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The Kaiserslautern Garden Fair will reopen its doors Thursday.
This year, the park celebrates its 10th anniversary. Through Oct. 31, visitors can enjoy a lot of special events, activities, entertainment, exhibitions and flowers.
Just like last year, the event will be promoted on big posters, which will be placed in about 50 locations around the city of Kaiserslautern and its surrounding areas.
In the beginning of the year, garden fair officials were looking for people who were interested in getting photographed for these posters.
During a recent press conference the new garden fair faces were presented.
“We had about 100 applicants, and a jury of 11 persons chose this year’s faces,” said garden fair spokeswoman Sandra Laux. “Each poster shows one or two faces and announces two special events for a period of about four weeks.”
Jeanie Veith, who works for RTT on Ramstein, is one of the American faces. She read about the promotion campaign in the Kaiserslautern American and decided to apply.
“I wanted to help the garden fair to find Americans, who have a unique relationship to the location,” said Mrs. Veith, who has lived in Germany for 28 years. “I’m a frequent visitor of the park and whenever I have guests visiting us I take them there.”
U.S. Army member Richard Glenn and his wife Donna are the other two faces that can be seen on posters, English-speaking flyers and brochures.
“We just love nature, that’s why we applied for this campaign,” Mr. Glenn said.
“We enjoyed the beautiful flowers last year and our 7-year-old daughter loves the dinosaurs,” his wife added.
Kaiserslautern’s Lord Mayor, Dr. Klaus Weichel, thanked all applicants for their engagement.
“Pretty soon you will be a daily part of the cityscape, and people will approach you asking if it is your face on the poster,” Dr. Weichel said. “Our citizens, including our American friends, love the garden fair.”
As a thank you, every poster model received a season ticket for the fair and a small poster.
The garden fair is open from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday to Friday, and 10 a.m. to
7 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Daily tickets cost €3 for children and €6 for adults. The family ticket is €15. Customers of the Technical Works Kaiserslautern (TWK) or the Kaiserslautern gas company (Gasanstalt) have the opportunity to buy the season ticket for €15.
For more information, call the garden fair at 0631-71007-0 or visit their Web site at www.gartenschau-kl.de.
