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day he opens, however.

“Some people don’t care,” he said.

“It’s a ‘you pick’ orchard. And,

they’ll bring their kids out, see a big

apple and pick a big apple. It’s all

Manager of the you-pick apple

business Canaan Orchard, Dave

Salerno, shows early ripening Gala

apples that have helped to kick off

an early apple season expected to

begin Aug. 24. (Shopper News photo by

Shelly Kehrle-Sulser)

right. What I’ll do is, I’ll put the sign

out when they’re ripe. Or, say, ‘the

best picking is this.’”

Mid season varieties include

Jonathans and Empires.

The frequent, torrential rainfalls

this year, too, have contributed to the

quality of the apples.

“I think it made them a little bit

bigger,” said Salerno. “The size

of the apples, would be impacted.

There’s two things that were unusu-

ally heavy this year. One was the

rain and one was the deer browsing.”

The latter has forced Salerno to

spray some of the smaller trees to

ward off the deer.

“What I want to do is get them to

at least four foot,” he said. “Once

this gets to four foot, they can chew

all they want, this will keep grow-

ing. But if they don’t get above four

foot...”

Canaan is located at 14810 Roof

Drive just off 44th Street on a

100-year-old homestead owned by

the Roof family.

Local activist and entertainer

Bobby Holley will be holding his

last free bike giveaway this year

for children in need on Saturday,

Aug. 17.

Holley is partnering with Tim

Kool, owner and CEO of Heritage

Chevrolet, and the Church of

Living Water for the event, which

will be held at Heritage Chevrolet,

350 W. Dickman Road, from 1-

p.m.

Holley added that winners have

been picked.

Holley said he has given more

than 300 bicycles to children ages

5-11 years old (grades K-6) this

year.

Children had to write an essay

about why they needed a bike.

“Most of these essays came

through their area schools and

were judged by the Church of

Living Water team, made up of

Starla Thompson, Tim Johnston,

Candace Leibert, Dave and Linda

Hyslop, and Herb Love,” said

Holley.

Thompson and Johnston also

raised funds through can and

bottle collections, and also helped

Holley with other aspects of the

bike campaign to make it a suc-

cess, noted Holley.

Holley’s last bike giveaway

of year is this Saturday