Lancaster County
Fair Schedules
Denver
Fun competitions for all ages
dominate the festivities at the
Denver Community Fair. There
will be Jell-O eating and smelly
sneaker contests, outhouse races
and super peanut scrambles.
A baked goods auction and the
crowning of the fair queen will
open the week’s festivities in the
Denver Memorial Park on Main
Street in the borough.
Bingo games will be held each
evening from 6 to 10 p.m. and sen
ior citizen bingo will be held from
2 to 4 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday
and Friday afemoons.
Specials for the amusement
rides will be held on Thursday’s
“Family Night” from 6 to 10 p.m.
and during a Saturday matinee
from 1 to 5 p.m.
Access to off-street parking, for
$l, is available at the park’s Pine
Street entrance and the Denver
Borough lot on Main Street.
Handicapped parking is available
upon request Exhibits for the fair
will be registered Monday from 6
to 9 p.m.
Tuesday, Sept. 15: 6:30 p.m..
Baked goods auction; 7 p.m., fair
queen coronation; 8 p.m., Jell-0
eating contest.
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Wednesday, Sept. 16: 7 p.m.,
parade (rain date Thursday).
Thursday, Sept. 17: 4 p.m.,
sheep show; 7 p.m., look-alike lip
sync contest followed by perfor
mance by Hungry Jack.
Friday, Sept 18: 6 p.m., beef
show followed by auction; 7 p.m.,
talent show.
Saturday, Sept. 19: 11 a.m.,
cow chip poker and pet show; 1:30
p.m., outhouse race; 2:30 p.m., ba
by parade; 3:30 p.m., super peanut
scramble; 4:30 p.m., smelly
sneaker conest; 7:30 p.m., enter
tainment by Big Whceley and the
Whitewalls.
Ephrata
The granddaddy of county fairs,
the Ephrata Fair will celebrate 74
years of food, fun and games of
chance along its midway on Mam
and State streets.
Although the midway covers
several blocks, exhibits for the fair
spread out further, requiring a free
shuttle service for fairgoers to lake
in all the events.
The free shuttle bus running
from 4 to 10 p.m. on Tuesday,
Thursday and Friday will pick up
visitors at the comer of South
State and West Franklin streets to
the livestock exhibits located in
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Other exhibits will be located in
the Pioneer Fire Hall, and art ex
hibits will be shown at the Art
works at Doneckers. A roving
band will provide musical enter
tainment.
The fair’s first contest begins
Monday at 4 p .m. with the second
annual scarecrow contest.
The fair will end Saturday night
with the crowning of Miss Lan
caster County.
Tuesday, Sept. 22: 10 a.m.,
bake sale; 5 p.m., adult tractor
driving contest and junior market
swine show; 8 p.m., pig chase.
Wednesday, Sept. 23: 10 a.m.,
dairy cattle show; 1 p.m. Cloister
FFA tractor driving contest; 3:30
p.m., judging lamb on foot, fol
lowed by junior market lamb
judging; 7 p.m., street fair parade,
(ram date is Thursday).
Thursday, Sept. 24: 1 to 6
p.m., kiddies day; 5 p.m., baby
beef show; 6:30 p.m., carcass
lamb, baby beef and hog sale (if it
rams Wednesday, the sale will be
moved to friday); 6:30 p.m. com
munity tug of war contest; 7 p.m.,
garden tractor pulling contest.
Friday, Sept. 25 : 6:30 p.m.,
cow milking contest followed by
family fun contests.
Saturday, Sept. 26: 2 p.m., b
aby parade; 8 p.m., Miss Lancas
ter County Scholarship Pageant.
West Lampeter
The West Lampeter Communi
ty Fair will show off children’s
gardening skills with a sunflower
growing contest Thursday at 4:30
p.m. Also, a petting zoo will be
open from 6 to 8:30 p.m. each eve
ning of the fair.
Calf roping contests and an all
western horse show give the fair a
western flavor and the farming
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skills of FFA students will be evi
dent in the log sawing and bale
throwing contests.
Opening each day at 9 a.m., the
fair will serve lunch from 11 a.m.
to 1 p.m. and dinner from 5 to 7
p.m. at the Community Fair Res
taurant in the fire hall building.
Fairgoers not ready for the fes
tivities to end can stop by Satur
day night at 7 p.m. to bid on prize
winning vegetables and fruits at
an auction.
Wednesday, Sept. 23: 10 a.m.,
sheep show; 1 p.m., swine show;
5:30 p.m., pet show; 6 p.m. sheep
blocking and fitting contest; 6:30
p.m., beef show; L-S Elementary
School band concert; 7 p.m., pa
rade; 7:30 p.m., fair queen contest;
9 p.m., tug of war.
Thursday, Sept. 24: 9:30 a.m.,
FFA judging contest; noon, dairy
cattle judging; 1:30 p.m., FFA log
sawing and bale throwing contest;
4:30 p.m., baby parade; 6 p.m.,
draft horse exhibit and demonstra
tion; 7 p.m., youlh dairy show
manship and fitting contest; L-S
High School Band Concert; 7:30
p.m., greased pig catching contest;
9 p.m. Tractor square dance.
Friday, Sept. 25: 1 p.m., all
western horse show; 6:30 p.m.,
calf roping contest; 4-H and FFA
hog, beef and lamb consignment
sale; 10 p.m., youth encourage
ment award presentation.
The highlight of the New Hol
land Farmers Fair is the annual
spectacle of bands parade, featur
ing more than a dozen county
bands.
The fair also features a midway
that stretches along Main Street,
Route 23. The livestock events
will be held on the grounds of the
New Holland sale bams.
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Registration of exhibits will be
on Tuesday.
As a new feature of the fair, Fri
day afternoon will be designated
as kids day with a clown and ma
gic show by the Amazing Earl at 4
p.m. on Franklin Street and a pet
ting zoO on Fulton Street.
Tuesday, Sept. 29: 5:30 p.m.,
swine show.
Wednesday, Sept. 30: Noon,
bake sale at ABC Groff’s; 3 p.m.,
sheep show; 7 p.m., opening pa
rade.
Thursday, Oct. 1: 8 p.m., lug
of war.
Friday, Oct. 2: 3 p.m., kid’s
day events; 6:30 p.m., swine and
sheep sale; 8 p.m., lug of war.
Saturday, Oct. 3: 7 a.m.,
horseshoe pitching contest; 2
p.m., pet parade; 4 p.m., baby pa
rade: 8 p.m., 27th annual fire
men’s finals m the lug of war.
Manheim
The fair season ends with the
Manhcim Community Farm
Show, and its biggest attraction is
the children’s barnyard, a com
bination petting zoo and educa
tional tour.
Manheim also has the county’s
only shepherds lead line contest,
where sheep owners show off
their animals and themselves as
they model tailored wool outfits in
the show ring.
The Baron Sliegel one-mile
foot race and the annual parade are
also unique attractions in Man
heim.
The farm show will be held on
the grounds and fields next to
Manheim Central High School on
Adcle Avenue. The deadline for
entries is 10 a.m. Monday.
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