Monday Featured “Lemonade Weather" at the Fair

  • By Teri Stein
  • September 16, 2013
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Summary: It was sheep, turkeys, chickens, beef and Pig-Linko filling the fair’s Monday schedule which was topped off by the ever popular Tough Truck competition. The day dawned with clouds and light precipitation but by afternoon it was lemonade weather – sunny and warm – at the Tuscarawas County Fair. “The warm weather helps us out,” said Sandy Skirtich of Massillon who was busy making lemonade nonstop by evening. The day’s fair competitions included various Junior Fair Sheep, Poultry, and Beef shows. Judging events can be rather dry but Poultry Judge Larry Lokai of Urbana, who is also known as the OSU Buckeyeman, made the poultry events a little more exciting by getting the crowd involved in singing “Happy Birthday” to others celebrating their special day today, giving away Buckeye necklaces and telling jokes. Lokai has been a Junior Fair Poultry Judge for 45 years. “We have a lot of photos hitting Facebook,” said Barb Airgood. The fair rides opened at 5:00 p.m. to a throng of enthusiastic riders. With so much going on during the day Pig-Linko didn’t start until the evening but when it did it proved to be a big hit with children. Pig-Linko is part of the Commodity Carnival; the activity illustrates the process of producing a commodity by having the children add different components representing the supplies – food, fuel costs, health, nutrition, and facility costs they need to raise a pig – into a pink egg. The egg is weighed to determine the total amount of “money” they have invested. Children then drop there egg down the Pig-Linko board to see how much they made on their pig. “If they make a profit they are a winner, if not we tell them that the 4-H motto is “To make the best better,” so everybody wins,” said Tristan Laughlin, a member of the Junior Fair Board and Happy Homesteaders 4-H Club. There were very few seats open in the Grandstand as one of the fair’s most popular events, Tough Truck, kicked into gear at 7:30 p.m. After a whole year’s wait, the pork burgers at the 2013 fair seemed bigger and juicier. Good thing the week is young leaving plenty of time to try all the tasty treats whose sights and smells attracted crowds to the food vendor sections.


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