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32nd annual festival draws 1,816 sets (plus triplets)
By John Higgins
Beacon Journal staff writer
Published on Sunday, Aug 03, 2008
The 61-year-old Archacki twins love Boston College football so much, they have a white business card with red lettering that includes their names, Jim and John Archacki, and reads simply: Boston College Fans.
The retired school janitors, wearing matching Boston College T-shirts and red Nike caps, also are big fans of the biggest gathering of twins in the world: the 32nd annual Twins Days Festival in Twinsburg, which concludes today.
They were among the 1,816 pairs of twins (and some triplets) who had registered by about 5 p.m. on Saturday.
The Archackis live in the Boston area and are Boston College season-ticket holders. They choose one road game to attend each year and this year, they will see Boston College play Kent State University at Cleveland Browns Stadium on Aug. 30.
''We liked Ohio so much, we're coming back,'' Jim Archacki said.
Their bond goes deeper than football.
Jim Archacki is a cancer survivor, thanks to his brother, who donated his own bone mar
row to treat Jim's non-Hodgkin's lymphoma.
''That was 22 years ago and the cancer never came back,'' John Archacki said. ''The bone marrow transplant worked.''
Another 61-year-old pair of twins, whose first names are also nearly identical — Arnette Avery-Brewer of Cleveland and Annette Avery Breckenridge of Cincinnati — missed last year's festival because they traveled to Ghana instead.
The African-American sisters, both social workers, were warmly welcomed in Ghana and had nearly identical dresses of bright blue and gold made there, which they wore Saturday.
The dresses were slightly different. Arnette Avery-Brewer's has brown buttons and Annette Avery Breckenridge's has yellow ones.
''The Africans won't make anything just alike,'' Arnette Avery Breckenridge explained. Each piece must be unique.
''There are a lot of twins in Ghana,'' she added. ''They think it brings good fortune.''
The 12-year-old Herman twins of Stow wore their good fortune around their necks: second-place medals for sisters who look most alike in their age group.
Ali and Dani competed among 22 sets of twins age 11 and 12. The blond girls wore green-striped tank tops, beige skirts and green sandals.
When asked whether they'd been to the Twins Days Festival before, they answered, in unison: ''We've been coming here since we were 6 months old.''
The festival continues today until 7 p.m. There's a pancake breakfast at 8 a.m. and an interdenominational church service at 10 a.m.
Children may want to visit the kids carnival run by Twinsburg Cub Scouts Pack 677, which opens at noon. The carnival has been a fixture of Twins Days. Games of skill include attempting to launch a plastic frog into an inflatable swimming pool so that it lands on a Frisbee — er, lily pad.
''The best part about this kids carnival, everyone's a winner,'' said Edie Dale, wife of Cub master Peter Dale.
The pack does not have any twin cubs at the moment.
''We just had a set graduate to Boy Scouts,'' Edie Dale said.
The festival — held in Glenn Chamberlin Park behind Chamberlin Middle School on Ravenna Road — includes entertainment, crafts and twin-related booths, research areas, rides, games, food and souvenirs.
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John Higgins can be reached at 330-996-3792 or jhiggins@thebeaconjournal.com.
The 61-year-old Archacki twins love Boston College football so much, they have a white business card with red lettering that includes their names, Jim and John Archacki, and reads simply: Boston College Fans.
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