810-LelnoaitariPalTning; Saturday, l October 4i-2003
This was the scene on opening day of Ephrata Fair. Fortunately, the water receded
within hours, and activities progressed as planned.
Photo by Preston Whitcraft, Ephrata Review photographer
Flooding Doesn’t Stop Fairs
At Ephrata , West Lampeter
Korner
LOU ANN GOOD
Food And Family
Features Editor
EPHRATA (Lancaster Co.)
Torrential downpours on the
opening day of Ephrata and the
West Lampeter Fairs last week
created mud and some conster
nation for the organizers, espe
cially at Ephrata Fair. There
Tent City, which houses the agri
cultural aspect of the fair had
water that rose halfway up the
tractor tires. But within hours,
the water receded, and things
progressed as planned.
The weather turned out to be
quite sunny and pleasant for
most of fair week. From the looks
of the kids who attended the two
different fairs, the events were a
great success.
At left, Katie, 5, and
Rein, 3, explore the West
Lampeter Fair with their
grandparents, Mel and Jan
ette Wenger, East Lampet
er.
Bottom left, grade school
students take a class trip
to the Ephrata Fair.
Photos by
Lou Ann Good,
food and family
features editor
FFA students explained
the care of pigs to kids who
visited the Ephrata Fair on
Wednesday afternoon.
Seeing double? Two-year-old twins Hannah, left, and
Lena, children of Ed and Jen Graybill, Lancaster, climbed
on tractors at the West Lampeter Fair.
Pygmy goats are the right size for petting at Ephrata
Fair.
Sometimes the most fun can be found in . unexpected
places. Here an FFA’er leads children in a game of “Tex,
Says,” a version of Simon Says, during a waiting period at
Ephrata Fair’s Tent City.