re
Fall Fair ’91
cont'd from pg.3

Community Grounds and - the.
Thornhill Agricultural Grounds
Comunitice was formed to manage
it. T.A.G. committee consists of
representatives from the Skeena
Valley Fairs Association, Totem
Saddle Club and Skeena District 4-
H Council. T.A.G. reports to the
Regional District of Kitimat/St-
kine,

The logo contest was won by
Jody McMurray and this multi-
faceted logo is still used today.

’ That same year, the 4-H Council
- puilt the livestock barn.

In 1985, the -Fall Fair poultry/-
rabbit bam was built. It was also
the first year of the Fall Horse-
show, sponsored by the 4-H Club.

1989 was the first of Lion’s
Loggers Sports revived. Last year
saw the heavy horse pull event
enter the ring. This year, same as
last, the heavy horses will be
warming up and down by taking
young and old alike on hayrides
around the Thornhill Community
Grounds.

This weekend, come out and
celebrate the 21st anniversary of

the Skeena Valley Fairs Associ-
ation with fun, food and festivities

abounding.

Besides the regular Fall Fair
events visitors can view or partici-
pate in, the two-day horse show
sponsored by the 4-H Club and the
Totem Saddle Club, heavy horse
pulls, Shriners clowns, music by
local musicians, a heavy equipment
display, an auction of exhibit items
by our own Leo DeJong, Provin-
cial Emergency Program, Amateut
Radio Club, Skeena Valley Car
Club displays, hayrides and the
Skeena Valley Rotary Club’s
Bavarian Garden.

Betty Cro

by Stephanie Wiebe

I have yearned to enter the fall
fair since September of 1966. That
was the year I first discovered the

tidy displays of jams, cakes,. ~~

sweaters and flowers in my own
home town. I can stili picture the

thick, glossy brownies arranged on

white paper doilies, and the tiny
pink flowers stitched on smooth
pillowcases, I remember thinking
about the careful work that went

into each item, the many hands ~

that created every detail. Walking
through the fall fair displays gave
me a warm feeling, a timeless
feeling of family and handcrafted
homemaking, I became determined

_ to join that rank of creativity.

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I began by baking a cake, J was -
ten years old, and Betty Crocker’s -

knowing smile on the cookbook
cover gave me the confidence |
needed. But Betty’s portrait was
not enough. While my mother
scraped brown cake batter off the

kitchen wall, I chipped something |

resembling a meteorite out of the
pan, and thought seriously about a
new fall fair project.

The bread baking episode was an
experiment in yeast and volume.
Again, it was all Betty’s fault. Her
insufficient warning about accurate
yeast measurement was inexcus-
able, While my mother scraped the
bread dough off the kitchen wall

- (“And how ever did you manage to

get it under the fridge, young
lady?"), I gravely determined that
the Home Baking Division would
not be my specialty.

Luckily, there were other divi-

sions. My patient Aunt Katie

decided to teach me embroidery.
She likely had visions of her
young niece sitting quietly before
the fire, producing intricately
stitched samplers by the thousands.
She never dreamed there would be
so much blood, I’m sure. Some-
how the needle wouldn’t go in the

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“right direction, and my cross-stitch

X’s looked more like droopy K’s,
and the French knots became a
hideous, bulbous mass of thread. I
don’t know what went wrong. I
was never quite able to stitch
anything resembling fall fair cal-
ibre. I. only remember that my
patient aunt turned out to be a
cranky foul-mouthed old lady just
about then.

Meanwhile, I was getting older,
and fall fairs were passing me by.
I planned carefully for the Home

Produce division, comparing seed

varieties and tilling a small corner
of the garden. I figured vegetable
growing would be a simple accom-
plishment, since nature did most of
the work. I hadn’t realized, how-
ever, that nature can produce some
pitiful exhibitions, too. Nature is
also to blame for rocks and bugs.
When fall fair time arrived, 1 dis-
covered that there was no prize
category labelled “grossly
deformed vegetable specimens’.
It was 1974 when my fall fair
dreams crashed. Late that summer,

I examined my talents, and.

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accepted the fact that meteorite
cake baking, hideous bloody knots
of thread and disfigured vegetables
were not going to get me any-
where. I briefly toyed with the
idea of a livestock entry, but the
only livestock prospects I had were
a sleepy one-eyed mutt of a dog, a
snarly camivorous hamster, some
depressed guppies and a recently
deceased turtle. Of this group, the
turtle was the most animated. I
stopped thinking about entering the
fall fair soon after.

That year, the fair was the best
I'd seen. And it has been ever
since. Having produced such gro-
tesquely inadequate samples, I can
fully appreciate the myriad of
talents on display. But I have no
yearning to participate, merely to
admire those who do.

Well, maybe there’s still a tiny
bit of yearning left. That
"Knobbiest" vegetable category has
caught my eye. IF they’d only
extend that category to cakes, |
just might have an entry.

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