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Fair Magazine Grandstand Features:

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39. Winning the state superintendent’s “Black and White” ribbon

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44. Predators of the Heart brings wild animals close to fairgoers

8. Monday — Demolition Derby

46. The fair’s popular Small Animal Experience expands upward

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48. Learn about the fair’s roughstock

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50. Square dancing exhibition is in 30th year at fair

16. Thursday — Gary Allan 20. Friday — Huey Lewis and

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24. Saturday — Collective Soul

52. The Weidkamp family is part of the fair’s draft horse tradition 58. Meet Nate and Melissa Kleindel, who are deeply involved with the fair 60. Take a look at the preparations that go into making the fair ready 62. A list of the contestants participating in the Lynden PRCA Rodeo

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Monday

August 11

Demolition Derby

Big changes for demo derby Jumbotron big screen and purse for the afternoon competition new in 2014

Demolition Derby Monday, Aug. 11 12:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m.

Tickets: $22, $27 and $32 (both shows); VIP $125

At this year’s demolition derby, the afternoon show will be a pre-qualifier with about $3,000 up for grabs. (File photo/Lynden Tribune)

When Mike Scholten, president of the Whatcom County Derby Club, and his crew finish up one year’s demo derby at the Northwest Washington Fair in Lynden, they don’t wait too long before assessing what went right and what went wrong.

So following the 2013 show, Scholten and company asked themselves what they could do to make things bigger and better in 2014. What could improve the afternoon (12:30 p.m.) and evening (7:30 p.m.) shows that happen on the opening Monday of the fair?

For starters, one big change is coming to the afternoon show, and Scholten expects it will make the drivers quite happy.

“The afternoon show is going to be a pre-qualifier, but a good amount of money is going into that show,” Scholten said.

“We have put aside right around $3,000

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This year’s demolition derby prize purse totals out to $19,500. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) for the afternoon alone. In previous years, there was nothing for that and the entire purse was handed out for the night show.

This is a big change for us.”

Last year’s purse was $15,500, but in 2014 a total of $19,500 will be given out.

“It’s exciting for us because each year we seem to get bigger,” Scholten said.

“This is a very large purse, which we think will make the day that much more exciting.”

Another big change, which will be a plus for the typical packed-out house for the show, involves some added technology for fans to enjoy.

“This year, we’re going to have a jumbotron big screen,” Scholten said. “The fair is providing that. We’re going to have two cameras going and recording all the action. Some historical stats will be displayed, too. We think it will make for better quality of the show.

“We’re also going to have a VIP expe-

rience for those who want to pay a little bit extra. That’s also put on by the fair.

With the VIP experience, it’s catered, with an open bar, and you have a seat very close to the action. It’s a higher-priced ticket, but it’s going to be cool.”

As for the crashin’-bashin’ action, a new twist is coming this year. The “Jump Your Junk” event event has gained popularity recently among demo derbys around the region.

“We’re accepting 10 entries for that and right now we’ve got five people signed up,” Scholten said. “Basically, you can bring in whatever you want to jump, as long as you have a seatbelt and a helmet. You get to go off a jump in front of the crowd and fire them up.

“It’s a lot of fun to watch and we’re looking forward to it. We have a semitruck that will be doing a jump this year.”

One thing Scholten wanted to emphasize is that this year, two of the cars

for the demo derby are benefit cars, purchased for $6,000 apiece at an auction earlier this year. The cars were purchased to honor Matt Martin, a demo derby rider in previous years, who passed away from cancer on June 6 at age 30.

“We raised $12,000 in an auction for the cars, which was used to help his family with medical bills and for cancer research,” Scholten said. “He ran some cars in the derby for us, so it’s a nice way to honor him. We’re doing a memorial truck for his brother to drive as well.”

For the 2014 show, Scholten expects between 50 and 60 participants.

“I get pumped up to see people buy tickets for this,” Scholten said. “It means we’re doing something exciting that people in the community enjoy. When you see the stands full, that’s a great feeling. As a derby club, we come together as a family.

To see everything get done is cool.”

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Popular clown J.J. Harrison coming back to Lynden Like the cowboys, he tries to squeeze in as many rodeos as possible

J.J. Harrison will bring his wacky rodeo antics back to Lynden for this year’s fair. (Courtesy photo/J.J. Harrison)

J.J. Harrison took a rather unlikely route to his job as a barrelman and clown in the rodeo arena.

True, he was familiar with a PRCA Rodeo, the Omak Stampede, as a kid growing up in nearby Okanogan in north-central Washington.

But Harrison then became a teacher and taught for eight years in the Walla Walla public schools — he even got a master’s degree along the way — before he got really smart and realized his true calling was more simple.

“I have always loved to perform and make people laugh,” he says on his website.

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Rodeo: Harrison has been to Lynden PRCA Rodeo twice Continued from page 10

Bareback riding will once again return to this year’s rodeo event lineup.

(Randy Fleming/For the Lynden Tribune)

classroom, where he proved himself to be a kid-magnet, but it can also happen in the rodeo arena.

“I believe a rodeo clown has the power to create a bridge from fans to contestants and rodeo in general,” he said.

Harrison has been at the Lynden PRCA Rodeo twice before. In fact, he came in 2008 just as he was giving up teaching and getting into his rodeo gig full-time. He credits Chris Paul, the rodeo manager then, with taking a chance on him when he was still an unknown quantity.

He has also shared his skills with kids at the Whatcom County Youth Fair, which Paul heads up.

“She’s a huge part of why I go (to Lynden),” he acknowledged.

People love Harrison’s entertaining style, said Northwest Washington Fair manager Jim Baron, so it made sense to try to bring him back here, and the midweek slot definitely helped to accomplish that.

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Tuesday and Wednesday should only bring more high-caliber cowboys up to the Lynden show, as they fit it in with their weekend chase to other rodeos in the region.

“Lynden will be the only show those two days,” he said. “In my opinion, it’s a smart move.”

All that travel is his routine as well, Harrison said as he talked from Steamboat Springs, Colorado, in mid-July. He had just come from Wolf Point, Montana, and planned next to drive the 18 hours to Longview, Washington, for its rodeo.

From there, he will be at the Abbotsford, B.C., Agrifair & Rodeo before squeezing in the Omak Stampede Aug. 7-10. From Lynden he will go directly to Moses Lake.

He still lives in Walla Walla.

“It’s pretty intense,” he agreed. But with his truck, a motor home and sometimes flying to a destination, he pulls it off.

He’s been in Hawaii and Florida and at the National Finals Rodeo in Las Vegas.

“It’s safe to say I cover the whole U.S.” As for success in his trade, Harrison sees it as literally putting his entertainment powers on the spot. He wants to be both fresh and funny.

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Tickets: Adults $27, preteens $22; VIP $95

In saddle bronc riding, one of the cowboy’s hands must remain free. (Randy Fleming/For the Lynden Tribune) Continued from page 13 “My strategy is to do stuff that is off the cuff. You just don’t know what’s going to happen — you need to make it real for the crowd,” he said.

Harrison will be wearing a big goofy airsuit. He works a bit in advance with announcer Matt West, but they don’t overscript it with a lot of canned jokes or anything.

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“We just wing it when we show up,” he said. “We just go to work. I base my comedy on where I’m at.”

So in Lynden that could mean some digs at Dutchness or Canadians or that this is not really cowboy country.

Although his hideaway from a charging horse or bull in the arena is his barrel, sometimes Harrison will get up in the saddle on a horse for some of his acts too.

Back to those Okanogan roots, the folks back home are proud of what J.J. Harrison has made of himself in 20 years since high school — enough to tailor their upcoming reunion to suit his schedule. The date will coincide with J.J.’s visit back home working the 2014 Omak Stampede.

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August 14

Life is a song for Gary Allan Country singer brings gritty vocals and sincere music to Northwest Washington Fair

Gary Allan had his first number-one country hit with “Man to Man,” from his 2003 album “Alright Guy.” (Courtesy photo/Gary Allan)

Country music of every era always has a stack of conformers who sing to the prevailing trends. Turn your radio on and you might assume you are only hearing three artists in all.

And then there is Gary Allan, whose gritty vocals add depth and texture to his already power-packed music and lyrics. Allan will bring those qualities to his Thursday, Aug. 14, show at the Northwest Washington Fair.

Though Allan has been a recognized force in country music since the mid-1990s, he didn’t break through with his first Billboard number 1 hit, “Man to Man,” until he produced his fourth album, “Alright Guy,” in 2001. He quickly followed that up, though, with two more number 1s from his appropriately-named 2003 album, “See If I Care.”

Songs “Tough Little Boys” and “Nothing On but the Radio” became mainstream radio staples.

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en to newcomers in the country music business.

But Allan had already demonstrated that he wasn’t in it for the accolades.

It has always been more important to him that he remain true to his own original style and musical roots. This is especially true with his latest release, “Set You Free,” in 2013.

Allan considers Set You Free to be the embodiment of his own evolution toward personal and creative freedom.

“It’s all about healing,” Allan says.

“It’s all about the evolution of getting better.”

In fact, the album is sequenced with a storyline in which a man breaks the restraints of a failed relationship and conquers the loneliness of its aftermath. It flows directly from Allan’s own journey as a man and as an artist.

That Allan considers “Set You Free” his most optimistic yet means a lot to

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Gary Allan famously played through a recent concert in the pouring rain.

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his fans since there is no denying the veins of dark subject matter running through the previous eight studio albums.

Who can forget numbers from “Tough All Over” (2005) like “Best I Ever Had” and “Just Got Back From Hell.”

That album was Allan’s first record after the suicide of his wife, Angela.

And while the darkness isn’t ignored with songs such as “Bones,” “It Ain’t The Whiskey,” and “Sand In My Soul,” fans have responded well to his latest number 1 single, “Every Storm (Runs Out of Rain).”

As the album’s narrative plays out, it opens into a refreshing glimpse of self-acceptance with the other upbeat songs, “No Worries,” “Pieces” and “Good As New.” Allan mixed a lot up in his recording process this time around. His production team is different; he plays lead See Gary Allan on page 18

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Gary Allan: Writing, performing have made singer ‘good as new’ Continued from page 17

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Gary Allan’s newest album, “Set You Free,” is about healing, the artist says. (Courtesy photo/Gary Allan)

guitar on a number of tracks, he wrote more of his own material and he used a few new co-writers.

Allan says writing and performing music is one of the things in his life that has helped him become “good as new.”

“There’s no better thing than to have all your best friends come over and to talk about the emotions that you’re having,” Allan says. “Songwriting is the best therapy in the world.”

Allan is also good as new in a literal, physical way. Set You Free is the first album he recorded since the removal of a polyp on his vocal cords that had severely restricted his endurance and singing abilities. Discovered almost by accident during a routine checkup with a Nashville voice doctor, the polyp made every concert a marathon.

“Every time I would go (on stage) before the surgery, I would only last full force for about three songs,” he says. “I could feel the fatigue, and I could feel my cords swell up, and I had other people hitting notes for me. They removed the polyp, and it was like I was 18 again.

It was amazing how well it worked.”

Gary Allan, a southern California native, has been playing his unique brand of music since he started playing in nightclubs during his high school years. After graduation, he developed a local following of regular fans that featured a mix of rednecks in western boots and neo-Goths with piercings and spiked hair. Allan claims he became particularly inspired during a concert by the Highwaymen — Waylon Jen-

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nings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson — to pursue music that mined the dangerous side of life.

“They were so powerful,” Allan says. “It was like punk rock to me. It was so hardcore. I really, really wanted to be a part of that lifestyle.”

Success in that effort has followed

Allan, who amassed seven gold albums, with three of them being certified platinum. He has consistently earned the admiration of critics for his unwavering uniqueness.

Allans fans have appreciated the sincerity of Allan’s music, which always gives them a sense for what is going on

in Allan’s life. Judging by his latest offering, that means fans can be sure that he feels pretty good about life right now.

“I seem to gravitate musically toward wherever I’m at in my life at that time,” Allan says. “And I’m in a real good place.”

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Huey Lewis and the News bring anniversary tour to Lynden Band’s hit songs include ‘The Power of Love,’ ‘I Want a New Drug’ and ‘Stuck With You’

Huey Lewis and the News extended their tour commemorating the 30th anniversary of their album “Sports” into 2014. (Courtesy photo/Huey Lewis and the News)

In the 1985 classic Robert Zemeckis film “Back to the Future,” the line “I’m afraid you’re just too darn loud” is spoken early on, after Marty McFly’s band The Pinheads plays a hard-rock cover of Huey Lewis’s “The Power of Love” in their Battle of the Bands audition.

Ironically enough, that line was spoken by Lewis himself, in a subtle cameo appearance as a school faculty member judging Battle of the Bands hopefuls.

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scene since the early 1980s.

Lewis began playing his signature harmonica at the young age of 13 when he attended boarding school in New Jersey. For about a year he hitchhiked around Europe, playing his harmonica.

He attended Cornell University, playing in bands during his time there.

Lewis truly kicked off his music career after dropping out of Cornell and moving to California, where he and keyboardist Sean Hopper joined Clover, a country-rock band in the Bay Area.

During his time with Clover, Lewis and his bandmates competed with another band called Soundhole. Clover would eventually move to England, without Lewis, to enter the pub rock scene, eventually becoming Elvis Costello’s backing band on his debut album “My Aim is True.” Lewis spent time contributing to Irish band Thin Lizzy.

Clover disbanded in 1978, and Lewis and Hopper came together with former Soundhole competitors Bill Gibson, Johnny Colla and Mario Cipollina to form Huey Lewis and the Express.

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Huey Lewis and the News had a breakout hit in their album, “Sports,” bolstered by tours and success on MTV. (Courtesy photo/Huey Lewis and the News)

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Continued from page 17 Hayes joined the band.

In early 1980, following a complaint by credit card company American Express, the band changed its name to Huey Lewis and the News, which it retains to this day.

The band’s self-titled first studio album also went unnoticed. A second studio album, “Picture This,” however, went gold, propelled by hit single “Do You Believe in Love.” The album remained on the Billboard 200 album chart for 35 weeks, peaking at number 13.

The band went on tour on what became known as the “Workin for a Livin” tour, named after a single from “Picture This,” to promote the delayed album “Sports.” The album hit number 6 before climbing to the top spot on the charts in 1984, going multi-platinum in 1985, bolstered by tours and music video success on MTV. Singles “Heart and Soul,” “I Want a New Drug,” “The Heart of Rock & Roll” and “If This Is It” all charted in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.

The band’s biggest success came in 1985 with the release of the megahit film “Back to the Future.” Huey Lewis and the News recorded two songs, “The Power of Love” and “Back in Time,” specifically to be featured in the film. “The Power of Love” figures prominently in the film, playing over the scene in which Marty McFly, played by Michael J. Fox, skateboards to school near the beginning, along with the aforementioned Battle of the Bands audition. “Back in Time” plays at the end of the movie, as Marty McFly wakes up after traveling back to 1985.

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Huey Lewis and the News still travel with a horn section. (Courtesy photo/Bill Gibson) and Johnny Colla, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1986 for “The Power of Love.”

Huey Lewis and the News released “Fore!” as the band’s fourth studio album, in 1986. That album topped the Billboard 200, featuring hit singles such as “Stuck With You” and “Jacob’s Ladder.” “Fore!” finished with five top-10 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 and went triple platinum as well.

“Small World” was released in 1988, peaking at number 11. The album didn’t perform as well as “Fore!” or “Sports,” but was still certified platinum.

Following the band’s tour supporting “Small World,” it went on hiatus for a time before releasing “Hard at Play” in 1991. Hit singles “Couple Days Off” and “It Hit Me Like a Hammer” were products of the album, which eventually went gold.

In 1994, Huey Lewis and the News released “Four Chords & Several Year Ago,” charting on the Billboard 200 and producing a couple of adult contemporary radio hits. In 1997, the band released its first greatest-hits album, “Time Flies,” with hits pulled mostly from “Picture This,” “Sports” and “Fore!”

The band’s current tour, including the Northwest Washington Fair, will bring members Lewis (lead vocals, harmonica), Colla (guitar, saxophone, vocals), Gibson (drums, percussion, vocals), Hopper (keys, vocals), John Pierce (bass), Stef Burns (guitar, vocals), Johnnie Bamont (baritone, tenor saxophone), Marvin McFadden (trumpet) and Rob Sudduth (tenor sax) to Lynden.

The extended “Sports” tour promotes the album’s 30th anniversary. The tour was so popular in 2013 that the band extended it well into 2014.

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Collective Soul

Rocking and shining for over two decades Collective Soul fills fans’ request for Saturday grandstand slot Collective Soul’s first album was the double-platinum “Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid,” pictured on the facing page. (Courtesy photo/Collective Soul)

From “Shine” to “Twilight” the career of alternative rock group Collective Soul has spanned two decades and nu-

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And now the group adds one more first to its list: playing the Northwest Washington Fair. Following a fair Facebook fan poll that selected Collective Soul to round out the grandstand musical acts — actually, the first choice couldn’t be booked — the group was signed to play in the waning hours of the six-day fair. The stage show kicks off at 7 p.m. on Saturday, Aug. 16, the final night of the Lynden event.

For Collective Soul, 2014 is a long way from 1993. But the journey has remained a familiar one with three of the early members still involved in the band’s ninth studio album, this summer’s expected release of “See What You Started By Continuing.”

The band started big with its first publicly released song, “Shine,” triggering a record deal and long string of success for the band. Collective Soul continued making albums, with four in the 1990s and four more in the 2000s. In 2008 the band welcomed a new group of fans by performing on the teen-focused soundtrack of “Twilight.”

Ed Roland, though, gets the credit for kicking it all off. A Boston-educated musician, Roland moved to Atlanta and worked producing and engineer-

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Collective Soul Rock Saturday, Aug. 16, 7:30 p.m.

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Collective Soul first found success with the hit song “Shine.” (Courtesy photo/ Collective Soul)

ing music for independent artists. But he was one of those artists too. In the late 1980s and early 1990s Roland led various musical endeavors, but it wasn’t until a demo he made with the help of his brother and other musicians played on local radio that the idea of Collective Soul as a band started to take shape.

The song, “Shine,” continued to grow in popularity. Eventually, Atlantic Records signed the band and turned the 1993 Roland demo into a debut album dubbed “Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid.”

Collective Soul found success. The album went double-platinum, even though it was largely still a demo album. That allowed the group to focus on a second album, which would become their most popular, and also tour the world and perform at Woodstock in 1994.

In 1995 this second album, selftitled as “Collective Soul,” debuted and easily outpaced the success of their first effort. It went triple platinum and stayed 76 weeks on the Billboard 200.

Three of the album’s singles reached No.

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Collective Soul plays a 2012 show in Austin. (Courtesy photo/Louis Reed) 1, including “December,” “The World I Know” and “Where the River Flows.”

The song “Gel” made it to No. 2 on Billboard charts and “Smashing Young Man,” a fifth single on the album, was a top-10 favorite. “Collective Soul” still sits as the band’s highest-selling album to date.

The group’s third album, “Disciplined Breakdown,” was released in 1997 and featured two No. 1 singles, “Precious Declaration” and “Listen,” en

route to gaining platinum status. The 1999 release of “Dosage,” the group’s fourth studio album, reached platinum and the single “Heavy” also reached No. 1.

The band continued recording with success into the 2000s, although not to platinum or No. 1 status. It also branched into the movie world by rerecording music for the popular “Twilight” movie series.

The current makeup of the five-

member band still includes Ed Roland on lead vocals, rhythm guitar and keyboards; his brother, Dean Roland, on rhythm guitar; and Will Turpin on bass and backing vocals. Johnny Rabb has worked the drums since 2012 and Jesse Triplett took over lead guitar this year.

Expect something old and something new from Collective Soul in Lynden on Aug. 16, an example of the decades of culture the band spans.

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Pentatonix was a top choice when the fair chose to let the community help decide on the last grandstand act to come to the fair. (Courtesy photo/Pentatonix)

There’s never been a magic formula to figure out who will be the best fit on the grandstand stage at the Northwest Washington Fair. But the tools do get better.

This year, the fair experimented with a new tool: online polls.

“One of the things we are finding is that there are names of entertainers that are not generally well known, but you put the name out and there are a whole bunch of people who say they would come to see them,” said Northwest Washington Fair manager Jim Baron.

Baron has in place an ad hoc advisory committee to help make selections.

And before that even happens, the fair’s buyer agency hands over a pared-down list from all the acts that are available and working in the area.

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Stage: Collective Soul was final choice for open grandstand spot Continued from page 28 Still, Baron said, it’s a healthy list and additional input is always appreciated.

Between the annual demolition derby and the Lynden PRCA Rodeo being worked into the lineup for the first time in 2014, the fair only had three nights of evening grandstand entertainment to fill. Baron and his team first secured Gary Allan and Huey Lewis and the News to cover two nights. Instead of following up with a public announcement regarding the third slot, a poll appeared on the fair’s Facebook page to give local concert-goers a short list of options to vote on.

“The vote generated a lot of good feedback,” Baron said. “It was a great source of information — essentially a survey that delivered in a short period of time. Today’s audience — it’s so fragmented with so many places to get information. It can be challenging. So that’s why using Facebook was unique this year and certainly provided key insight.”

The vote went overwhelmingly to

acappella pop band Pentatonix, winners of season three of NBC’s “The SingOff.” Since that win, the group has shot to stardom, but not through traditional radio play and publicity campaigns. Instead, they became YouTube megastars, churning out cover versions of a wide spectrum of songs while peppering in a few originals as their first two studio albums were produced.

But while Pentatonix is only just now getting attention in the music and entertainment industry, signing with a label and making appearances in the upcoming “Pitch Perfect” movie sequel, they are still somewhat distant from mainstream public consciousness.

“On YouTube and Facebook, a group can get hot without being on the radio,” Baron said. “I asked my friends and they would say they never heard of (Pentatonix).”

But Baron’s awareness of possible blind spots was part of the reason for the poll in the first place. The fair immediately offered a contract to Pentatonix, but eventually discovered that the group’s tour had committed them else-

Pentatonix ended up having a prior commitment during fair week.

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where during Lynden’s fair week.

A second updated poll was quickly conducted and Collective Soul was finally introduced as the last act to fill out the fair’s lineup.

It turns out that getting the right act in the door doesn’t require reinventing the wheel. And you can’t always catch lightning in a bottle.

“You just remember that people communicate differently,” Baron said.

“It’s changing.”

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The power of pink Tough Enough to Wear Pink comes to the Lynden PRCA Rodeo on Tuesday

First you may spot the all-pink tractor. Then it’s the all-pink trailer, tricked out inside and turned into a mini retail shop. After that, well, that is when you see rodeo contestants, volunteers and fans donning pink. Consider it Tuesday, Aug. 12, at the Lynden PRCA Rodeo inside the Northwest Washington Fair.

The Tough Enough to Wear Pink effort started in 2004. Now 10 years later — and with a sponsorship from Wrangler — the program descends on rodeos across the country, spreading the message and raising funds for breast cancer research.

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Pink: July fundraiser pulled in $25,000 Continued from 31 Tough Enough committee, led this year

by Karen Timmer and Annette Hale, added extra prize money for any contestant who wins while wearing a pink shirt. For the fans, who are also encouraged to choose pink attire, a 50/50 raffle acts as a fundraiser for the group.

All money raised at Lynden remains in Whatcom County, Timmer said. Whether from the 50/50 raffle, donations or merchandise sales, the committee sends it all to the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Center in Bellingham to help support patients in need.

The money might pay for a new drug that could help a patient but isn’t approved yet by insurance or it could go toward any number of things that the center does to support local individuals.

“The really cool thing about it is that 100 percent of the money goes directly there,” Timmer said. “There is no overhead.”

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evening, Washington Tractor’s Jim Hale will have his pink tractor on the grounds. And Timmer has upped the pinkness factor with her addition of a pink trailer. She saw the horse trailer for sale online and went to Portland to check it out. She came home towing it.

“We chromed it out and put the logos on it,” Timmer said about sprucing it up. “We put carpet in it.”

Now the trailer will serve as a small retail outlet for Tough Enough to Wear Pink merchandise near the grandstand.

While the Tough Enough effort is focused on Tuesday, that won’t be the only day you can see pink take priority. On Monday, during the fair’s annual Demolition Derby, the committee plans another 50/50 fundraising raffle and incentives for cars and drivers embracing pink. And the pink trailer will remain close to the grandstand — you won’t need a ticket into the grandstand to access it — all week.

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In this 10th year of Tough Enough to Wear Pink in Lynden, Timmer, in her first year overseeing the program, praised the group ahead of her for the “great job” they did. This year, though, with the rodeo moved to mid-week and into the fair, Timmer and Hale were able to offer some new opportunities to interact with fairgoers.

The committee also created a pair of events outside the regular rodeo time. A fundraiser at the Samson Estate Winery in mid-July helped kick off the effort by raising $25,000 and the committee also plans a public event for Saturday, Aug. 23, the Saturday after the fair closes. Timmer said a battle of bands along with a barbecue and car show will raise funds for Tough Enough to Wear Pink.

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The rodeo events to be won

Bareback Riding — Ever ridden a jackhammer with one hand? That’s what this event has been compared to. Riders hold onto a leather rigging that’s secured with a cinch and aim for a wild, yet controlled ride with points earned by a back-andforth spurring motion as the horse bucks.

Golden Rule: Same as saddle-bronc riding.

Also, no touching with the cowboy’s free hand; any illegal contact results in no score.

Steer Wrestling — Ever had the wits to slide off a horse galloping at full speed and take down a 600-pound steer by the horns?

These guys do. Stop the clock in 4 seconds or less, and you’ll earn a nice check.

Golden Rule: As in all roping events, the animal gets a head start. Too much horsepower too soon will break the barrier and result in a 10-second penalty.

Tie-Down Roping — A cowboy throws his loop and catches a calf, then dismounts, sprints to the calf, and flanks it to the ground. As quickly as possible, he then ties any three legs together with a piggin’ string and throws his hands in the air to stop the

clock.

Golden Rule: Tie fast, and tie tightly. The calf has six seconds to stay put after the run. If it breaks free, then it’s no time (and no cash, either).

Saddle Bronc Riding — Derived from a cowboy’s task of breaking a wild horse, this is rodeo’s classic event — just look at the PRCA logo. Riders hold onto the rein, remain firmly seated and try to synchronize their spurs to the movements of the horse to achieve the highest score.

Golden Rule: Riders must mark out, or touch both heels above the horse’s shoulders.

Team Roping — Let’s play catch, partner.

Two ropers, a header and a heeler, take off after a steer. After the header lassoes around the horns, he turns the steer so the heeler can rope both hind legs and complete the run. The world record is 3.3 seconds or faster than it took to read this.

Golden Rule: This event depends on two solid catches — the first around the head or horns and the second around both hind legs. Anything else, and you pay a price.

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Black and White Kym VanMersbergen, winner of two state awards, brings some community outreach to the fair’s 4-H horse barn this year

Kym VanMersbergen is in her 10th year as the 4-H horse barn superintendent at the Northwest Washington Fair, and she certainly has her hands full in more ways than one.

“This year’s going to be interesting because I’ll be having a baby the Wednesday after the fair,” she said.

Even with all the craziness of the fair and the hustle and bustle that’s sure to come after it, VanMersbergen is still hoping to take home another state superintendent’s award.

“We call it the Black and White,” VanMersbergen said. “Every year, the state superintendent, which is kind of the person who goes and oversees all the fairs in the entire state, visits every single fair that happens in the state.”

The state superintendent tours the grounds and looks through every barn and display.

“He or she looks through the entire fair,” VanMersbergen said. “Then all of the superintendents in each department, we sit down and have a luncheon.

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Blazing Saddles is one of the 4-H clubs that will be in fair’s horse barn again this year. (Courtesy photo/Kym VanMersbergen)

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The quality of the youngsters involved with horses keeps Kym VanMersbergen coming back as 4-H barn superintendent. (Courtesy photo/Kym VanMersbergen) Continued from page 40 department or display that he or she feels is the best representation of the fair.”

The first year she served as the 4-H barn superintendent, VanMersbergen took home the Black and White, nicknamed for the color of the ribbon itself.

She won it again in 2013, and shared the award with fellow horse barn superintendents Lynda Revak, who oversees the light horse barn, and Dennis Yabsley, who heads up the draft horse barn.

“Last year, the superintendent was just really impressed with the horse barn as a whole, as well as the draft horse barn,” VanMersbergen said. “They only bring one ribbon, but Dennis had it in his barn for a couple days, I had it in my barn for a couple days, and Lynda had it in her office for a couple days, and then we drew straws.”

VanMersbergen drew the short straw, and she got to keep last year’s Black and White ribbon.

The state superintendent pays spe-

cial attention to public interaction when considering the recipient of the Black and White each year.

“In our barn, with the 4-H kids, we really push them to interact with the public,” VanMersbergen said. “Like, ‘Hey, my name is so-and-so, and welcome to the horse barn, do you have any questions?’”

VanMersbergen said she owes her first Black and White award to Sydney Gray, who was 9 years old at the time.

Gray walked right up to the state superintendent, VanMersbergen said, and asked if she had any questions.

“She was so taken with Sydney that she just absolutely loved the whole experience in the barn,” VanMersbergen said.

VanMersbergen gave her first Black and White ribbon to Gray, who graduated last year from Meridian High School and now attends Pepperdine University.

VanMersbergen took over as the 4-H barn superintendent 10 years ago, taking the reins from then-superintendent Harry Bowen. His first year as a superinten-

dent was her first year as a 4-H kid. She appreciates seeing kids who begin at age 8 and continue all the way through until they are 18, just as she did.

VanMersbergen has a few years before her son can enter 4-H, but she doesn’t plan to be done anytime soon.

“My son is 4, and like I said, I am pregnant right now and I’m going to have a baby the week after the fair, so I’ve got a long time before I’m going to be done with 4-H,” she said.

A helpful theme Each year at the 4-H closing ceremony, the kids across the nine 4-H clubs in the fair’s 4-H barn get to choose a theme they like for next year’s barn.

“Some years, it’s cartoons,” VanMersbergen said. “Some years, it’s vacation spots. Some years, it’s countries, that kind of stuff. The year we did cartoons, somebody did Sesame Street and somebody did Scooby Doo. But I pulled rank last year.”

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Black and White: 4-H clubs are supporting organizations this year Continued from page 40 For her 10th year as superintendent, VanMersbergen wanted to do something extra special. Instead of issuing a voting ballot, she chose a theme supporting nonprofits and support organizations.

Each 4-H club picked an organization to help. The ones chosen include the Herman Miller 4-H Equestrian Park on Hemmi Road, Wounded Warrior, the Whatcom Center for Early Learning, Tough Enough to Wear Pink and the Whatcom Humane Society.

“It’s just been really cool,” VanMersbergen said.

“They’re in contact with those organizations. A lot of the

clubs have gone to do volunteer days. They’ve all kind of gotten a different perspective.

They’re not drawing cartoons or maps this year. I believe that at the fair, a lot of them are going to have reps from those organizations to just come and be there if people have questions.”

For VanMersbergen, exposing the kids to community service and involvement has been an important experience.

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Blue & Green Lunch for youth added on Saturday 4-H, FFA youth can enjoy free catered lunch Saturday A new addition to the Northwest Washington Fair this year will be the Blue & Green Lunch on Saturday.

For youth in 4-H and FFA, this will be a complement to the opening Blue & Green Parade at 10:30 a.m. on Monday.

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The idea is that this is a time when everyone’s money and energy are running low and they could all use a food boost for the final push to the end of the fair, VanderVeen said. It also functions as a “great big thank you” to the kids for their participation, she said.

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New entry puts audience close to nature’s predators Wolves, cougars, alligators and snakes to be featured at exhibit from Anacortes

Predators of the Heart puts participants very, very close to predators.

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Anyone who grew up hearing the stories of Little Red Riding Hood and the three little pigs or watching certain “Animal Planet” shows may not have a very positive opinion of nature’s predators.

Let’s try to correct that.

Dave Coleburn created Predators of the Heart hoping to dispel the myths and reveal some truths about predators from around the world.

He operates a wildlife sanctuary in Anacortes and takes his licensed wildlife education program to fairs, school assemblies and wherever people want to learn more about predator wildlife.

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The fast-moving Predators of the Heart show at this year’s Northwest Washington Fair will feature about 40 animals throughout a 50-minute show. The animals vary widely in size and species.

“We’ll bring a lot of different snakes from around the world, as well as alligators and cougars,” Coleburn said. “We’ll have opossums and skunks and wolves too. We’ll just bring a good group of animals. It’s a really fun family show.”

The cougars are a particular highlight of the show, Coleburn said, as they are North America’s native big cat species.

“The best way I’ve ever heard (a cougar) described is as a piece of steel wrapped in fur,” Coleburn said. “They’re 10 times stronger than a human. They’re stronger than a lion or a tiger, pound for pound.”

Predators of the Heart cares for six cougars.

Joining Coleburn on stage will be Ross Baker, Coleburn’s friend and go-to “reptile guy,” who performs a decidedly dangerous stunt during the show.

“He can identify over 4,000 different species of reptiles and amphibians. He can tell you their names in common and Latin and he can spell them all correctly,”

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Coleburn said. “Ross will be surrounded by venomous snakes, probably cobras and rattlesnakes and cottonmouths and copperheads at one point.”

This stunt is performed not for Baker to show off his bravery, Coleburn said, but rather to expose the reptiles and show how valuable they are to the world.

That exposure, to Coleburn, is the most important part of Predators of the Heart. He created the show in order to counter the widespread perception of predators as dangerous, he said.

“We just try to get kids to fall in love with nature knowing that they’re the ones in charge of all this soon,” Coleburn said.

Created in 1998 as a 501(c)3 nonprofit, Predators of the Heart is the largest traveling animal exhibition in the Pacific Northwest. Predators of the Heart is based outside of Anacortes on 10 acres of land.

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Small Animal Experience rising to a higher level Elevated platform will add more viewing, access

Barn Buddies 4-H club was building a raised platform in late July for the Small Animal Experience exhibit at the fair. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

The Small Animal Experience couldn’t expand out, so it is expanding up instead.

The extremely popular and diverse menagerie of little critters in one corner of the Henry Jansen Agricultural Center will have a second level this year.

The raised platform of about 10 by 30 feet in size was being eagerly built by young members of the Barn Buddies 4-H Club in late July, with construction guidance from club friend Jeff Peterson.

“We are so packed in with people, so this should help reduce some of the pressure off the aisles,” said club leader Debbie VanderVeen.

The solidly built deck, or bridge — which may be open to naming suggestions during the fair — will handle human traffic while ducks, geese and chickens can just be their cute selves down below.

Also, cages of rabbits and guinea pigs can be mounted on the platform, and there will certainly be appropriate pennants and flags as ad-

ditional decor, VanderVeen said.

The construction will involve removable bolts rather than nails. That’s for good reason.

“It will all be transportable. It can be put together like a puzzle,” VanderVeen said. “We will be adding new square footage by putting it all at a second level.”

Barn Buddies is about 30 members strong. Instead of exhibiting animals or doing projects for themselves, members focus mainly on the Small Animal Experience, which began in 2009, and making it better each year.

For instance, Samantha Douge, club vice-president, spoke to and raised donations from the Lynden Noon Kiwanis to help with the platform project and also for better signage within Small Animal Experience.

The variety of animals includes: rabbits, ducks, geese, chickens, pigs, guinea pigs, calves, kittens, calves and ponies. If an animal isn’t small to start with, expect a baby version.

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Pigs are among the small animals presented in the fair’s Small Animal Experience. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) The main sponsor is Cargill-Nutrena, with additional support coming from the Whatcom County Farm Bureau and Whatcom County Dairy Women.

Over 62,000 people passed through Small Animal Experience last year. It seems to be a definite destination for many fairgoers, who like

to be able to see so many different types of animals all at once, VanderVeen said.

The area includes an “Ask Our Expert” station. It has become famous for featuring at least one sow giving birth to piglets during the fair, and that is expected to happen again in 2014.

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Can’t buck the view First three days of fair offer a closer look at rodeo’s roughstock

Three feet.

That’s how close you will be able to get to the bulls and bucking horses used for this year’s Lynden PRCA Rodeo when you visit the Northwest Washington Fair one of the first three days. Don’t fret, though — that is about as close as you’ll likely want to get.

As part of the Northwest Washington Fair’s annual changes to its events layout, the inclusion of the Lynden PRCA Rodeo brings the biggest need for a tweak. The bulls and bucking horses used

for the Tuesday and Wednesday evening competition will arrive on site on Sunday.

The stock pens for the roughstock will take up the space directly west of the infield restroom building, where service vehicles have parked during past fairs. The location sits north of the grandstand arena and west of the main carnival area. This prominent location near the grandstand will provide an interesting look at the livestock for three days for those passing the pens on the west side.

The animals will be housed in a traditional fence that routinely keeps the bulls and bucking horses in, and the fair will add a second fence about three feet away to keep fair visitors from getting too close to the animals.

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The fair’s roughstock pens house everything from horses to bulls to camels. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) low a look at the rodeo roughstock.

“We have spent a little bit of time figuring how to best situate (the pen) so that we have a maximum area for people to stand and view the bulls,” said Jim Baron, fair manager. “The double fence

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The stock will be on site for three days, getting shipped out of Lynden immediately following the rodeo on Wednesday evening.

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Camel Safari is back this year, moved to a more high-traffic location in front of the Jansen barn. (Courtesy photo/Camel Safari) move directly south of the Henry Jansen Agricultural Center in a “largely unused” portion of the grounds. Those trucks store ice and food. The fair features two locations for service trucks supporting concessions, with the other group still located on the far east side of the fair near the shop to help service concessionaires located in the Expo Building.

• Camel Safari, which last year hosted camel rides — for a fee — near Gate 5 on the southwest corner of the grounds, will move to a more

high-traffic location in 2014.

The camels will this year strut in the open space in front of the large red Jansen barn.

“Where they were by Gate 5 there was a lot of visibility, but people are just coming into the gate and not stopping and focusing,” Baron said. “In front of the Henry Jansen is a more relaxed area with more traffic and visibility.”

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Square dancing marks 30th year at fair From Saturday exhibition, people can decide to take a fall class themselves

Saturday-night square dancing, involving about 50 dancers, is in its 30th year as a fair attraction. (Courtesy photo/Oren Gaskill)

This will be the 30th year of square dancing on Saturday night at the Northwest Washington Fair.

The exhibition, involving about 50 dancers, will start at 5 p.m. near the clock tower at the main crossroads of the fairgrounds, so it tends to draw attention.

Fair manager Jim Baron, taking note of the milestone, said he appreciates the longevity of this act for the fair.

But Oren Gaskill, a caller and teacher in the Rainbow Squares square-dance club, said he is approaching this year just like any other: “We’re there to entertain and not to celebrate.”

For the fair, the Whatcom County club is joined by other dancers from Skagit County and British Columbia.

They are all so attuned to what’s involved in the twirling and dosey-doeing of square dancing that they scarcely need to get together on anything before the

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Saturday show itself, just communicate well, Gaskill said.

The real point of participating in the Lynden fair is to give fairgoers a good picture of square dancing and entice them to try it out.

Each fall, Rainbow Squares starts a new round of instruction in square dance for those interested in learning it. The first class, offered for free, will be Tuesday, Sept. 23, in Ten Mile Grange, 6958 Hannegan Rd. south of Lynden.

Full-fledged members enjoy the fun of square dancing on the second and fourth Saturdays of each month at the same location.

Oren has a special reason to like square dancing. It was at a dance at Smokey Point that he and his wife, Lois (Lew”), met on Dec. 7, 1996. And they’ve been keeping up the toe-tapping ever since, she also assisting him in leadership duties.

The Mount Baker Square Dance Council includes groups from throughout northwest Washington.

At the fair, there will be three or four squares of four couples each, all going at the same time. With substitutions in and out, they will keep going for a few hours.

“We like people to enjoy watching us dance and, of course, we enjoy it,” he

Oren Gaskill serves as both a caller and a teacher in the Rainbow Squares. said. “And if there is someone interested in it, we give them a flyer,” he said.

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Weidkamps’ horses ready to show at fair Owners of Mt. View Belgians bought originally from Cornie Verduin

An LTI mechanic by day, Dan Weidkamp and his family have a passion for draft horses. (Lynden Tribune/Braulio Perez)

When it comes to draft horses and putting on shows for horse enthusiasts around the state, Dan Weidkamp and wife Heather have the passion to keep doing it every year. As a matter of fact, they’ve had their own full six-horse hitch for the last 25 years, and the Northwest Washington Fair is one place they love to show it off.

However, when you visit their home on Lunde Road between Everson and Lynden, you find out they’re not the only ones working with their 10 horses. No, daughter Katie and other relatives and friends make routine stops to help out as well.

“It’s not just my wife and I out here,” Dan said. “Without the help of friends and family, we wouldn’t be able to do it. We’ve got my daughter Katie, son Seth, nieces, nephews and friends who help put everything together.

“They make a huge difference for us and really help out. I can’t stress it enough.

Without them helping us out each day, we wouldn’t be able to handle it all.”

All that help allows Dan to continue with one of his biggest life passions.

Daytime, he has been a mechanic for LTI for 45 years and he is a part-time driver as well. But he was always around horses growing up. His father, Harold, and uncle had their own hitches, which Dan helped out with.

The Weidkamps got into it themselves when they received six Belgians from the aging dean of local draft horse showing, Cornie Verduin, before 1990. They had alSee Weidkamp on page 54

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Weidkamp: Recently bought two mares in Wisconsin

Dan Weidkamp has traveled to a variety of shows and parades around the state, with Milky Way as his proud sponsor. (Lynden Tribune/Braulio Perez) Continued from page 52 ready been given his 1904 original wood Studebaker horse-drawn wagon.

Since then, with his own Mt. View Belgians hitch, Dan has traveled to many shows and parades around the state. His wagon proudly proclaims Milky Way as his sponsor.

This year, the Weidkamps are headed to the hometown Northwest Washington Fair, of course, and then the Washington State Fair in Puyallup in September.

As for his horses, Dan, Heather and their assistance crew have been hard at work preparing for both shows. And count into that a visit to Madison, Wis., in late April to purchase two new mares. Although

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Weidkamp: Fairgoers have admired draft horses for decades

Weidkamp works with his horses to find out their strengths in a hitch. (Lynden Tribune/Braulio Perez) Continued from page 54 horsepower. The training to put together that team, Dan said, is simple.

“We just drive them around and see how they go,” Weidkamp said. “We’ll put the fastest ones in the lead and then, of course, the wheelers are the biggest one.

We have a wheeler across the road (Zach) and he’s the biggest horse we’ve ever had.

We have him, his father, sister and mother.”

“We only need six too and not all 10.

We just see who does the best and then go from there,” the owner said.

As for the upkeep, each of the 10 Mt. View Belgians requires a large amount

of food and water, to put it mildly. In the summer, each horse will drink between 10 and 15 gallons of water. The horses will eat hay, grain and grass. Just for grain, the total monthly cost is right around $100.

It’s all worth it, though, Dan said, and he added that there’s no question the Northwest Washington Fair is his favorite stop each summer.

“The fair here in Lynden would be my favorite because I was born and raised here,” Weidkamp said. “When you do the show here, you know a lot of people, and then when you get up and go to Puyallup, you hardly know anybody. We get a nice response from the community.”

People have been strolling through the fair’s draft horse barn each August for decades, admiring the local breeders’ specimens on display there.

At the 2014 Northwest Washington Fair, nine hitches are signed up. They will perform together either in the Washington Tractor Arena or at the grandstand.

“I think it’s the only place in the world where you can do a free ride like this,” Dan said. “With the nine hitches in there, that’s 54 horses all in one arena. We’re riding around and hope not to run into each other. It’s a lot of fun, though, and the people there seem to enjoy it.”

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Couple ‘gives back’ to fair, community Nate and Melissa Kleindel are deeply involved on the boards of the fair and its foundation Growing up as they did, it seems only right to Nate and Melissa Kleindel that they should give back to their community and especially to the Northwest Washington Fair.

They both went through 4-H and FFA as kids in Lynden. They participated in the fair and have good memories of it. Nate worked on dairy farms and Melissa was drawn into the potato growing operation of her father, Dick Bedlington.

She went to Central Washington University and considered going into teaching.

But the farming life of Whatcom County lured her back.

“Just growing up here, you can’t help but be involved,” she said.

Between the pair, the involvement is extensive. Last fall, Nate joined the Northwest Washington Fair board of directors, replacing 27-year member Robert Hoksbergen. He also just wrapped up his turns of leadership in the Mt. Baker Rotary Club, whose named building on the fairgrounds hosts plenty of agricultural and community events.

Melissa has been on the Northwest Washington Fair Foundation board from its start two years ago. Previously board president and now head of an auction effort, she is committed to the goals of financially supporting the fair.

Much of their outlook goes back to helping youth.

“We really believe in supporting the kids,” Melissa said. Her dad gave her an open door to learn agriculture and she would like to pass on similar opportunities to upcoming local teens.

Nate said the FFA and 4-H programs teach youth the value of hard work, dollars, responsibility and dealing with people, and the returns that can be earned on such investment.

Melissa and Nate Kleindel hold a strong belief in supporting kids at the Northwest Washington Fair. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune) Nate is now 16 years into working for Dick Bedlington Farms, Melissa 13. Along with her brother Scott, Melissa represents a third generation of Bedlington family ownership in certified seed potatoes, counting grandpa Gordon, who even at age 95 likes to know what’s going on with the farm. Although the main farm transitioned in 2012, Dick and Marlys Bedlington continue to own Pure Potato, producing original disease-free stock.

By its geographical isolation, Whatcom County is ideally suited to producing quality seed potatoes. On the other hand, extra land is needed for potatoes’ rotation with other crops, including silage corn and wheat.

The principals all have their different areas of responsibility within the 20-employee operation — up to 75 workers in harvest. Nate manages warehouses, storage, refrigeration and shipping. Melissa handles the financial side of things, human resources, and relationships with customers and government. Scott covers field operations on hundreds of acres, machinery and some sales.

The Bedlington seed could go almost anywhere in the world, from eastern Washington to Africa. “The exporting market has really opened up for us,” Melissa said.

But for this couple, it all returns to a sense of local community involvement in their enterprise requiring them to “give back” in appreciation for all they feel they have received. And the Northwest Washington Fair is their main avenue.

“We’re both products of this community, and we feel the fair touches a lot of this community, a lot of different cultures,” Nate said.

Melissa will gladly speak for three current goals of the foundation: to support annual local high school scholarships; to provide free gate admission to disadvantaged persons; and to try to provide a permanent home for the “Farming for Life!” exhibit that tells the story of agriculture in Whatcom County overall.

Robert Hoksbergen said he had a very good time on the fair board. “I appreciate all the other directors and fair managers over the years,” he said.

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From sprinklers greening grass to shavings being trucked in, a great deal of preparation goes into making the fairgrounds ready for the opening of the Northwest Washington Fair. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

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I-5 exit 270 in Birch Bay Square

Shop online at www.bowwowandwoofs.com

Cascade ambulance service 1482 Slater Rd Ste A • Ferndale, WA

360-312-0911

Sell Your Home in 90 Days SellersChallenge.com

ben kinney 360.389.2089 877.739.7070

Keller Williams Western Realty • 2211 Rimland Dr. Ste. 124, Bellingham WA 98226

MECHANICAL Serving Whatcom County for 23 Years

Air Conditioning | Furnaces | Heat Pumps Boiler Systems | Commercial Refrigeration

6146 Portal Way • Ferndale

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Advertising Index: 260 - Tobacco & Fine Spirits............................... 28

Little Caesars........................................................ 46

Allison Amy Jewelry............................................. 27

Local Business Sponsors..........................39, 63, 65

Alvord-Richardson Construction....................... 19

Louis Auto & Residential Glass........................... 51

Americold............................................................. 12

Lyndale Glass....................................................... 18

Bellingham Community Sponsors..................... 59

Lynden Community Sponsors........................... 53

Bellingham Denture Clinic................................. 32

Lynden Human Life............................................ 30

Blaine & Birch Bay Community Sponsors......... 61

Lynden Pioneer Museum (Lyndé 500)............... 31

Bode’s Precast Inc..........................................16, 20

Maple Leaf Auto Body......................................... 22

Browns Tractor & Turf........................................ 44

Milt’s Pizza........................................................... 54

Camel Safari......................................................... 47

Mt. Baker Roofing................................................ 26

Chad Chambers Auto Sales................................ 49

Mt. Baker Vision Clinic........................................ 48

Christian Hope Association................................ 50

New York Life Insurance Company..................... 8

Country Financial - Len Corneto....................... 34

Nooksack Valley Disposal & Recycling Inc........ 46

Cruisin Coffee...................................................... 32

North County Christ The King Church.............. 30

David G. Porter, Trial Attorney........................... 29

Northwest Farm Credit Services........................ 44

Diehl Ford............................................................ 13

Northwest Propane LLC...................................... 15

DK Diesel.............................................................. 50

Northwest Recycling........................................... 52

Elenbaas Company............................................. 21

Overhead Door Company of Bellingham Inc.... 54

EPL Feed LLC....................................................... 24

PeaceHealth......................................................... 45

Espresso Directory.............................................. 41

Ralph’s Floors...................................................... 10

Everson & Nooksack Community Sponsors...... 55

Smith KIA............................................................. 33

Experience Lummi Gateway Center.................. 47

Star Rentals.......................................................... 42

Ferndale Community Sponsors......................... 57

Sustainable Connections.................................... 25

Final Touch Auto Spa.......................................... 51

The Cheese Shop - Appel Farms........................ 44

Frontier Communications.................................. 14

Umpqua Bank...................................................... 32

Grandview Golf Course....................................... 17

VacationLand RV................................................. 28

Heston Hauling.................................................... 42

Van Loo’s Auto Service........................................ 34

Historic Downtown Lynden............................... 43

Whatcom Farmers Co-op (WFC)....................... 11

Jake’s Western Grill............................................. 23

Yellow Cab Inc..................................................... 50

Jansen Art Center................................................. 49

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Tractor Trailer Packages Now Available!

Kubota L3301 DT Tractor

Kubota BX25 TLB

33 HP std. trans. w/LA525 loader, AG Tires, 7,000 lb. 2 axle trailer. w/ramps. 60” Landpride box blade, 60” Landpride rotary cutter.

23 HP Tractor Loader Backhoe, 48” Landpride box blade, 7,000 lb. hydraulic dump trailer w/ tarp.

Add $1000 for 0% 60 Mon $0 down OAC. Add $1200 for HST transmission.

0% 60 Months $0 down OAC

$23,995

$22,845

$25,220

$58,595

+ tax, cash.

+ tax.

+ tax, cash.

+ tax, cash.

Kubota L3901 DT Tractor

Kubota KX121-3 Excavator

37.5 HP std. trans. w/LA525 loader, AG tires, 7,000 lb. 2 axle trailer with ramps, 60” Landpride box blade, 60” Landpride rotary cutter.

Open station, rubber tracks, tilt angle blade, quick coupler, thumb, 24” bucket, 14,000 lb. hydraulic dump trailer w/ tarp.

Add $1000 for 0% 60 Months $0 down OAC. Add $1200 for HST Transmission.

Add $2300 for 0% 60 Months $0 down OAC

Scholten's Equipment, Inc. 8223 Guide Meridian Road Lynden, WA 98264 (360) 354-4071

*Rep photos. Pricing and financing programs subject to change. Financing programs vaild through 9/30/14.

www.scholtensequipment.com

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We’re proud to be a sponsor of the Lynden Jr. Livestock Auction.

We offer a great selection of tires:

Good luck kids!

• Car and Light • Semi Truck • Farm • Small/Industrial

Our trained technicians offer: • Alignment • Brakes • Shocks • Suspension

LOCALLY OWNED • GREAT SERVICE • COMPETITIVE PRICING!

WALLGREN TIRE CENTER – LYNDEN 210 Birch Bay-Lynden Road • 354-1446 www.lesschwab.com

2015 HONDA Aggressive New Styling Interior Evolution Performance Machine Packed with Technology

149

$

Per month for 36 months*

2015 Fit CVT LX Featured Special Lease $1,999 total due at signing. *Includes down payment with no security deposit. Excludes taxes, titles and dealer fees.

For well qualified lessees. Conditions apply. See dealer for details.

2010 IOWA STREET BELLINGHAM, WA

(360) 676-2277

Go To www.northwesthonda.com to See Our Full Inventory

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Asphalt Paving Quality with Integrity Locally Owned & Operated Since 1982

360-366-3303

Asphalt Paving • Driveway & Road Building • Parking Lots • Site Prep & Clearing • Environmental Cleanup Utility Installation & Repair • Retaining Walls & Rockeries • Vacuum Excavation • Excavation & Demolition 2 3 8 0 G r a ndview R d., F er n dale 98248 • Resid ential & C om m ercial • wr swe b.c om

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RECYCLING & COMPOSTING SERVICES / MULCH & TOPSOIL SUPPLIER

Choosing to recycle can reduce your garbage up to 30%. Recycling these materials will cost you less than throwing them away by reducing your garbage pick up & utilizing green services.

Green Earth Technology makes water filtering compost with these recycled materials. Used as mulch, G.E.T. compost can reduce your weeding and watering as well as enrich your soil!

YARD DEBRIS All compostable yard debris: grass, weeds, leaves, branches & seasonal items.

NO Plastics, pet waste or trash of any kind...

Thanks!

FOOD All foods including meat scraps, dairy, seafood, fish, shells & bones.

Questions?...please call! 360.354.4936

Hannegan

PAPER All food-soiled or compostable items including pizza boxes, to-go cartons, napkins, paper towels, plates, cups, bowls & utensils.

Meadowlark Rd.

N

Pole Rd.

774 Meadowlark Rd., Lynden ••• OPEN M-F 7:30-4:30 • Saturday 8:00-1:00

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It takes a special kind of community to grow a store like ours. Thanks to loyal customers who care about local quality, Haggen has been able to support Northwest farms, ranchers, fisheries and businesses for almost 81 years. Together we make a sustainable local food economy.

From here…for you.

Visit your local Haggen Northwest Fresh Barkley Village • Sehome Village • Meridian & Illinois • Fairhaven • Ferndale www.haggen.com ©2014 Haggen, Inc. • 140611-03

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Whatcom County’s Leading Real Estate Company Darrel Timmer

Whether you’re relocating to our area or getting ready to buy and sell, give us a call. Let us show you why people in Whatcom County choose Windermere.

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2013 We’re proud to be voted

OF

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www.windermerewhatcom.com

8071 Guide Meridian, Lynden, WA 360-354-4455 • 800-234-1841

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