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THE NEW TANNE DAIRY DARLINGS: With their final preparations for the dairy show finished, Stephanie, 19, Curtis and Paige Gregson, 14, of Erin, pose with Garden Child (left) and Sadie on Sunday at the fair. - Frances Niblock photo. iad e JUST A LITTLE OFF THE TOP: Houston the Galloway bull from the McIlwraith wes AREA FARMERS show Farm was primped for showing on Saturday. -- Angela Tyler photo 5 g : ' HORSIN' AROUND: Desta Frey, a Grade 5 student at Robert Little school, prepares Tigger, a Thorough- bred - Shetland cross, for the Beginner's class at the Hunter show on Sunday. -Frances Niblock photo pms WAITING FOR THE JUDGE: Gregory Aitken placed third showing in his class on Saturday. -- Angela Tyler Fe WHICH CAME FIRST, the chicken or the child? Katelyn Donaldson, 7, earned first prize honours for Junior Overall Best Chicken. Joining her was her sis- ter Kailey, 4, who won for her best White Wyanndotte Rose Cone chicken. -- Ted Tyler photo THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1998 | PONY PALS: Acton's Dylan McPhail, 10, and Bullet (left) won three firsts in the Beginner's class during the Hunter show on Sunday while friend Peter Szjotnicki, 10, Brookville and Rosie won three thirds. -- Frances Niblock photo cy THEREBY HANGS A TAIL: With assistance from his mother, Jean Somerville, and former Acton Fair president Brian Evans, Clark Somerville measures the appropriate appendage on one of the contestants in the Acton Fair contest for the dog with the longest tail. - Maggie Petrushevsky photo