2017 Stanwood-Camano Community Fair

87th Annual

Stanwood-Camano Community Fair August 4, 5 & 6, 2017

‘Best Lil Fair in the West’

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‘Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats’ at community fair and Saturday, the entertainment and carnival (opens at noon) continue until the crowds thin out, usually about midnight. Everything closes at 6 p.m. Sunday.

Directions, parking and ticket information are included this guide to the fair.

Fair exhibits showcase Stanwood and Camano Island’s connections to an agricultural past, present and future through entries from kids, adults and organizations.

Visitors from all over the Northwest stop by to see the entertainment, farm demonstrations, animal competitions and hobby

exhibits, or to visit the carnival and sample the food … elephant ears, anyone?

Live performances from such notable entertainers as the Paperboys keep the fairgrounds’ two stages with full lineups.

A pullout schedule is inside this guide and online at stanwoodcamanofair.org.

Should anyone choose to count, roughly 1,400 exhibitors present about 4,500 examples of livestock, baked goods, clothing, arts and crafts, horticulture and hobbies to numerous to list.

Winning exhibitors collect more than $20,000 in premium

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Other businesses — Stanwood Country Store, Les Schwab Tires, Lenz Enterprises, Cole & Gilday law office and Windermere Real Estate— are specialty sponsors, supporting things like the coloring contest, shade tents and livestock barns for the animals.

Still other companies and business owners — Envirotek, Scholten’s Equipment Inc., Brim Tractor and Stanwood Camano News — sponsor fair activities or promote the fair in other ways.

To all of these merchants and agencies, Bravo! This sense of caring and level of support makes it fun to live in this rural community.

— Stanwood Camano News Staff

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Boots, Chaps & Cowboy Hats...........3

Lip Sync Contest ..............................12

Fair bubbles .....................................21

Coloring Contest ...............................4

Entertainment guide pullout ..... 13-15

Exhibitor information .......................22

Directions, hours, tickets, shuttle .....5

Map of fairgrounds ........................ 16

Carnival fun ......................................23

Designing a garden ...................... 6-7

Fair volunteers & board ...................17

History of fair buildings .............. 24-26

Making pigs look pretty ................ 8-9

Rotary fair parade .....................18, 19

Sponsors ...........................................27

Antique tractors ......................... 10-11

Grange founded the fair .................20

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It’s fair time in the Port Susan area! And “Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats” is just part of three days of fun at the 2017 Stanwood Camano Community Fair, happening Aug. 5-7 at the fairgrounds, 6431 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.

Since its beginning as a oneday celebration of the harvest in 1932, the fair is tagged as “The Best Lil’ Fair in the West,” one of the largest remaining community fairs in the state.

Gates at the fairgrounds open at 9 a.m. all three days. Although the vendors, exhibitors and ticket sellers call it a day at 9 p.m. Friday

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Behind the scenes of community fairs are hordes of volunteers, along with sponsors and donors, all rarely mentioned. But everyone at the fair enjoys the results of their support.

Fair event sponsors and those who help defray the organization’s expenses in other ways deserve everyone’s gratitude — organizers and visitors alike.

Sponsoring businesses — Pub 282, Camano Plaza IGA, Spane Buildings, Camano Plaza Express Lube, Camano Island Ace Hardware, Dwayne Lane auto centers and Heritage Bank — are funding entertainment and events during this year’s Stanwood Camano Community Fair.

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Coloring Contest Rules & Information 1. Use any medium (crayons, watercolors, markers, colored pencils, acrylics, macaroni, etc.)

2. Age categories: • Up to age 5 • 6-8 years old • 9-12 years old 3. All work must be done by the entrant.

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The Stanwood-Camano Community Fairgrounds are located two miles south of the city of Stanwood, on Pioneer Highway, an hour north of Seattle and 45 minutes south of Bellingham.

For GPS users, key in the address: 6431 Pioneer Highway, Stanwood.

By car, take I-5 Exit 212 and travel west three miles on State Route 532. Turn left on 64th Avenue and continue about a mile.

Parking is on the left and the fair is on the right.

From the south, take Pioneer Highway from I-5 Exit 208 for a scenic drive through the Stillaguamish River Valley.

Parking

Several locations offer parking during the fair.

• For free parking, try the parking lots at Stanwood High School, 7400 272nd St. NW and ride the free shuttle bus directly to the fairgrounds gate — departures every 15 minutes starting at 9 a.m. Friday through Sunday.

• During non-fair times, parking is available in the self-parking lot at the west entrance of the fairgrounds, off Pioneer Highway, north of the Stillaguamish Grange Hall.

Fair hours Friday & Saturday, Aug. 4-5:

• Fair ticket office, vendors and exhibits: 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.

• Carnival: noon to close • Entertainment: 9 a.m. to close • Shuttle bus to/from the high school: 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.

Sunday, Aug. 6:

• Fair: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

• Carnival and entertainment: noon to close.

• Shuttle bus: 9 a.m. to 6 p.m.

Shuttle service

A free shuttle runs to and from parking lots at Stanwood High School, 7400 272nd St. NW, to the fair entrance gate — every 15 minutes from 9 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. Sunday.

• For $5 a day, park across the road from the fairgrounds at 64th Avenue NW.

Fair & carnival admission

Tickets for the fair and the carnival are for sale at a discount July through Aug. 3. Fair admission for children to age 5 is free.

At the gate

• Fair admission: $10 adults; $7 ages 6-17 and seniors; $20 for a threeday pass.

• Carnival tickets: $30, one-day unlimited ride

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Advance tickets

Can be used on any fair day. Purchase by 5 p.m.

Aug. 3 to get a $2 discount and avoid waiting in line at the fair: • Fair admission: $8 adults; $5 age 6-17 and seniors; $18 for three-day pass; $70 for family pack (admission for 2 adults and 2 youth, 2 carnival bracelets and one-day parking pass — a $99

value), advance only.

• Carnival tickets: $22, one-day unlimited ride wristband.

To buy advance tickets, stop by the fair office or call 360-629-4121 or shop online through the Online Store at stanwoodcamanofair.org. T-shirts and sweatshirts are offered only at the fair office.

Stanwood Country Store, 8815 272nd St. NW, also sells carnival passes.

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Designing a garden Three SHS students create a horticulture exhibit in fair’s theme

By SARAH ARNEY Three students from Stanwood High School have accepted the challenge of designing a garden for this year’s fair, in the theme Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats.

Eli Fuentes is working with Karly Wethem and Anna Jensen, with their horticulture teacher, Mike Hogan, as advisor to design and install the garden in time for the fair.

“We are talking about putting barn boards up as a back drop and hanging chaps and hats on it,” Fuentes said, while checking the condition of the garden plot recently.

Their “canvas” is a 15-by-15 feet raised bed of dirt, backed by the red metal of the display barn on the

fairgrounds.

“We will choose some small trees or large shrubs for the back and will make a path of stepping stones with flowers in the front,” said the 16-yearold.

Fuentes has been involved in the local fair all his life, in some way or another. One year he did a landscape with his siblings. This is his first official FFA project.

“No, we don’t get any high school credit, but there are cash rewards,” said Fuentes, who planted an acre garden at home and is now busy weeding it.

The family just moved from seven acres to 55 acres, north of town, plenty of room for a very large ■ SEE GARDEN, PAGE 7

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Eli Fuentes checks out the condition of the horticulture display area at the Stanwood Camano Community Fairgrounds. A junior at Stanwood High School, he is working with two other SHS students, designing a garden to illustrate the fair theme — Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats.

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Using cowboy boots as planters might be a feature of the landscape designed by SHS students for the fair’s theme, “Boots, Chaps and Cowboy Hats.”

vegetable garden. He started some grapes this year, and planted squash and pumpkins, carrots, corn, peas and green beans. Oh, and beets, which are just about ready to eat.

“I like my beets pickled,” he said.

During this first year of horticulture, Fuentes said he enjoyed growing poinsettias and helping plant flower baskets for the city streets. He liked planting bulbs and making wreathes, too.

His horticulture team won fourth place at state competition, while the flora-culture team placed third.

Also a culinary student at SHS, Fuentes doesn’t seem too interested in stir-frying the vegetables from his garden.

“I prefer baking cakes,” he said.

This summer, he is doing some yard work and helping pick blueberries at Hazel Blue Acres blueberry farm, which his relatives own.

‘(Flowers) are a challenge, but the reward is great.’

— Eli Fuentes, SHS junior horticulture designer The high school junior plans to study botany and genetics at college, and learn how to develop diseaseand drought-resistant plants for countries with climate challenges.

Meanwhile, he’ll borrow some

plants from Orchard’s Nursery for the display garden at the fair.

“They always provide plants for the horticulture exhibit,” Fuentes said.

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Making pigs look pretty Brother and sister to show swine at the fair

By Dylan Greene Pigs get a bad rap.

Words like stinky, lazy and muddy are typically associated with these curlytailed animals.

The common theme is pigs are pigs.

But Justice and Jasper Newkirk see the softer side of pigs every day and believe people don’t fully understand them.

“Pigs are one of the smartest animals you can have,” Justice said.

Justice, a senior this fall, has participated in the FFA program at the high school for the past three years.

Each year she has shown pigs at the Stanwood Camano Community Fair and

Showing Swine Justice and Jasper Newkirk will show their pigs Friday, Aug. 4, at 9:30 a.m. in the Swine Arena at the Stanwood Camano Fair.

other regional fairs.

A sophomore in the fall, Jasper is in his first year showing pigs and participating in FFA. Justice looked into showing while doing a supervised agricultural experience project as a freshman.

“My teacher (Mr. Hougan) said we could do anything, like make a

garden and take pictures of it, but I thought that sounded boring,” Justice said. “Then my teacher told us we could raise an animal for our project.”

She said her mind immediately began racing, wondering what animal she would raise.

“At first, I thought I was just going to raise chickens and then I told my dad and he said why don’t you raise pigs,” she said. “I told my dad we don’t have room for pigs, but he didn’t listen.”

To make room for the pigs, the siblings’ dad, Douglas, replaced the playground in the front yard with a pig pen.

“They outgrew the playground,” Douglas said,

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Justice and Jasper Newkirk use whips to parade their pigs around their front yard.

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The Newkirks now have two pigs in the pen, but earlier this year they had eight — they sold three and three more went in the freezer.

The Newkirks sell pigs as

meat at auctions, a harsh reality Justice faced during her first experience showing pigs.

“I cried the first year,” she said, but added she doesn’t feel as bad about it now.

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sale because she cries,” Justice said.

Despite knowing what will eventually happen to their pigs, Justice and Jasper feed, bathe and train their pigs almost every day to make sure they are pretty as they can be for show day.

“I really like showing, it’s fun,” Justice said.

Even the neighbors get to see the pig she plans to show at the Silvana, Stanwood and Skagit County fairs this summer; she leads Beau around her neighborhood during training sessions.

Jasper, who has yet to name his pig, will show at the same three fairs.

The Newkirks’ pigs are brothers that have been together since birth.

Both pigs are Durocs, one of several breeds.

“This is my first year

showing a Duroc,” Justice said. “Before this year, I’ve always shown crossbreeds.”

At seven months old, the pigs are no longer small; they each weigh over 225 pounds now but can’t exceed 300 pounds on show day.

They actually had to put the pigs on a diet for two months because they were getting too big too fast, dad Douglas said.

For now, the Newkirks feed the pigs morning and evening, but will soon put them on open feed, meaning the pigs can eat whatever they want, whenever they want.

Jasper wasn’t enthusiastic about showing pigs to start with.

“My sister made me do it,” he said.

But he said now he likes the training and has learned a lot from raising a pig.

“I learned how to train an animal, how to nourish it and how to keep its

weight in a good range to sell,” he said.

While he sees fitting and showing pigs as a side project, “I can take things from this experience and apply it to other things I do in life,” he said.

Justice, on the other hand, loves animals. She plans to attend Washington State University after high school with hopes of becoming a veterinarian.

Last year at the Stanwood Camano Community Fair, Justice won the reserve champion award for fitting and showing swine, but she wasn’t satisfied with that result and is determined to finish at the top this year.

“This is really my last year showing,” she said.

“I will do the Puget Sound Junior Livestock Show, but take the summer off to get ready for college.”

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Brightly painted antique tractors bring farm roots to fair Lawnmower-tractors to compete in sled-pulling contest

By JEREMIAH O’HAGAN The first tractor in Jim Farkas’s collection was sitting in a foot of water at the edge of a slough when he spied it.

It was between Everett and Marysville, where Cascade Ford had an overflow lot, and it was no place for a 1949 Minneapolis-Moline (MM).

See, Farkas has a soft spot for MMs. His dad used them to farm the family property in Ohio, where Farkas grew up. So when he saw the tractor rusting at the edge of the slough, he did what needed to be done.

“Me and my daughter drove over there in the truck, I put on my boots and hooked a chain to it, and we hauled it out onto dry land,” Farkas said.

That was in the mid-1980s. Farkas, 73, now has 16 antique MM tractors in his collection, including a 1947 that was his

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Jim Farkas owns 16 antique Minneapolis-Moline tractors, and will show half a dozen or so at Stanwood Camano Community Fair. Farkas also participates in Sky Valley Stock and Antique Tractor Club’s lawn mower tractor pull.

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The one he pulled from the slough, oddly enough, looks the same as it did the day he hooked a chain to it.

“But it runs,” he said. “Paint don’t make ‘em run.”

Farkas and his wife moved to the outskirts of Stanwood three years ago, bringing the tractors with them.

“I grew up with them on the farm in Ohio,” he said. “I still have farming in my blood, but no farm. So, I have tractors.”

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Tractors

‘Paint don’t make ‘em run.’

â– FROM PAGE 10

— Jim Farkas, about his old tractors

they’re all “wore out.�

Last year, Farkas showed half a dozen of his tractors at Stanwood Camano Community Fair, and he plans to do the same this year — “all the painted ones,� he said.

Farkas is a member of Sky Valley Stock and Antique Tractor Club in Monroe, which also sponsors the lawn mowertractor pull — think tractor pull, but with riding lawnmowers or garden tractors.

The little tractors pull a weighted sled — basically a long trailer with a weight on it.

At the starting line, the weight is over the sled’s axle. As the sled is pulled down the track, the weight, which is linked to the sled’s wheels, is winched forward, pushing the front of the sled onto the ground, adding resistance until the tractor can’t overcome the friction. “Last year, we had 10 or 12 guys (par-

ticipating),� Farkas said. “We should have about the same this year.�

Farkas has a tractor for this, too. It’s a Sears 18-horsepower, but he painted it like a MM. The tractor has weights on it, so it doesn’t just sit there and spin its wheels at the starting line. With the souped-up engine’s throaty idle, it’s hard to believe it started as a grass cutter.

But then, who would guess Farkas pulled his first tractor from a slough.

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Syncing with the music Only one song, suitable for all ages, is allowed per entry and no professionals are allowed. Music must be provided on a CD, and postmarked

by July 28, to SCCF Lip Sync, PO Box 901, Stanwood, 98292.

All contestants must attend a dress rehearsal at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3, or be disqualified. Discount passes for fair admission will be available at rehearsal.

Semifinals for individual youth and group adult performers will start at 4 p.m. Friday, Aug. 4, and at 4 p.m.

Saturday, Aug. 5, for group youth and individual adult contestants.

Finals begin at 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 7.

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Anyone who loves the art can enter the Lip Sync Contest, though not everyone may earn the right to perform for the audience.

Catchy tunes are preferable, something the audience knows and less than four minutes long (longer will be disqualified).

Contestants are judged on their ability to follow the song, their costumes and choreography and audience participation.

Cash prizes are awarded to single performers — adults 18 and older and youth to age 17 — $100 first place, $75 second place and $50 third place.

A group of adults and or youth performers can win $200 first place, $100 second place and $50 third place.

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Lots of live music on the Viking Stage Viking Main Stage Entertainment schedule Friday, August 4 2 p.m. – Camano Dance Academy 4 p.m. – Lip Sync 5 p.m. – Ron Stubbs, rock-n-roll hypnotist 7 p.m. – Aaron Crawford 9 p.m. – The Paperboys

Saturday, August 5

The Paperboys – Friday, 9 p.m.

They’ve been called a variety of things, from Cajun slamgrass to worldbeat.

Based in Vancouver, British Columbia, Tom Landa founded the Paperboys when he moved there in 1995, and their free-wheeling blend of Celtic and bluegrass, with the spice of Mexican Son Jarocho brass band music creates a unique Canadian roots music. They received a Juno award and two Juno nominations from their nine albums. The latest collection, “At Peace With One’s Ghosts,” is performed by Landa and his wife, Kalissa, along with Geoffrey Kelly on flute and whistles, Brad Gillard on bass and banjo, drummer Sam Esecson and saxophonist Kareem Kandi.

The songs on the album draw from Landa’s poems inspired by his journeys over the past six years, like “Back To You,” a love song for his son, or “Mismo Latido,” that speaks to the truth that as you travel, you find out more things unite us than divide us. “City of Chains” speaks to Landa’s disillusionment with his home city, where artists struggled for years under Harper’s government.

“What means more to me than anything else is to hear stories from people who tell me that our songs helped them through a tough time, or that they used one of our songs for their wedding, or that an album of ours was the soundtrack of their summer. At the end of the day, accolades are nice, but they are nothing compared to connecting with people.”

1 p.m. – The Hometowners 3 p.m. – Megs McLean 4 p.m. – Lip Sync 5 p.m. – Ron Stubbs, rock-n-roll hypnotist 7 p.m. – Petty Fever 9 p.m. – Creedence Revelation

Sunday, August 6 1 p.m. – Alex Ashley 3:45 p.m. – Style Show 4 p.m. – Ron Stubbs, rock-n-roll hypnotist 5 p.m. – Lip Sync

Aaron Crawford – Friday 7 p.m.

Aaron Crawford was raised in the hotbed music scene of Seattle and he blends his influences, from church music to Johnny Cash, all the way to U2, embracing the sounds of the Northwest, where he performs on a weekly basis. After paying his dues for years on the honky-tonk circuit, his songs are rooted in a field of pop country artists, with the courage to be genuine. His albums include Evergreen and Modern Day American. He has performed several times at Loco Billy’s Wild Moon Saloon in Stanwood, and he is scheduled at Newcastle Summer Concerts Aug. 2 and Four Square Mile Music Festival in Tenino July 29, as well as the local fair Friday, Aug. 4.

Megs McLean – 3 p.m. Saturday Megs McLean evolved from being a country girl and competition barrel racer to a country music singer and actor who blends the heart of country in the Pacific Northwest with the norules “play it like you feel it” Seattle style that has been bending and morphing music for generations.

“She’s got some great pipes and really knows what she’s after,” said London Bridge Studios co-owner/producer Geoff Ott. McLean has a full schedule this summer playing the fair circuit including the Whidbey Island Fair, Skagit County and Pierce County fairs, as well as Emory’s in Everett on July 28, Quil Ceda Creek Casino, Aug. 26 and Old Edison, Sept. 2.

Petty Fever – Saturday, 7 p.m.

A tribute to Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, based in Vancouver, Washington, Petty Fever won Tribute Band of the Year in 2013 and 2014 in the LA Music Awards. Featuring Frank Murray, guitar and vocals, performing over four decades of classic Petty hits such as American Girl, Free Falling, Breakdown, Running Down a Dream, I Won’t Back Down, You Wreck Me and many more to thrilled crowds of all ages in a high-energy show featuring Frank Murray, with back-up vocals by Tim Baltus, on guitar, Steve Kuepker on bass, Jack Codron on keyboard and Craig Ostbo, drummer.

Louie Foxx offers more than just magic in his one-man roving show that also includes comedy and cowboy tricks.

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Ron Stubbs – 5 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 4 p.m. Sunday A perennial favorite at the Stanwood Camano Community Fair, Ron Stubbs, performs his hypnosis comedy show around the globe. He has appeared in major motion pictures with such stars as River Phoenix and Lili Taylor and has written six books and recorded more than 40 CD and video/DVD programs. His CD, The Heart’s Journey, was considered for seven Grammy nominations in 2003 and has been called “the rock star of hypnosis” by Backstage Magazine.

Stubbs is a certified clinical hypnotherapist and trainer, and a body language expert who is sought after as a motivational speaker.

Stubbs says he has re-invented himself many times and life keeps getting better.

“I’ve been a custom car designer, an author, recording artist, professional musician, an actor, aircraft toolmaker, a trainer, therapist, public speaker ... and a stage hypnotist,” he said.

He enjoys teaching others about the possibilities that life has to offer when someone uses his mind.

“Our vision of the world is only limited by what we imagine it to be limited by,” Stubbs says on his website.

Creedence Revelation with Randy Linder – Saturday 9 p.m.

Creedence Revelation is a Creedence Clearwater Revival tribute band based in Olympia.

Those who haven’t had the chance to see Creedence Clearwater Revival in a live concert might consider Creedence Revelation, led by Randy Linder.

Creedence Revelation has entertained audiences from coast to coast and in other countries, delivering all of the hits made famous by John Fogerty and CCR between the years 1968 and 1972. Creedence fans have noted this bands’ authenticity. Linder’s visual resemblance to John Fogerty, as well as his voice, and even his lead guitar style, help bring CCR back to life like no other tribute act.

Linder even replicates the rockin’ blues harp played by Fogerty, a talented singer and songwriter who helped shape the American music culture.

The Hometowners – Saturday 1 p.m.

Alex Ashley – Sunday 1 p.m.

Tom and Joe live in Burlington and they play country classics and country rock from the past, including songs from Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Elvis, Johnny Horton, Hank Williams, Freddie Fender, Hank Snow and others.

Locals may remember former Stanwood Camano News reporter, Alex Ashley, who weaves old with new, in his unorthodox approach, such as playing his guitar upside down and backwards, delivering heartfelt vocals rooted firmly in the musical traditions of country and rock and roll. A triple-threat singer, songwriter and instrumentalist, Ashley creates an amalgam of insightful lyrics to tell stories with his sultry, smoky vocals and guitar playing that brings his songs to life. Now 27, Ashley crosses the boundaries of folk, blues and Americana music with his original songwriting.

Camano Dance Academy – Friday 2 p.m.

The prize-winning Camano Dance Academy offers classes in ballet and pointe, hip hop, jazz, tap, acro, musical theater, preschool dance, competition team, lyrical, contemporary, worship, tumbling, or technique classes on Camano Island.

CDA’s hip hop dancers won first place overall for the third year running at the Seattle Dupree Dance Competition. The hip-hop dancers are guided by the talent and passion of their coach/choreographer Sarah Brudvik Cooper.

Lip Sync – Friday & Saturday 4 p.m.

Finals at 5 p.m. Sunday The fair’s Lip Sync Competition provides the opportunity for community members to take the stage, performing short, catchy and familiar songs that capture the audience’s attention. To qualify for the stage competition during the fair, all entrants must attend a dress rehearsal at 5 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 3. Individual semifinalists perform in front of an audience at 4 p.m.

Friday, Aug. 4, on the Viking Main Stage. Group semifinalist performances start at 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 5.

Finalists close the fair, starting at 5 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 6, with winners announced soon after.

Buskers

Matt Henry will be making bubbles and Louie Foxx will be making magic around the fairgrounds.

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Running the nonprofit Stanwood Camano Community Fair is not a simple task. It takes hundreds of volunteers and a dedicated fair board to produce the high-quality three-day extravaganza and community celebration.

A 21-member board of directors manages the fair. Its five officers are President Kevin Plambeck, Vice President Justin Shirley, Past President Jim Anderson, Treasurer Tod Klundt and Secretary Crystal Bosse.

Board members are Don Bayes, Austin Bougie, Julie Bowers, Krista Cairus, Mike Cairus, Chris Carlson, Tony Holtum, Darryl Main, Pat Metz, Bruce Miller, Margaret Olson, Mary Pearson, Larry Saimons, Willie Schatz, Ross Short and Gale Sobolesky.

These directors and a group of loyal volunteers start planning for the next year almost as soon as each fair ends.

Fair manager Belinda Royal works with fair superintendents, who oversee one area or department of exhibitors, vendors, entertainment, carnival and parking.

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Each superintendent works with a crew of volunteers, who are assigned by volunteer coordinator Mary Pearson, according to Margaret Olson, board member and livestock superintendent.

Fair superintendents for the animal exhibits also include Mikel Levi, Marissa Hansen, Michelle Bell, Nancy Cummings, Joan Phillips, Adam Stevens, Joselyn Stevens, Kacee Bloedel, Holly Barnes, Don Stanwyck, Heidi Dennistoun, Bec Thomas, Camas French, Rick Lindsey, Jean Lindsey, Marchele Gambel, Lisa Self and Tami Akins.

Superintendents for static (indoor) exhibits are Diane Anderson, Julie Bowers, Debbie Bowers, Joy Rupphun, Sandy Auckland, Kathryn Major, Carrol Bruso, Linda Albert, Crystal Bosse, Carol Jensen, Mike Hougan, Jessica Nemnich, Darryl Main, Sheri Johns and Martha White.

Hundreds of other volunteers lend a hand, often unseen and unacknowledged, but Olson said they are essential and appreciated.

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with such tasks as updating the fair’s website or Facebook page and selling tickets to helping at the information booth or cleaning up.

Anyone interested is asked to call the fair office at 360-629-4121 or Mary at 425-356-9659.

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the flyover this year, weather permitting.

“The Black Jacks are my favorite part of the parade,” he said.

Clubs, teams, businesses, politicians and organizations can enter in one of seven categories — bands and musical groups, drill teams and marching groups, equestrians, floats, vehicles and political groups.

Vehicles and floats must have insurance. Equestrian entries must have a cleanup crew.

The cost to enter is $50 for nonprofit groups, $150 for businesses, $250 for political candidates and $1,000 for political groups.

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Twin City Foods Inc. entered a float in the 2016 Stanwood Camano Rotary Parade. It was one of numerous companies showing their support for the Stanwood Camano Community Fair.

Rotary accepts applications (posted online at StanwoodRotary.com) from parade participants through July 31 this year.

That’s the easy part, Sailer said.

Creating the lineup order for some 80 entries is always the challenge.

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Nearly everyone in the Port Susan area seems to turn out to watch the Stanwood Camano Rotary Parade as it travels down Main Street (271st Street NW) on the first Saturday in August, as part of the StanwoodCamano Community Fair.

Rotarian Dan Sailer with United Methodist Church heads up the parade organizing committee of Al Dreas, Steve McCoy, Julie Vess and Mary O’Connor. Rotarian Scott Thomas with Thomas and Associates chips in where he can, leaning on his experience organizing past parades.

“I love this parade,” said Dan Sailer.

“It’s such a great event for gathering the community together. Our family and friends unite for a fun-filled fair weekend. And Rotary works so hard to make this happen.”

Once a rarity, parade flyovers have become a popular attraction at the Rotary Parade. Thomas said a group of retired guys called the Black Jacks are planning to bring seven-10 planes for

Parade entry forms are available online at stanwoodrotary.org Mail completed application by July 31 with payment to: ROTARY PARADE PO Box 1754 Stanwood, WA 98292

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Who gets to lead? Where do we put the trucks and cars with loud engines or noisy exhaust?

Which entries are best placed before and after the musical groups? And who follows the horses?

Somehow it all comes together prior to lineup in the parking lot west of the Amtrak Station.

The parade generally starts with the American Legion color guard, then emergency services, the mayor and grand marshal — two this year — retired StanFILE PHOTO wood Elementary School teacher Camano Dance Academy students perform handMary Wennerberg and Delaney stands and show off other skills Aug. 6 during the McDowell, age 8.

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Grange founded the fair, now serves as host Burger booth raises funds to maintain building, support community It started as a dance hall.

The small, wooden building along Pioneer Highway was purchased in 1935 by the Stillaguamish Grange, and since then the white Grange Hall remains at the heart of the Rotary Community Fair.

The Stillaguamish Grange started the fair to honor local agriculture.

Although the Grange handed management of the fair over to a fair board many years ago, they continue to serve hamburgers every year in one of its biggest fundraisers.

The Grange celebrated its 80th birthday three years ago. It was formed in 1934 with help from the Masons to create a unified voice about a proposed railroad through the Stillaguamish River Valley.

In recent years, the Grange advocated for the state’s “Top 2” primary.

The national Grange organization continues to serve as an issues-oriented lobbying organization, and the local Grange continues to serve the community Sarah arney PhOTO by hosting numerThe Stillaguamish Grange started the fair to honor agriculture. The Grange continues to own ous events at the the building and the land, although the fair is managed by its own fair board. fairgrounds.

A “new-age” farmer who grows organic onstration garden, planting in stock School District and scholarships to vegetables in the Stillaguamish River tanks and straw bales. They chose flowgraduating seniors. Since starting Words flood plain, Char Byde manages rentals ers that would draw pollinators. for Thirds in 2004, they have distributed and programs for the local Grange.

While the Grange works on behalf of more than 2,400 dictionaries.

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Exhibitor Information

‘Best lil’ fair in the West’ As one of the largest community fairs in the state, yet smaller than a county or state fair, the StanwoodCamano Community Fair offers plenty of action for exhibitors of all ages.

Kids don’t have to be in 4-H, FFA or a special group to show animals or projects at this community fair.

Adults can exhibit in any indoor categories and in equestrian showing and gaming. Because of space, however, the fair limits the other animal departments to youth exhibitors.

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Entries for all indoor exhibits are accepted Aug. 1-2, 2-6 p.m. Tuesday and 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday.

Indoor exhibits include fleece and handspinning.

Animal exhibits are accepted Aug. 3, 4-8 p.m. Thursday or 7-9 a.m. each day, depending on the department.

Tips for first-time exhibitors

1. Bring your exhibit during the slower daytime hours, if possible.

2. Bring produce, flowers and baked goods Wednesday night so they are fresh for judging. Produce and flowers can be refreshed as needed.

3. Children are limited to seven different craft exhibits.

4. Entries must have been completed after the prior year’s fair.

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7. If a youth is entering livestock, he or she must have completed and mailed the livestock entry form before Wednesday, July 26, for sheep, alpaca/llama, swine, fiber goats, dairy goats, pygmy goats, dairy and beef and before Monday, July 31, for small animals, dogs and horses.

8. Ask questions of the hosts, exhibitors and superintendents.

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Travel back through history at the fair Fairgrounds’ buildings have a story to tell

Visiting the Stanwood-Camano Community Fair is the next best thing to time travel.

Not only because the fair is such a traditional American phenomenon, but also because the growth of the fairgrounds through the years tells Stanwood’s story in its buildings, with views into the way things were through the 20th century.

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150-year-old Erdahl Cabin, built by K. K. Erdahl before the 1870s in Cedarhome, on the south side of 77th Avenue NW near 276th Street NW. It has been said the Erdahls hired Indians to work for them and it is presumed the Indians did the “split log cabin” work.

The structure is technically not a log cabin because it was built of split cedar planks about 8 inches thick – the same technique the Northwest Indians used to build their long houses.

Some local historians believe it may be the only split cedar log cabin left in the state.

At some point, the cabin was moved to school property in the flat area south of Lincoln School (now Stanwood Community and Senior Center) to be used as a school.

When the school district decided to build the high school stadium there, the log cabin was given to the city of Stanwood and moved to Church Creek Park.

After a few years, the city realized it had neither the money nor manpower to maintain the log cabin and the responsibility was handed over to the Stanwood Area Historical Society, which then passed it on to the Stanwood Lions Club.

In 1974, the Lions Club had Red Faulkner move the cabin to the fairgrounds for use as a museum. Up to that point, it had no floor, but for the dirt it sat upon. A floor was built and a small room was removed.

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Settre Cabin

Another structure on the fairgrounds, called the Settre Cabin, was built around 1880

by Rasmus L. Settre and his wife. The Settres arrived in Stanwood in June that year, and their fifth child, Josephine, was born in the cabin. Their eldest daughter’s name was Maria and their three boys were Lars and twins Jacob and Andrew.

The cabin was built with timber cleared from land where the Settres farmed, on 284th Street NW, a few miles north of where it is now. It was moved to the fairgrounds in 1965.

The cabin is owned by the Stanwood Area Historical Society and maintained by the Stanwood Lions Club and fair board.

Blacksmith shop

Also on display at the fairgrounds is a blacksmith shop built by Porter Garrison out of telephone poles. Originally a playhouse for his family, Erny Landry set up the house as a working blacksmith shop for fair demonstrations in the 1950s and ‘60s.

Fair post office

A storage-shed-turnedpost office was donated to the Stanwood Lions Club and has been used ever since as an actual working post office during the fair. It is of interest to stamp collectors because of the registered cancel and envelope cachet.

Crane truck

Another historical monument that found a home at the fairgrounds is a 1919 crane truck that was used to log much of Camano Island.

According to the display on

the Stanwood Area Historical Society website, the truck was assembled at Portland Iron Works in 1919 for the Washington State Bridge Building Union and had a role in building many bridges in Western Washington.

In 1930 it was sold to Walt Garrison of Camano Island, who used it while loggin the entire south end of Camano Island, Society officials say.

“The rusty, historic hulk serves as a monument to the work horses of the past,” according to documents created by fair volunteers.

Other structures

A display building was built in 2000 to house buggy wagons, plows and other farm implements. And, perhaps most intriguing of all, a cedar stump house is now most often used as a prop for family photos.

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The Garrison-Landry Blacksmith Shop, shown on the Stanwood Camano Fairgrounds, was built using telephone poles by Porter Garrison, originally as a playhouse for his children. Erny Landry changed it to a working blacksmith shop for fair demonstrations in the 1950s.

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