{"id":541,"date":"2014-09-22T08:19:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:19:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bayfieldfallfair.ca\/?p=541"},"modified":"2014-09-22T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-22T13:19:55","slug":"10-signs-of-a-great-small-town-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/?p=541","title":{"rendered":"10 Signs of a Great Small Town Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">A glance back at the 2014 fair generated some interesting facts:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>1.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Over 100 different volunteers worked at the fair.<\/p>\n<p>2.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>There were 160 more entries in the indoor exhibits this year compared to last year.<\/p>\n<p>3.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Exhibitors from Calgary were from the farthest distance<\/p>\n<p>4.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>A pipe band marched through the arena.<\/p>\n<p>5.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The handcrafts section handed out more than $1000 in prizes with 310 exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>6.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>The flowers and plants section had the second most entries with 303 exhibits.<\/p>\n<p>7.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Exhibitors came from Toronto, Mississauga, Cambridge, Hamilton, and Leamington.<\/p>\n<p>8.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Thirty 4-H exhibitors took part in the sheep show.<\/p>\n<p>9.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Over 500 meals of ribs were sold.<\/p>\n<p>10.<span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0\u00a0 <\/span>Dr. Charles Wallace was the honorary parade marshal.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">The next meeting for the Ag Society will be Monday October 6 at 7 pm in the basement of St. Andrew\u2019s United Church.\u00a0 It is a wonderful time to join the group as planning is just evolving for the 2015 fair.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Times New Roman;\">One of the organization\u2019s fundraisers is the sale of Christmas wreaths made from local grapevines and evergreens.\u00a0 Some members are already cutting grapevines and making the grapevine bases.\u00a0 If there are yew, juniper, cedar, spruce, or white pine prunings available, call Don Brodie 519-263-2404 to see if they could be used for the wreath making.\u00a0 The sale of wreaths helps to cover some of the costs of the fair and volunteers are always welcome.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A glance back at the 2014 fair generated some interesting facts: 1.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Over 100 different volunteers worked at the fair. 2.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There were 160 more entries in the indoor exhibits this year compared to last year. 3.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Exhibitors from Calgary were from the farthest distance 4.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A pipe band marched [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=541"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":543,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/541\/revisions\/543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}