{"id":2970,"date":"2024-05-16T14:40:41","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/?p=2970"},"modified":"2024-05-16T14:54:50","modified_gmt":"2024-05-16T18:54:50","slug":"volunteers-needed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/?p=2970","title":{"rendered":"Volunteers Needed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Volunteers-Needed-2024-300x251.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2971 alignleft\" srcset=\"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Volunteers-Needed-2024-300x251.png 300w, http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Volunteers-Needed-2024-768x644.png 768w, http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/05\/Volunteers-Needed-2024.png 940w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The main focus of the Bayfield Agricultural Society is the Bayfield Community Fair \u2013 a three-day festival that brings rural and urban residents together through competitions, entertainment, and displays of animals and agricultural equipment. The Fair is always held on the third weekend in August. This year\u2019s Fair will take place on August 16 \u2013 18.<\/p>\n<p>The expression \u201cit takes a village\u201d applies most aptly when considering how the Fair comes together each year. It\u2019s never too early to start recruiting volunteers to help with all aspects of organizing the Fair.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re looking for additional volunteers to head sections of the Fair, some taking a couple of hours and others as much as 5-10 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Specific areas of the Fair that we currently need volunteers for include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Farm products coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Fruits &amp; Vegetables coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Gate assistance<\/li>\n<li>Volunteer coordinator<\/li>\n<li>Parade day assistance<\/li>\n<li>Setup and take-down after the Fair<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The response from the community in 2023 brought volunteers \u2013 both young people and those more seasoned \u2013 who worked together to get the fairgrounds ready and help put on last year\u2019s Fair.<\/p>\n<p>Volunteering gives anyone interested the opportunity to draw on personal strengths while supporting a good cause; grow leadership skills in a supportive environment; meet new people; and share new ideas.<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who can spare a few hours or more to help out with the 2024 Bayfield Fair is kindly asked to email <a href=\"mailto:info@bayfieldfair.ca\">info@bayfieldfair.ca<\/a> or complete the online <a href=\"https:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/?page_id=221\">Volunteer Signup<\/a> form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The main focus of the Bayfield Agricultural Society is the Bayfield Community Fair \u2013 a three-day festival that brings rural and urban residents together through competitions, entertainment, and displays of animals and agricultural equipment. The Fair is always held on the third weekend in August. This year\u2019s Fair will take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-messages"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2970"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2972,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2970\/revisions\/2972"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}