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Oktoberfest merrily serves up best of Bavaria By WENDY SHAFFER Herald Staff Writer Palm trees may replace alps, but everything else is genuinely German during Oktoberfest in Fort Lauderdale, starting this weekend. A trip to Bubier Park is the next best thing to a Bavarian vacation during the free six-day event Lauderdale. sponsored by the city's Parks and been to Germany, Recreation Department. they can go "The whole setup is like a This is the typical German beer garden. The festival, beer.

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10-0 SUNDAY 12-5 Sheribel wicke "Everybody that's not that's one place and experience 11th year for the patterned after Munich's and the first time be held over two "We had such a great turnout last year, 25,000 people, we decided to give it a try," said Paul Jamieson, the city's special events coordinator, who expects twice as many this year. "Besides, going over two weeks we can attract bands we never had before." Featured under the giant blueand-white Bavarian beer tent will be Thomas Arzberger, the Alpine Yodeler from Germany; the Continentals of Washington, D.C.; and the Sauerkrauts, formerly of Epcot. Local entertainers include Bill Schoenfeldt's Swinging Bavarians, Herb Kusber's Mountain Kings and the Uwe Zehme Show. "We make a real effort to make our Oktoberfest very authentic," Jamieson said. "The funny thing is the Germans are trying to make their Oktoberfest more Americanized because of all the tourists and we are trying to make ours more German." Giant ceramic pretzels, strolling yodelers, Alpine horns and revelers dressed in traditional dirndls and lederhosen will contribute to the authentic atmosphere.

"I'd like to tell everyone if they have a dirndl or lederhosen to wear it and join in," Armstrong said. "The more the merrier." The food is authentic, too. Actually, with more than 30 varieties of German fare, from apple strudel to Zwiebelfleisch, the event should be called Oktober'feast'. Or, how about Okto'beer'fest in honor of the official beverage of Bavaria? Twenty-five taps will pour domestic and Dinkelacker beer. Officials estimate that more than 120,000 glasses of brew and an additional 500 cases of German wine, wine coolers and schnapps will be consumed.

Broward residents can enjoy Oktoberfest this weekend, as Steve Brownstein did last OKTOBERFEST WHEN noon to midnight Friday and Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday and Oct. 23-25. WHERE Bubier Park, at East Las Olas Boulevard and Andrews Avenue in Fort Lauderdale. COST Free.

DETAILS 761-5360. Prosit! Hallandale Celebration offers a hometown party By VICTORIA FLOYD ing of a city began. Herald Staff Writer The free celebration, which will Hallandale observes its 60th be held at the Gulfstream Race anniversary Saturday and Sunday, Track in Hallandale, includes a celebrating its evolution from a 20-piece barbershop quartet, Rick rural, tomato-growing area to the Carmen and the Starlighters, a hometown its residents know to- Dixie jazz band, the Gold Coast day. Cloggers and a celebration of the "The city once upon a time bicentennial of the U.S. Constitufought with Dania to be called the tion.

tomato capital of the world be- A western shoot-out, country cause the area was full of tomato music, Locomotion Children's Thepatches," Mayor Arthur "Sonny" atre, and the Broward Ballet Rosenberg said. Academy will entertain adults and During the early years, farming children, who will be able to dominated the area. Then condo- sample offerings from an internaminiums sprang up and the mak- tional food fair. Twice the Quality the Price We Ship Anywhere HERALD IWVIW 041 Neighbors Published Sunday and Thursday Dorothy Klein, Editor Rebecca Ross Albers, Assistant Editor John Kircher, Advertising Manager Office: 721-1400 Circulation: 979-3770 9341 NW 57th Tamarac, Fla. 33321 ANW.