10-Lancaster Farming, Saturday, September 27, 2003
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Kids
Too busy to talk.
Jessica Brown, 10,
comes for fun, to look
around, and get fries and a
milkshake. Her sister Sa
mantha, 7, prefers to get a
snowcone and cotton
candy.
Donna Rakem, Quarry
ville, is delighted with her
21 -month-old granddaugh
ter Ivana Wilson’s fascina
tion in watching the sheep
show.
Luke Puckett, 3, son of
Sharon and Joe Puckett,
Annville, sits on a pumpkin
during his first visit to the
fair.
In between showing cows for Wentworth Farm, Quarryville, these kids hang out in the
barn. Included are two sets of twins Hannah and Ethan Wentworth, 13, and Oliver and
Noah Wentworth, 6, with friends Chelsey Eager, 13, and Kyle Miller, 12.
What’s A Kid Do At Solanco Fair?
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
QUARRYVILLE (Lancaster
Co.) Fair time at Southern
Lancaster County Community
Fair (Solanco) is family fun for
many attendees.
Brooke and Jason Mazepink climb on a fence to watch
their cousins Katrina and Freddy Frey show sheep.
Oopps Looks like someone got crushed by this cow.
Actually, it’s fake a joke by 4-H’ers who spend days
and nights in the barn during the fair.
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Solanco is a fair without a
midway and other glitzy enter
tainment. Instead, Solanco shows
what real fairs are meant to be
a time to sjiow off the fruits of
their labors m animal production,
gardening, baking, canning, sew
ing, quilting, and other skills.
Some participants come to
show cows or sheep or pigs. Some
enter pumpkins or other garden
grown specimans. Some set up
booths promoting local business-
But most people come to have
old-fashioned fun.
Many children delight in
spending time in the livestock
barns up close and personal
with four-legged animals.
These photos capture kids en
joying Solanco Community Fair
last week.
Photos by Lou Ann Good,
food and family features editor
While Herb Weaver of Weaver’s Feed and Supply, Quar
ryville, operates a booth. The Weaver children Kirby, 7;
Abby, 11; Hannah, 5, and Patrick, 10, find balloons and
other exciting things to do while hanging out with their
dad at the fair.
Kelsey, 6, and Carrie, 3,
are the children of James
and Lisa Knight and spend
fair days in be barn with
their grandparents who
own Kildary Acres. The
girls report that they never
get bored. They play games
with other kids in the barn,
and answer questions that
preschoolers ask about the
cows.
Claire Pyle, 3, and her
brother Sam, 2, came all
the way from North Caroli
na to visit their grandmoth
er, Cathy Pyle, who brought
them to the fair.