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Orono Weekly Times, 11 Sep 2002, p. 9

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one in local heritage Young Ganaraska Clogger Cassandra Dolly looks on as her mother, Mandy Dolly (R) performs on the Arena Stage Saturday morning. Capacity Crowds (continued from front) Patricia bought the watercolour depicting the race track and a variety of vendors in a circa 1950s Orono Fair set ting for her father, Bill Hoo< up next to the Fairgrounds. There were cows, sheep, horses, chickens and rabbits of every shape, size and colour represented at this year's fair. The anniversary display in the Agricultural Building was extensive and very informative as was the Junior Farmer's exhibits in the same building. The quality of locally grown fruits and vegetables were superb even though their numbers were down this year. Congratulations to Keith Henderson for his first place giant pumpkin. A capacity crowd was on hand again to witness the truck and tractor pull on Saturday night which took place in front of the grandstand. Sunday afternoon's demolition derby packed the grandstands again, which when emptied out, signalled the end of the Fair. . Fair organizers were very pleased with the effort of the many volunteers again, without whom the Fair could never happen for a single year, let alone 150. Attendance for this year's fair totalled 15,095, up one thousand from the previous year. "To have a great fair takes people," says Fair president Charles Harris. "Without the volunteers that put things up and took them down, this Fair wouldn't have happened," said Harris following the Fair, and went on to thank everyone who helped and attended, "Making our Fair a big success." Bri-anne Boyd feeding the animals in the Petting Zoo. Fair's Heritage Committee, Rebecca Boyd (C) 2002 Fair i Patricia Boyd (R) who purchased the commemorative 150th v,*,$v;'s ;Ùv. ■V. /. (\tVfiW. 1 . xv. ; ;Y * i;V. v. *•» » John DeVries' (L) entry was declared the Grand Champion Jersey at Friday night's Jersey show. i ■4-V

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