{"id":875,"date":"2016-02-29T20:17:51","date_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:17:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bayfieldfallfair.ca\/?p=875"},"modified":"2016-02-29T20:17:51","modified_gmt":"2016-03-01T01:17:51","slug":"bayfield-agricultural-society-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/?p=875","title":{"rendered":"Bayfield Agricultural Society Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

The convention and annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies<\/a> (OAAS) was held on February 18-20 in Toronto at the Royal York.\u00a0 The winning poster that Cate Thompson prepared for the Bayfield Fair, which won at the District level, competed at the provincial level.\u00a0 This is the third year that Cate has had an entry compete at this level.\u00a0 She didn\u2019t place this year but the Bayfield Ag Society is so proud of her efforts and entering against excellent posters from other districts.<\/p>\n

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Posters that competed at the Intermediate Level<\/p>\n

The convention had a unique situation occur this year.\u00a0 One person who had quilts entered in three districts, won at the district level, and then won first, second, and crowd\u2019s favourite in the quilt competition in Toronto.\u00a0 No one has ever achieved that feat!<\/p>\n

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First Prize Quilt<\/p>\n

The Bayfield Ag Society<\/strong> will be holding its first meeting for 2016 on March 14 at 7 pm<\/strong>.\u00a0 One item that likely will be discussed is alternatives for a midway.\u00a0 It became clear at the convention that midways tend now to only go to summer events that have about 10 000 people attending.\u00a0 There are fewer midways in operation and they need more money to generate a profit.<\/p>\n

Anyone interested in helping with ideas for the fair or assisting on committees is welcome to attend the meeting.\u00a0 The fair is a community event that provides information about modern agriculture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The convention and annual meeting of the Ontario Association of Agricultural Societies (OAAS) was held on February 18-20 in Toronto at the Royal York.\u00a0 The winning poster that Cate Thompson prepared for the Bayfield Fair, which won at the District level, competed at the provincial level.\u00a0 This is the third […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":878,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions\/878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bayfieldfair.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}