
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, July 8, 1993                   TAG: 9307080449
SECTION: NEIGHBORS                    PAGE: W-11   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: CHARLES STEBBINS
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Short

SALEM FESTIVAL MARKS MARKET'S 2ND SEASON

An ugly-vegetable contest will be one of the features of a summer festival July 17 at the Salem Farmers' Market.

The contest will begin at noon and will feature misshapened potatoes, tomatoes, squash, cucumbers or any other vegetable.

The contest will be one of several events celebrating the market's second summer at Main and Broad streets in downtown Salem.

Activities, scheduled from 8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m., will include bluegrass music, the Purple Dinosaur, a country line dance demonstration, and a fiddle and banjo program.

Farmers will sell locally grown produce from 6 a.m. until sunset. The market is open from April 1 through Dec. 30.

by CNB