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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 2015
Chris Mayhew cmayhew@communitypress.com
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Alexandria Fair Board member Sandy Shaw’s great niece Lily Disney of Alexandria holds a third-place yellow ribbon from the open Western horse competition at last year’s Alexandria Fair & Horse Show.
ride midway, an entertainment stage and exhibit hall and livestock barn displays. Inside a new exhibit hall opened last year, trophy-aspiring entries including homegrown vegetables and fruits and homemade canned goods are on display next to local art and photographs. The fair’s entertainment stage will feature promenading pageant entrants, Hula Hoop contest and a dog and puppy show. New attractions this year include a $5 per ride mechanical bull eight-
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Fair adds riding cowboy shooting, mechanical bull ALEXANDRIA — There’s room for mechanical bull rides, a carnival midway and pageants at Campbell County’s horse-powered fair Sept. 2-7. A parade of horses, vintage tractors, cars and Campbell County High School’s marching band kicked off the 159th Alexandria Fair & Horse Show at 6:45 p.m. Wednesday. This year’s fair main show ring features a schedule of 139 different judged horse contests from Western-style riding to showing miniature mares. “It is a horse show,” said board member Sandy Shaw of Highland Heights. “On Monday night we do have a championship horse show that starts at 6 p.m.” Shaw said she has been going to the fair for 61 years where five generations of her family have brought horses to the fair since her grandfather Reed Shaw started showing in 1940. “My dad and grandfather, they always showed bred horses,” she said. Shaw’s great nieces and nephews joined the family tradition last year in by competing in Western-style horse riding shows. “This is what the family does,” she said. Labor Day weekend is always fair time, Shaw said. “A lot of people think of it as just the Alexandria fair, but it is our county fair,” she said. Surrounding the fairgrounds’ main show ring will be a carnival
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second challenge by the Kentucky High School Rodeo Association. The mechanical beast rolls and bucks like a 1,200-pound bull. Campbell County High School students Cierra Rae and Colten Ackerson, both rodeo competitors, will represent the association at the mechanical bull ride. A new Cowboy Mounted Shooting Association show at 7:15 p.m. Thursday will send a rider firing two .45 caliber single action revolvers load-
Fair festivities include: Thursday, Sept. 3: » 3:30 p.m.: Fair gates and exhibit hall open. » 6 p.m.: 4-H poultry show. » 7:15 p.m.: Cowboy mounted shooting contest. Friday, Sept. 4: » 3:30 p.m.: Fair gates open. » 4-5 p.m.: Market steers weighed. » 5 p.m.: Hat contest. » 6 p.m.: 4-H/FFA beef cattle show. » 7 p.m.: Miss Teen Alexandria Fair pageant. » 7 p.m: Open beef cattle show. » 7:30 p.m.: Horse show. Saturday, Sept. 5: » 7 a.m.: Fair gates open. » 9-1 p.m.: Livestock shows (4-H/FFA Hog Show at 9 a.m., 4-H/FFA Goat Show at 11 a.m., 4-H/FFA Sheep and Market Lamb Show at noon, Open Sheep Show at 1 p.m. » 1 p.m.: Horse show. » 4 p.m.: Hula Hoop contest. » 5 p.m.: Tian Academy of Asian Martial Arts show. » 7:30 p.m.: Horse show. » 8 p.m.: Kait & The California Kings perform live music. Sunday, Sept. 6: » 10 a.m.: Fair gates open. » Noon: Horse show. » 1:30 p.m. Princess Alexandria Fair Pageant » 2:30 p.m. Miss Pre-Teen Alexandria Fair Pageant » 3:30 p.m. Alexandria Fair Little Miss & Mister Pageant. » 5:30 p.m. 4-H awards and exhibit hall grand champion awards. » 6 p.m. The Sugarfoot Cloggers. » 7:30 p.m. Horse show. » 8 p.m. River Valley Sound performs live music. Monday, Sept. 7 » 7 a.m.: Fair gates open. » 8 a.m.-noon: Home Depot Children’s Workshop. » 10 a.m. chicken rodeo with greased pig contest immediately afterward. » 11 a.m. Open dairy and meat goat show. » Noon: Campbell County 4-H Horse Show. » 12:30 p.m.: Cornhole tournament. » 2:30 p.m.: Dog and puppy show. » 3:30 p.m.: Country Kids Pageant . » 6 p.m.: Championship horse show.
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School counselor stays at work amidst cancer fight Chris Mayhew
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COLD SPRING — Campbell County Schools counselor Amy Beal continues to work as she battles a third cancer diagnosis. Beal, 45, had her leg amputated when she was 12 years old because of cancer. Surgery to remove breast and lung cancer this summer has Beal seeking aggressive treatment outside her insurance network at MD Anderson Cancer Center in Texas. Beal already survived breast cancer when she was 42. Beal said her family has started the “Amy-3 Cancer-0 Donate To Keep Amy Undefeated” Crow-
Amy Beal’s friends are raising money to fund expenses so Amy can go to the Breast Cancer Center at MD Anderson, an integrated patient care facility. The expenses will cover: travel from Cincinnati to Houston, a week-long consultation, diagnostic testing and pathology procedures, ongoing treatment – none of which is covered by her insurance provider. To support Amy, visit http://bit.ly/AmyBeal
drise.com page to pay for outof-network costs to travel to
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MD Anderson by January or February. After spending a month at home recovering from surgery in Monfort Heights, Ohio, over the summer, Beal said she’s glad to be at work. Keeping busy is important, she said. “Feeling sorry for myself is just not going to work,” Beal said. Growing up next door to her grandmother taught her about life, she said. “She lived through the Depression and two world wars,” Beal said. “We just don’t feel sorry for ourselves in my family.” See CANCER, Page 2A
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Cline Elementary School counselor Amy Beal said she uses a game Chutes and Ladders to teach social skills lessons, problem solving and peer encouragement. Second-grade students Julia Hagen and Grace Heidelberg, both of Cold Spring, and fifth-grade student Evan Tewes, of Alexandria, practice taking turns.
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