The ingredients

of a good circus include trained wild animals, music, funny clowns, breath

taking acrobatics, and enough thrills and laughs to keep you entertained

during the show.

The L.E. Barnes

Circus, which comes to the Coweta County Fairgrounds this weekend, promises

all of those things and more.

Produced in

association with Jungleland Zoo of Orlando, Fla., the L.E. Barnes Circus

will have animals of all kinds under the big top. Dave Hoover, star of

TV and motion pictures, will appear in the steel arena with the Black-maned

African Fighting Lions and the Bengal Tigers. There will also be llamas,

horses, elephants, pigmy goats, camels and zebras.

Audiences will

also get a chance to see the 1996 silver medalists from Bulgaria, the

entire ladies rhythmic gymnastics team. Other amazing performances will

include the Goulavich Family from Russia, Armando Christiani, a world

champion trampoline artist, the Petrov troupe, performing their one-of-a-kind

Risley routine and the "Silver Eagle." Veselina Gencheva, the

"Silver Eagle" placed seventh in the 1996 Olympics as a member

of the Bulgarian ladies gymnastic team. She now gets propelled over 100

feet in the air as she is shot from a monstrous cannon.

The L.E. Barnes

Circus harkens