette owned by Nick Carano of Girard at the car show.

    Kump said she was talking to Carano and uncorked an unusual question.

    “I just randomly said ‘Hey, can I take it for a drive?’ and he handed me the keys,” Kump said. She sat in the car and turned on the ignition.

    What did she like about it?

    “The rumble” of the engine, she said. She was talking about the sound but also the feel, she said.

    Kump did not get to actually drive the car, but it was memorable nonetheless, she said.

    Carano also entertained Linda Livermore of Austintown. Livermore asked about the cockatoo on Carano’s shoulder, leading to a discussion in which Carano told her the bird is 28 years old. Carano said some cockatoos have lived to be 80.

    Elsewhere on the grounds of the Lordstown schools complex at the corner of Salt Springs Road and state Route 45, the Lordstown Lions Club was pressing and selling apple cider. Audie Reed of Girard was on the front end of the process Saturday, dumping apples into the part of the press that grinds the fruit into liquid paste that looks like cole slaw.

    The material then goes into a bag that looks like a burlap sack and then into the press, which slowly squishes the cider out. The cider then gets bottled.

    James Brown, king lion of the Lordstown Lions Club, was working with Eric Lipscomb of Girard on the pressing operation.

    Brown showed the part of the apple that remains after pressing is done. It looked like a sheet of granola. The Lions Club has someone who hauls away that material for use as compost in his garden, Brown said.

    The apples came from Kiraly Orchards on Ridge Road in Ashtabula. The apples used this year included Red Delicious and Granny Smith, Brown said.

    A key is to mix sweet and tart apples, Brown said. “We have the best apple cider,” he boasted.

    The amount of apple cider sold late Friday and in the first half of the day Saturday — over 300 gallons — is a pretty large amount, Brown said.

    The festival was not held last year because of COVID-19, but attendance so far was pretty good, Sharyn Dietz, festival committe secretary, said.

    The festival, which has no admission charge, continues today with a 5-K run at 10 a.m., rides noon to 8 p.m. craft show noon to 5 p.m., bingo 1 to 6 p.m., parade at 3 p.m. music by the steel drum band Pantropics 4 to 7 p.m. and closing of the midway at 9 p.m.



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