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August 12-17, 2013

33. Future stars’ past grandstand performances

Page: 8. Monday — Demolition Derby 10. Tuesday — Dwight Yoakam 16. Wednesday — The Guess Who 20. Thursday — Hunter Hayes 24. Friday — Steven Curtis Chapman 30. Saturday — Roar and Rumble

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39. A 40-foot-high roller coaster now highlights fair’s carnival section 42. Camel Safari’s camel rides make their fair debut 44. Jake’s Western Grill opening first fair food booth 48. At long last, the Lynden Dutch Bakery will have a fair booth 50. Hilltop Restaurant’s “Hilltopper” using Rotary Building space this year 52. “Dairy Women 2” providing MooWiches at permanent second location 54. A look at fair food vendors and the sanitation mandates placed on them 56. Learn about veterinarians’ process of evaluating fair animals before display 58. Fair Foundation introduces new Hospitality Corral for donors 60. A longtime fairgoer shares his look into the past

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Demolition Derby

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More new features for demo derby Keeping things lively, 2013 demolition derby will add small truck derby, limo wagon rides

A new limo wagon will be brought in this year to provide rides for fair visitors around derby time on Monday, Aug. 12. (Courtesy photo/Shane Van Dalen)

Since he became president of the Whatcom Demo Derby Club three years ago, Lynden Christian High School alumnus Mike Scholten has had a focus on his mind. He’s wanted to bring new features to the demolition derby at the Northwest Washington Fair.

In 2012, Scholten introduced a “1980s and newer” class division to the derby. Now in 2013, Scholten has some more features to add.

This year, there will be a small truck derby in addition to the big truck derby. Scholten said it’s something he has wanted to add since last year’s show.

In an interesting twist, there will also be a limo wagon brought in to provide rides for fair visitors before the derby’s afternoon and evening shows on Monday, Aug. 12. The times are 1

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The total purse for this year’s demolition derby is $15,500, with some non-cash awards being given out as well. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) p.m. and 7 p.m.

“We just built it, actually, and we’re excited to be able to take people on it,” Scholten said of the limo wagon. “It’s great because it provides people with an experience they’ve never really had before.”

The Whatcom Demo Derby Club was approached earlier this year about the possibility of purchasing the limo wagon and after some thought and discussion, the decision was made to do it. However, the club chose to make it a ride feature instead of a demolition vehicle.

Club member Ben Lagerway went on to rebuild the limo, needing only

eight days to complete the task.

So overall, the derby will feature small pickups, large pickups, 1980s and newer cars, an old iron class (before 1980) and a small car class. The small car class, Scholten said, will feature cars such as Hondas and Nissans.

Although Scholten is entering his third year as club president, he’s been actively involved in the demo derby himself since 2002. The preparation for the event, he said, gives him mixed feelings.

“It’s exciting, but I’m definitely a little nervous too,” Scholten said with a laugh. “If it flops or anything like that, it’s my fault. I’m looking forward to it

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Dwight Yoakam brings ‘hillbilly music’ to Tuesday night New album title track ‘3 Pears’ takes inspiration from Beatles documentary

Country musician Dwight Yoakam will tout his genre-bending musical stylings as Tuesday night’s headliner in the grandstand. (Courtesy photo/Dwight Yoakam mySpace page)

For fans of country music over the past 30 years, Kentucky native Dwight Yoakam has been a staple.

Yoakam’s debut album, “Guitars, Cadillacs, Etc., Etc.,” was a megahit when it dropped in 1986, including hits such as “Honky Tonk Man” and “Guitars, Cadillacs.” Yoakam became a leader in the New Traditionalist movement, making it quite difficult to lump his music into any single genre.

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Yoakam: 30 singles have graced Billboard charts Continued from page 10

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Yoakam has 12 gold albums and nine platinum or multi-platinum albums to his name, including “This Time,” which went triple platinum. Five of these topped the Billboard Country Albums charts, and 14 found their way into the top 10. More than 30 singles have hit the Billboard charts over the years, including “Honky Tonk Man,” “Please Please Baby,” “Little Ways,” “I Sang Dixie,” “It Only Hurts When I Cry,” “Fast as You” and “Thousand Miles from Nowhere.” He has won two Grammys and been nominated for 21.

His latest album, “3 Pears,” incorporates a variety of influences into a cohesive whole. “It blends Yoakam’s respect for his musical predecessors with the collaborative assistance of modern singer/songwriter Beck, who co-produced two tracks, and current rocker Kid Rock, who co-wrote the hooky opener, “Take Hold Of My Hand.” But most importantly, ‘3 Pears’ builds on his trademark edginess with a notable,

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“The music just kind of dropped in, in that way,” Yoakam said. “Music is a bit of a mystery, like all emotions are. And I think maybe it was something I needed to express and to share with the world at large, something positive when all of us are kind of carrying around this collective emotional weight.”

Yoakam served as a producer on “3 Pears,” an album that is as honest as it is emotional. The album’s title track was inspired by the Martin Scorsese-directed film biography “George Harrison: Living in the Material World.”

“I got to thinking about innocence and happiness,“ Yoakam said. “There’s a certain nonsensical element to the song, but it was through that that I turned a corner. It allowed me to express some true, deeper feeling.”

Released in 2012, “3 Pears” was Yoakam’s highest-ever debut on the charts.

He hit number one on the Americana chart and broke his own personal records on the Billboard 200 and Billboard Country Albums charts. The album was named among 2012’s best by NPR, Rolling Stone, American Songwriter, EnSee Yoakam on page 14

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Yoakam: Also well known for acting chops Continued from page 13

Yoakam’s 2012 album ‘3 Pears’ (cover artwork above) is his first new album in seven years. It delivered the highest chart debut of his career, hitting number one on Americana. (Courtesy photos/DwightYoakam.com)

tertainment Weekly, Village Voice and Rhapsody. By year’s end, “3 Pears” had appeared on more music critics’ bestof-the-year lists than any other artist in country music. Yoakam has sold more than 25 million total albums to date throughout his career, with ‘3 Pears’ marking his latest resounding success.

Fairgoers won’t just be seeing a talented and seasoned country-music veteran in Yoakam, though. He has also proven to be a very skilled actor, beginning with a breakout role in the acclaimed 1996 drama “Sling Blade.”

Yoakam played Doyle Hargraves, a harddrinking abuser at odds with Billy Bob Thornton’s Karl Childers. The film went on to win the Academy Award for best adapted screenplay and numerous other accolades on the movie awards circuit.

Yoakam is also well known for his role as the menacing burglar Raoul in David Fincher’s “Panic Room” and as Sheriff Belmont in “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada.” He played a supporting roles in both Jason Stathamstarring “Crank” films and is currently filming a television miniseries called “To Appomattox,” in which he will play Union general George Meade.

Today, however, Yoakam may be best known as a live performer of the country music he loves. The Louisville Courier Journal said of a Kentucky State Fair performance, “In his best moments, Dwight Yoakam ranks with the scant handful of country singers (or, more accurately, singers in any genre, from opera to blues) who can legitimately be called geniuses.”

This live prowess has put Yoakam high atop the list of desired performers at events all over the country. He is the most frequent guest to appear on “The Tonight Show” in the program’s long history.

Throughout his 30-year music career, Yoakam has seen success only dreamed of by most in the industry. He expertly mixes genres to great effect, drawing influence from legends such as Elvis Presley, Merle Haggard and Buck Owens to form his very own signature style of “hillbilly music,” as he calls it.

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Wednesday

The Guess Who

August 14

The Guess Who to rock Lynden

The Guess Who on tour in 2008 consisted of, from left, Randy Bachman, Jim Kale, Derek Sharp, Laurie MacKenzie and Garry Peterson. Bachman is not a member anymore. (Courtesy photo/Wikipedia)

Canadian band had its big hits with Randy Bachman in 1970s with several reunion tours since then The Guess Who’s date on the Northwest Washington Fair grandstand stage is Wednesday, Aug. 14.

Yep, that’s the band Randy Bachman once played in.

And not just up to the 1970s. The former Lyndenite, who famously settled on H Street Road during his stardom with his own group Bachman Turner Overdrive, also returned to The Guess Who lineup in 1999 to 2003 for live performances across Canada.

Randy was on stage with The Guess Who in the Molson Canadian Rocks for

Toronto SARS benefit concert in July 2003 that was the largest outdoor ticketed event in Canadian history.

Not that the erstwhile hometown hero will be in Lynden — he lives in the Canadian Gulf Islands a few miles to the west — but you could say his spirit hovers about the band of five homegrown boys that came together in Winnipeg, Manitoba, in the 1960s.

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They scored their first hit with a rendition of “Shakin’ All Over” in 1965. It topped charts in Canada and reached #22 in the U.S. Along the way, Quality Records credited the single only to “Guess Who?” apparently hoping to bump up curiosity about this new act. By the time it became clear who was performing, disc jockeys were used to saying The Guess Who and the band was forced to rename themselves.

Shortly after, Ashley and Allan left and Burton Cummings (keyboards/vocal), also of Winnipeg, came on. The group expanded its horizons by moving to Regina, Saskatchewan in 1966 and going on a United Kingdom trip in 1967. Various singles made top-40 in Canada, but a bigger break was getting on the CBC “Let’s Go” music show as house band. There, producer/executive Jack Richardson was an enthusiastic believer in their potential, enough to mortgage his house to finance The Guess Who’s next batch of recordings.

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Breakthrough came with the ballad “These Eyes.” Released in January 1969, it became The Guess Who’s first Top 10 U.S. hit, selling over 1 million copies.

By the beginning of the 1970s, the band had moved to an edgier hard-rock sound with the album “American Woman,” which contained both the title song and “No Sugar Tonight.” With “American Woman,” The Guess Who became the first Canadian band to have a No. 1 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100.

The song arose out of a live jam at a curling rink concert in Ontario, band members said later. Improvising between two sets to liven up the crowd, lead Burton Cummings and company came up with “American woman, gonna mess your mind.” They liked what they had played and noticed a kid with a cassette recorder making a bootleg copy and asked him for the tape. The subsequent studio recording features the original almost completely unchanged; only a few lines were added.

The song’s lyrics were a matter of some debate, often interpreted as an attack on U.S. politics, especially the Vietnam War draft. Bassist Kale, the song’s coauthor, explained his take on the words this way: “The popular misconception was that it was a chauvinistic tune, which

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A lot of people called it anti-American, but it wasn’t really. We weren’t anti-anything.

John Lennon once said that the meanings of all songs come after they are recorded.

Someone else has to interpret them.”

Personnel changes continued. After a concert in New York City in May 1970, Bachman left The Guess Who. His conversion to Mormonism had led to differences with Cummings. Bachman was a few years away from his blockbusters “Takin’ Care of Business” and “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” with Bachman Turner Overdrive.

With new members Kurt Winter and Greg Leskiw, both of Winnipeg, The Guess Who continued logging additional hit singles such as “Hand Me Down World,” “Share the Land,” “Hang on to Your Life” and “Rain Dance.”

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Cummings, Wallace and Winter wrote the Guess Who’s last big hit, “Clap For The Wolfman,” which reached #4 in Canada and #6 in the U.S. It was an homage to disc jockey Wolfman Jack.

With Cummings, like Bachman, departing to pursue his own success, the Guess Who broke up in October 1975.

There were reunitings.

A “Guess Who’s Back” album release in both Canada and the U.S. in 1978-79 was a commercial flop.

On Aug. 8, 1999, the group reunited once again with the line-up of Cummings, Bachman, Donnie McDougall, Kale and Peterson. This particular group consisted of ex-band members who had never actually all played in The Guess Who at the same time before; the group convened in response to a personal request from the Premier of Manitoba to appear at the closing ceremonies of the Pan American Games at Winnipeg Stadium.

The one-time reunion led to a crossCanada and U.S. tour for the band beginning in 2000, although health problems precluded Kale’s involvement. Bill Wallace, who was Kale’s replacement in 1972, was brought in as his replacement once again, and this line-up of the band played

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Founding member Garry Peterson still plays the drums for The Guess Who. (Courtesy photo/TheGuessWhoCafe.com)

and toured regularly through 2003. A live album and DVD release followed the 2000 tour.

As of 2004, Bachman, Cummings, McDougall and Wallace ended their association with the band. Under the leadership of original founding members Jim Kale and Garry Peterson, who lawfully own the trademark The Guess Who, the band then resumed a touring schedule of around 60 dates a year.

The Guess Who today consists of originals Jim Kale and Garry Peterson, plus Laurie MacKenzie (guitars), Derek

Sharp (vocals, guitars) and Leonard Shaw (keyboards).

In late July 2013 the band did concerts in West Virginia, Georgia and New York.

The day after the Northwest Washington Fair, The Guess Who performs in Chehalis at the Southwest Washington Fair — and that happens to be a date that Randy Bachman is supposed to be in Calgary for an Alberta Flood Aid benefit concert.

So so don’t expect a fresh reunion to happen in Lynden.

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The guitar is just one of the 20 instruments played by country up-and-comer Hunter Hayes. (Courtesy photo/ Hunter Hayes)

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Rising country star Hunter Hayes can ‘do it all’ Just 21, singer-songwriter also plays 20 instruments Timing is everything. And for the Northwest Washington Fair, the timing couldn’t have been better to land rising country star Hunter Hayes.

The 2012 New Artist of the Year, as named by the Country Music Association, will play a grandstand show in Lynden at 7:30 p.m. on Thursday, Aug. 15.

The 21-year-old entertainer has wowed young fans, but also impresses followers of all ages with his versatile range of musical talents. His self-titled debut, “Hunter Hayes,” showed his prowess, as he co-wrote all the songs, coproduced the album, sings all the vocals and plays all the 20-plus instruments heard on the record. His popularity from the record earned him the right to open for a recent Taylor Swift tour.

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one of country music’s top performers for years to come,” said Jim Baron, the Northwest Washington Fair’s general manager. “We’re quite pleased he will be available after he finishes opening for Carrie Underwood on her tour.”

For Hayes, any success turns back to his craft. “With me, it’s always going to be music,” the single-minded Hayes said.

“That’s the one thing I know. That is my thing. That is my place. I make music because it’s the only way I can breathe. This is how I want to spend the rest of my life.”

His three Grammy nominations already will help keep him moving at a high rate of speed.

The barn-burning “Storm Warning” became the collection’s debut gold single. His gripping ballad “Wanted” soared to No. 1 and quickly neared double platinum status.

Lilting, groove-soaked “Somebody’s Heartbreak” has become the album’s third major hit, becoming a Top 30 hit in only two weeks and was named a “most added” song the week of its release.

The album’s textures range from the stately, thoughtful “Cry with You” to the upbeat yet philosophical “Faith to Fall Back On” or the sadly resigned “All You Ever.” Although Hunter Hayes is only 21, these are the songs of a proverbial “old

Hayes already has three Grammy nominations under his belt. (Courtesy photo/ Hunter Hayes)

soul.”

Despite his youth, he already has a lifetime of musical experience. The Louisiana native began picking up various instruments when he was only 2 years old.

At age 4 he joined his first band. He took his accordion on stage and sang “Jambalaya” with Hank Williams Jr. that year, too. At age 6, he was cast in the Robert Duvall film “The Apostle.” The actor gave Hayes his first guitar. Hunter recorded his first album when he was 9 and his

second at age 10.

“Being an only child absolutely helped,” he says of his extraordinarily youthful development. “I credit a lot to that. It gave me more time to be alone and spend more time with the art.

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Hayes spends a great deal of time in the studio that he built for himself in his family’s home. (Courtesy photo/Hunter Hayes)

they could to support me. They learned a business they knew nothing about, just so that I could make music. I was surrounded by positive energy all the time.”

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“I spent a lot of time in my little studio that I built at our house. I spent so much time there that I neglected going out or hanging out. I skipped all the parties. I skipped the prom every year because it always fell on a date when I had a gig to play.”

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“I made a promise to myself that as soon as I finished that course, I was going to write at least a song a week,” Hayes said. “In fact, that first week, I wrote a song every day. As soon as I finished that course, I was in the song-publishing office at least once a week, writing with somebody.”

“Songs About Nothing” is an independent record on which he played all the instruments himself. In his debut major-label effort, it became an example he used with Atlantic Records and producer Dann Huff that he could “do it all.”

“I was asking a major label to give me a budget to make a record by myself, with Dann Huff,” Hayes said. “Dann even took a little while to warm up to the idea.

But to his credit, and to everyone’s credit, everybody was open-minded, positive about it and optimistic. I think everybody’s mindset was, ‘Why not try it? Let’s see if it works.’”

Hayes is most in his element when playing live concert shows. (Courtesy photo/Hunter Hayes)

When “Storm Warning” appeared as the debut Hunter Hayes single, Taylor Swift chose him as her opening act.

So did Rascal Flatts, to whom Hayes gave his song “Play.”

Along the way, he also picked up a Teen Choice Award as the Male Country Artist of the Year and earned a No. 1 video with “Wanted.” He won a BMI songwriting award for “Storm Warning” and was a nominee at both the Academy of Country Music Awards and the CMT Music Awards.

When it comes to live entertainment, though, Hayes said he’s in his element most. “There’s an energy that happens live. That’s where I’m most myself,” he said. “There is nothing as honest as my live performance. That is what I live for every day. When I get on stage, that’s my home. That’s my element, and I’m not shy anymore. That’s where I’m comfortable. Getting to play live every night, that’s what I’ve always dreamed about.”

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Steven Curtis Chapman, who will take the stage at 7:30 p.m., has been cranking out heartfelt hits for three decades, making him one of the few contemporary Christian artists to carry legions of fans with him over a couple of generations.

Chapman has 16 studio-recorded albums to his name out of more than 20 albums total. Those include three Christmas albums, several collections of greatest hits, and one live record. All of that has translated into over 10 million total albums sold. Additionally, two were certified platinum and seven gold.

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As if that weren’t enough, Chapman’s last Dove Artist of the Year came as recently as 2009, showing just how much staying power he has in his genre.

Chapman, a Kentucky native born in 1962, initially foresaw a career in medicine before dropping out of college and moving to Nashville to pursue music. His talent for songwriting eventually landed him some prominent credits with the likes of The Imperials. A subsequent songwriting contract continued to brighten his star until he released “First Hand,” which he followed up in 1988 with his second album, “Real Life Conversations,” earning him four hits including the No. 1 song “His Eyes.”

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Chapman: ‘Beauty Will Rise’ deals intimately with heartache Continued from page 25 of Life” solidified his place in the world of contemporary Christian music.

Over the years, Chapman and his wife Mary Beth have become prominent adoption advocates, founding the ShowHope charity to promote orphan care and awareness both through actual international care work and adoption aid grants to facilitate international adoptions into families in the United States.

One of Show Hope’s biggest projects, a medical care center in China, was finished in 2009.

The Chapmans have three biological children and also adopted three girls from China. However, the youngest, 5-year-old Maria Sue Chunxi, was killed in a tragic accident outside the family home in 2008. The loss inspired the Chapmans to name the medical center Maria’s Big House of Hope. It now provides holistic care to orphans with special needs.

Maria’s death also inspired Steven See Chapman on page 28

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Chapman: New ‘Deep Roots’ album carries traditional sound Continued from page 26 Curtis to release an album called “Beauty Will Rise,” which deals intimately with heartache through such songs as “Heaven is the Face,” “Questions,” “Just Have To Wait” and “Faithful.”

“It is weird for me to even call this a record because it is just my personal psalms from this journey that we have been on,” Chapman said in later interviews. “After we lost Maria, I did not know if I would ever write any more songs or if I would ever sing again. The last thing I wanted to do is turn any of this into a song. Then you realize ‘God, this is what has happened to us and now what would you have me to do with it?’

Slowly songs began to just come out as ways for me to try to process what I was thinking and feeling and what my family and I were walking through.”

Chapman acknowledges the obvious when he says he wishes he never had to write those songs. However, it has helped him to know that they could be helpful to others.

“If there is comfort to be given to others, then that is going to make some

sense out of this,” Chapman said. “Part of what makes this survivable is that we can see God using it for good in the lives of other people. Obviously there is a part of me that would have never chosen to write a song called ‘Just Have To Wait’ or ‘Heaven is the Face’ or any of those, but the decision to do it was not really a decision to write them, it was a decision to share them with people.”

Personal inspiration lies behind much of Chapman’s other music as well as he shared in a recent interview.

“I’m a grandpa,” he said, referring to his eldest daughter Emily’s little girl.

“We have our grandbaby and it is absolutely amazing. I’m sure that’s where a lot of the inspiration is coming from for some of the new songs and new music.

It’s new life and new beginnings. It’s the season for a lot of new beginnings.”

Chapman’s love of new beginnings is perhaps the source for his having produced several albums of Christmas music. His most recent, “Joy,” features six new songs and seven classic Christmas songs.

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his “Deep Roots” album through a partnership with Cracker Barrel. It’s a collection of traditional hymns and previous hits infused with a dose of acoustic bluegrass instrumentals.

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Big names coming to Lynden 2013 Roar and Rumble will feature a pair of nationally known motorcross riders

Supercross will be a very prominent part of WHR Motorsports’ Roar and Rumble at this year’s fair. The event will include riders such as Nick Dunn and Ted Culbertson, both of whom have been featured on ESPN’s X-Games competitions. Culbertson will ride a dirt bike at the fair rather than his usual snowmobile. (Courtesy photo/WHR Motorsports)

High-flying antics and trucks bashing into one another, providing sounds that may be heard all the way to Skagit County.

That’s what will be displayed on Saturday, Aug. 17, as WHR Motorsports brings its Roar and Rumble back to the fairgrounds.

Scheduled to start at 7:30 p.m., Roar and Rumble offers fans a variety of different events to watch all in one evening. Lee Collins, of WHR, said this year’s show will be similar to previous years, with a couple of changes.

“Well, for one, we’re going to have some different monster trucks,” Collins said. “We have Big Foot returning, which is our biggest one, but we have a brandnew one coming in and another one that had a complete makeover. That truck has a new body and a completely different graphic design.”

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crowned as the champion.

Another fan favorite event returning to the 2013 Northwest Washington Fair is freestyle motocross. Daredevils will be twisting their bodies on their motorbikes over 75-foot gaps and performing stunts as high as 40 feet in the air.

One motocross rider who figures to put on quite a show is Nick Dunn. The 5-10, 140-pounder from California, a pro since 2006, is part of the world-famous Metal Mulisha. Dunn has been featured on the Dew Tour, ESPN’s summer X-Games and several different Red Bull tours.

“He’s one of the top riders in the world and he does some pretty amazing stuff,” Collins said. “He does a lot of unique tricks while he’s in the air and he has some experience. He’s been riding for a while now, but he’s really made a name for himself over the last few years.”

Another motocross performer ready to fly at Roar and Rumble is Ted Culbertson. The Helena, Mont., native has been on ESPN’s winter X-Games over the last few years as a snowmobiler, but is set to hop on a bike with Dunn and the rest of the riders.

With so many guys ready to take center stage, Collins said the excitement for Roar and Rumble is high, as always.

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Roar: Fans in Lynden sit close to the action Continued from page 31

The WHR Motorsports team annually puts on about 35 events across the United States. (Courtesy photo/WHR Motorsports)

The WHR team travels to states across the country and puts on about 35 events throughout the year. There’s something special about returning to the Lynden fair, though.

“It’s really well received and the audience gets really behind it,” Collins said of the local grandstand crowd. “For a smaller community, there’s a lot of participation and everyone is always really friendly. It’s a good stop for us and we always enjoy coming back.

“Fans at most shows are hundreds of feet away, but in Lynden it’s more like a few feet. Our riders like the energy (spectators) bring and they feed off of that during our show. That’s the big difference between Lynden’s venue and a big stadium.”

Tickets for Roar and Rumble are still available to the public. Reserved seating for adults is $23, while reserved seating for youth ages 4-12 is $12. Children 3 and under are admitted free of charge as long as they are seated on an adult’s lap.

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Lynden grandstand is often home to future stars Hayes may join the likes of Paisley, Little Big Town in line of future hit-makers “Aug. 16 will feature Brad Paisley, a rising star in country music.

Paisley, a West Virginia native, learned guitar from his grandfather, who had a soft spot for country.

His grandfather even gave him his first guitar. While Paisley was still a teen, his grandfather contracted pancreatic cancer but lived long enough to see the young star open for The Judds.

“I think he left this world knowing he had started something good for me,” Paisley said.

So reads the extent of the Lynden Tribune news coverage about Brad Paisley leading up to his appearance at the 2001 Northwest Washington Fair.

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Future Stars: Paisley, Little Big Town both struck it big in years following Lynden shows Continued from page 33 Securing Paisley would have been a lot harder, or impossible just a year or two later, as he churned out mega-hit after megahit, becoming one of the most popular artists of the decade. But before his day in the sun, Brad Paisley spent an evening under the spotlight at the Lynden fairgrounds.

It’s generally understood by regional fairgoers that big-name artists only end up on a local stage after their star has dimmed just a little bit. After all, there is still a market for artists like Kenny Rogers and Charlie Daniels.

But what about those artists who aren’t yet big? After all, “rising star” is sometimes code for “might not make it.”

Not so with Paisley, who sang at the fair in the shadow of fellow country singers Collin Raye and Clay Walker.

The Northwest Washington Fair can be an exciting place to take in a concert.

Not just for the decades-old classic tunes from older stars. Not even for the possibility that a present-day Garth Brooks will again grace us with a surprise appearance.

No the real excitement is looking at a new act and wondering if in a few years the price to attend an event with this artist might double.

Paisley isn’t the only act to go big after coming to Lynden. In 2008, Lynden hosted the likes of Little Big Town, a band that is now one of the hottest acts out of Nashville.

LBT was a unique act when it burst onto the scene — four singers sharing lead vocals long before Lady Antebellum came around.

In an interview with the Lynden Tribune that year, Little Big Town band member Phillip Sweet noted that the group was getting ready to begin a tour with established superstar Carrie Underwood.

Just think, it wouldn’t have been crazy to have seen someone like Taylor Swift in

Whatcom County just a few short years ago. Now, not so much.

At what point could we also look with expectation at the current lineup and start making predictions about their future success?

The name that comes most quickly to mind is Hunter Hayes.

It’s worth observing that Hayes already has several number 1 singles and he’s only 21, two years younger than Swift.

Yes, there really is something for everyone at the Northwest Washington Fair, whether it is watching old acts resurrect a durable classic or someone with their feet barely wet in the music industry — the act that only has one or two songs that anyone knows.

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New 40-foot-high roller coaster to highlight carnival section

The Grand Prix Coaster, seen here in its construction phase, is the newest addition to the fair’s carnival lineup. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune)

Watch for a similar mix of about 40 rides again this year, plus the new biggie Expect new thrills — and fresh screams — from carnival attendees poised 40 feet high on a first-time Lynden roller coaster at this year’s Northwest Washington Fair. Oh, and they’ll be quite a few twists and turns to go along with that height when riders make their way back down.

In an effort to expand the carnival section of the fair, Oregon-based Davis Amusement is placing a large ride, The Grand Prix Coaster, on the fairgrounds, giving the ride its first spin during the Aug. 12-17, 2013 fair.

Mike Davis, president of Davis Amusement, said he’s been looking for a quality coaster to place in Lynden for years.

“We feel the Lynden fair is due for something like that,” he said. “A lot of larger fairs have larger coasters and we wanted to bring that to Lynden too. It

takes some time to secure the right one.

“It has to be the right size and in the right shape and do the right things. The plan is for that ride to be exclusive to the Lynden fair.”

After taking days to construct, don’t expect to see the coaster travel around to other fairs. Instead, it will stay as an attraction for future Northwest Washington fairs.

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Carnival: Most rides take 10 hours to set up Continued from page 39 nival,” said fair manager Jim Baron. “That is why we work with the Davis family as they work very hard to continue to bring new and better rides to the fair. Of course, it is a challenge, because whereas people like new, they always have their favorite traditional rides.”

The new ride is “big and fast with big dips and quick turns.” The tobogganstyle coaster cars allow two people to fit together in vehicles modeled after vintage Ferraris.

But your regular $30 carnival wristband won’t work for this thrill-giving attraction, as this ride takes only tickets.

Davis said that especially in the ride’s first year he wants everyone to have a chance on the ride without having to stand in long lines behind all-day riders who have already “ridden it 21 times and are kind of a hindrance to the people that want to come and ride just that.”

The Grand Prix coaster will be located in the traditional carnival ride area, although Davis will do some rearranging of the mix to accommodate the new ride’s size.

In the past the company has duplicated a ride in the kiddie carnival and the larger carnival, but they may need to drop a duplicate to make room for The Grand Prix. Other options may simply be moving rides around, such as the Wacky Worm coaster that can easily bump to the kiddie area.

As the carnival section continues to grow, it “gets pretty tight and crowded in there,” Davis said, and he is in an ongoing discussion with Baron about expanding the space, even within the limited total footprint the fair operates in.

But, for now, the carnival section remains the same size with about 40 machines, not counting the extra booths,

Aside from the new coaster, the ride lineup will be very similar to that of previous years, with about 40 attractions to choose from. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) ready for the Northwest Washington Fair.

“We try to bring a mix,” Davis said.

“We want a particular number for the little guys and so many family rides. We also bring the ones for the thrill-seekers.”

That mix leaves some space for ride rotation, but also requires some of the traditional standby attractions. “The carousel, the giant Ferris wheel, probably now this new roller coaster, bumper cars, those things have to come back,” Davis said. “The public would be disappointed if they weren’t there.”

There are also rides that may show up every once in a while, chiefly so Davis Amusement isn’t bringing the same exact thing every year. Still, though, it is about turnover and revenue. The company reviews ridership every year and if a machine isn’t attracting enough attention — pulling its weight, as Davis said — then it gets pulled out for another.

Davis said the above-mentioned “traditional rides,” along with the giant slide and Tilt-a-Whirl prove the most popular.

“Families come and ride them again and again as opposed to another ride that plays out after a couple of years,” he said.

While the large roller coaster has been on site since July, the other machines start arriving well before the August fair, although some trickle in with just hours to spare. “When we come to Lynden, all of the focus is on Lynden,” Davis said. “We may play 40 or 50 or 60 dates in a year, but in the larger attendance fairs like Lynden, we backburner everything to concentrate on Lynden.”

If a given ride isn’t scheduled at another fair, it gets sent as soon as possible to Lynden for set-up, with most rides taking between one and 10 hours to put together. “It is in our interest to get it up there and get it up early, cleaned up and ready to go,” Davis said.

In the case of the new roller coaster especially, there will also be plenty of patrons eager for the fresh thrill.

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Camel rides coming to this year’s fair Bellingham-based Camel Safari bringing four, possibly six camels for public to ride, observe

Animals may be a staple of the Northwest Washington Fair, but this year will feature a decidedly more exotic creature than visitors have seen in recent years.

Bellingham’s Camel Safari will bring its premier riding experience to the fair with two riding camels and several others in tow. Two dromedary (one-hump) riding camels will be at the fair, as well as one and possibly two Bactrians (twohump).

“We actually just got in two baby bottle-fed dromedary camels, two little females,” Camel Safari’s Joan Gig said.

“It’s possible that we may bring one or two of those as well.”

In total, Camel Safari will likely have four camels on hand at the fair, with the possibility of six. Camel rides will cost $7 per rider.

Camel rides won’t be the only activity offered by Camel Safari, however.

“Some education spots throughout the day, each day of the fair,” Gig said. “Those are

Camel Safari will be bringing both Bactrian (above) and dromedary (below left) camels to the fair. (Courtesy photos/Camel Safari) free. They’ll be about 15 to 20 minutes. People can just come by and we’ll give them some camel facts and people can interact with them a bit. I think the spots that we chose with the fair, the education spots, will be 10 a.m., 1 p.m., 4 p.m. and 7 p.m.”

Camel Safari will be set up near the draft horse barn.

Camel Safari is headquartered in Bellingham at Beldar Haven Farm, a fully operational organic farm featuring many animals in addition to camels.

Guy Seeklus is the owner of the farm and the owner and president of Camel Safari.

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Feeding the fair Jake’s Western Grill has served backstage food and will open a food booth for the first time Jake’s Western Grill will be doing double duty during the 2013 Northwest Washington Fair, if you count owner Brian Poag’s Lynden Towne Plaza restaurant and his new fair food booth.

The restaurant’s catering side has been serving as the backstage caterer at the fair for the last six years, a role that they will forgoe this year. But along with catering for entertainers in the past and running the Lynden restaurant, Poag will also experiment this year with a food booth in the Expo Building.

“This is our first go-around and we are absolutely still trying to figure it out,” Poag said a month before the fair was to start.

The first big piece of the puzzle — a 600-pound capacity smoker — certainly helps with the logistics. Already on site for the event, the smoker will ensure the meat-centric booth has plenty to offer.

“We will be able to cook a lot of barbecue on site and serve it right out of the booth. That is pretty easy for us,” Poag said. “The staffing part of it will be a challenge.”

Finding the right menu for a new booth at the fair also proves a tricky endeavor. “We want to do things that are our popular items, but we also have to keep in mind that the fair wants a variety of different foods,” he said. “You can’t have every-

Jake’s pulled pork sandwiches are a Lynden staple. (Courtesy photo/Jake’s Western Grill) body doing corndogs and burgers. You’ve got to have some diversity.”

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Jake’s: Testing out two-site concept with fair presence Continued from page 44 portion sizes that fairgoers will embrace.

He’s even toying with the idea of smoking baby back ribs in the evening. “If I can portion that correctly, I might consider doing something like that.”

Apart from the obvious for-profit mentality of Jake’s, Poag said bringing his restaurant to the fair will help with marketing and visibility and give him a chance to test out the two-site concept.

“I’m going to focus that entire week at this booth and look at it as a second location,” he said. “We can learn a lot about ourselves that week, what we execute well and what we need to work on.”

With a long-term goal of opening a permanent second site, he’ll get a oneweek trial run.

While the restaurant staff expands to handle two locations the week of the fair, Jake’s catering side will get a break from the responsibilities of serving the needs of the entertainers and their crews, along with a variety of other on-site catering requests from corporate events. Poag said the staff’s experience in the past with the fair and other countywide catering jobs meant adding a third element wouldn’t have been too strenous, but he stepped aside to focus on the booth.

But that doesn’t mean catering doesn’t come without challenges. Especially when dealing with a variety of entertainers.

Deep fried pickles are a popular Jake’s Western Grill appetizer. (Courtesy photo/Jake’s Western Grill)

“I like to be proactive with the entertainers,” he said about past events. “I let them know up front that this is what I was thinking for dinner or lunch and 99 percent of the time they say that sounds fantastic and they are looking forward to the event. As long as you are proactive, typically there’s not a problem.”

The unexpected happens, though.

“There’s always a curveball, or 10, in there

every year,” Poag said. “The biggest key to backstage entertainment is being open to change and being adaptable. The timing can change, the menu items can change at the last minute, but that is just part of being in the catering business.” It may end up being part of the fair food booth business too.

— Tim Newcomb

Look for crowds at these two animal hot-spots Two special efforts have become especially popular with animal watchers at the Northwest Washington Fair in recent years.

Small Animal Experience Weeks ahead, Lacey VanderVeen was already feeding eight little calves that could be in the Cargill Nutrena Small Animal Experience exhibit of the Aug. 12-17 fair.

With luck, four dairy breeds will be represented: Holstein, Guernsey, Jersey and Brown Swiss.

This is the fifth year of the small animal project of the Barn Buddies 4-H Club, of which Lacey is a leader.

Three sows have been bred to farrow, or give birth to a litter of piglets, during fair week. The two “friendliest” will

win the honor of actually going to the fair, VanderVeen said.

In an expanded area of the Jansen livestock barn this year will also be ducks, chickens, rabbits, kittens, ponies, miniature horses and miniature goats. Chicks will be hatching in an incubator.

It is all extremely popular with small children and their families.

To encourage good sanitation, all visitors must pass by a hand washing station upon leaving Small Animal Experience.

Dairy Maternity Ward The large third-generation dairy farm of the DeJong family of Lynden is accustomed to seeing three to five calves born per day, said Jon DeJong.

During fair week, cows due to calve are just brought to the Northwest Washington Fair instead — losing their privacy for the sake of onlookers.

At least seven calves, including a set of twins, were born in the provided double pen last year.

After a birth, during the next night the mother and newborn are trucked back to the Abbott Road farm and a new freshening cow is brought in, DeJong said. “We’re there just to put on the display for the people,” he said.

And for those whose timing through the fair dairy barn isn’t perfect, a videotape of a live birth back at Eaglemill farm plays continuously.

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An overdue debut Lynden Dutch Bakery will have desserts galore in booth near grandstand

Known around Whatcom County for its delectable treats, the Lynden Dutch Bakery has been satisfying taste buds since 1907. However, the well-beloved bakery has never had a presence at the equally well-established Northwest Washington Fair.

In 2013, however, that all changes.

The Lynden Dutch Bakery will make its debut at the fairgrounds with a location just south of the grandstand. It’s something owner Steve Copeman is thrilled about.

“It’s a very good fair and we’re looking forward to being there this year,” Copeman said. “We will have a prime spot this year and we’re excited to show off our goods to all the people who make it out to Lynden.”

Fairgoers should also be excited about the variety of baked goods that will be available. The Lynden Dutch Bakery will have poffertje muffins, olie bollen, M&M cookies, blackberry and Dutch apple pies, and more.

Perhaps the two mouth-watering treats the bakery is best known for are the poffertjes and olie bollen. Those are Dutch delights loosely translatable as “little pancakes” and “oil balls.” The poffertjes usually come in a flattened form, but Copeman said that for the fair he’s decided to make them into muffins. The tasty treat has a butter custard icing, which is another reason people will stand in a long line to get them.

Copeman said he first started selling the muffin form at the downtown bakery in mid-June, and the response has been outstanding.

“We’ve been selling out of them every day and we have repeat customers come in letting us know how delicious they are. Word is starting to spread about them and we’re happy we can bring them to the fair.

“Our big thing is that we want to make sure we can draw people to our booth. There’s one other poffertjes spot, but it only has one grill, so people are going to be waiting in line for that. We hope to provide another option for folks be-

Lynden Dutch Bakery owner Steve Copeman whips up some olie bollen. The treat will be available at the bakery’s fair booth this year. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) cause there’s so many people there.”

Not to be outdone, the olie bollen figure to leave people licking their fingers and wanting some more as well. An olie bollen is a version of a Dutch donut that is filled with apples and raisins. It’s featured from Thanksgiving to New Years’ Day every holiday season at the Lynden Dutch Bakery, so summer is somewhat of an unaccustomed time for it. However, it shows up at Lynden’s Raspberry Festival and other special events.

“It’s a community favorite and we’ve been making them forever,” Copeman said. “People love them and similar to the poffertjes, we think people from out of the county will enjoy them as well. We don’t make them all the time – usually

for special occasions and the fair fits into that.”

Copeman is also hopeful that with the number of people coming to the fair this year, they will have yet another reason to visit the bakery at 421 Front St. if they’re ever in the area.

“This will be our first time there and a lot of the fair people don’t normally make it downtown,” Copeman said. “To be at the fair this year and have people try our different desserts is wonderful. It’s a great marketing tool and we hope it will invite people to come check us out.

“It’s also a great fair that’s put on each year. This is big for our Dutch community and we’re happy to be a part of it.”

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Hilltop brings Hilltopper into fair food mix at Rotary Building Food, cocktails to be served in airconditioned building

The Hilltop Restaurant, 5645 Guide Meridian Rd., has been a popular presence as a caterer at various events held at the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in the past. This year, the restaurant will raise that profile even more, appearing in the main August fair.

Hilltop will use the Mt. Baker Rotary Building as its base this year. In 2012, the building was also used as a restaurant.

“Last year was the first year that the Rotary Building was a place to sit down and eat, and also had a full bar service,” said Tom Kilpatrick, Hilltop owner and general manager. “We are calling our enterprise the Hilltopper Grill & Bar. We have food service with indoor air-conditioned seating and full bar service.”

The Hilltopper will offer a variety of summer-appropriate items, including a wild fish taco, “Hog Wild Wings,” a jerk chicken taco, a barbecue tri-tip sandwich and the “Wrap Artist,” a blackened chicken caesar wrap.

“Then we have full bar service with beer, wine and cocktails, and we have indoor air-conditioned comfort,” Kilpatrick said.

The air conditioning is a big deal at the fair, as the Rotary Building is the only structure on the grounds with air conditioning, and fair visitors will appreciate this greatly on hotter days.

“Not everybody wants to sit at the fair all day indoors, but take a little break indoors and it’ll be good,” Kilpatrick said.

The Rotary Building food option is organized year by year, and Kilpatrick has been planning for the fair since January.

The restaurant caters a variety of highprofile events around the county, allowing Kilpatrick and his colleagues to get a feel for what it’s like to handle something like the fair.

“We thought that for this type of event, that these menu items would be popular,” Kilpatrick said.

— Brent Lindquist

The Hilltop Restaurant (logo inset) will be serving food at the Mt. Baker Rotary Building at this year’s fair. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune)

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Former coffee stand is permanent home to second Dairy Women booth More ice cream MooWiches than ever will be made for this year’s fair The Whatcom County Dairy Women sold tasty dairy treats at their normal location last year, but many may not remember that they had an extra location as well.

That second spot was south on the fair’s main concourse, near the large barbecue stand west of the paved road. It wasn’t a very visible location, and many didn’t know the second source for MooWiches, milkshakes and ice cream even existed.

That will change this year, as the Dairy Women have a brand-new structure on the site. Anyone who remembers Rise & Shine Coffee near Washington Tractor on West Main Street will find the new fair building very familiar.

“It was there on the Jim Hale property at the corner of Evergreen and Main,” said project chairwoman Debbie Vander Veen,”and Jim Hale decided that he wanted to donate that coffee shop, and the fair took interest in that, and from there Whatcom County Dairy Women explained to the fair that they were in need of a permanent location rather than the temporary one they’ve had at the fair the past few years.”

A partnership were formed with the fair to make that happen, she said. Lynden High School students helped spearhead the project initially.

“Students from Lynden High School RISE class are the ones who put together the business plan and got the permits and everything,” Vander Veen said. “They went to the Lynden City Council, and are the ones that found investors and got it built and got the whole thing started.”

Business support was needed to continue with the project, and that came in spades.

“From there, when other community members and businesses heard about it, they wanted to participate and donated either goods or materials or labor or cash and made the whole moving of the building from one location to another possible,” Vander Veen said.

The move and setup at the fair took a lot of planning and logistics work, but the wide array of businesses involved (listed on this page) made it all possible.

“Everybody just wanted it to succeed,

Dairy Women 2 will provide fairgoers with their favorite dairy treats at a second location. (Brent Lindquist/Lynden Tribune) because the Dairy Women and the fair are both nonprofit businesses,” Vander Veen said.

The new, permanent second location, dubbed Dairy Women 2, will serve all the same items as in the past.

“We will be very efficient and very fast,” Vander Veen said. “Everyone will want to go there to try out the new building. There’s beautiful stone work on there.

It’s all been repainted. The inside has been totally finished and beautiful. We’re planning to make more MooWiches this year than ever before. This is a very beautiful location. It’s nearly in the same place, close to that same pathway, but very much more visible.”

In addition to the popular MooWiches, Dairy Women 2 will serve ice cream cones, milkshakes, the tri-berry smoothie, yogurt, milk and other general dairy items.

Vander Veen said the project could not have been completed without the generous help of a variety of local businesses.

Many of these businesses provided their services at a heavily discounted price, and others helped to make up that cost difference as well.

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Food vendors are well grilled in good sanitation County Health Department makes sure of food handlers’ permits, cards It’s a fair, and you’re there for the fun, right? And the food, and the animals and the rides ... and whatever else catches your fancy.

In the total experience of a fair, you don’t want to think much about food safety. So Tom Kunesh does it for you.

Kunesh supervises the Whatcom County Health Department’s food safety program. As such, he has an interest wherever food is served to the public. And his agency oversees how food is prepared at the Northwest Washington Fair.

With good advance work, it all works out pretty well each year, he said.

As early as February, Kunesh is communicating with the 50-60 food vendors who will be at the August fair, including the carnival area, about making sure their food service permits are in place and that their food handler cards are up to date.

Those who run a food service will describe what their booth’s menu is, how they will prepare their foods, and what their kitchen or special equipment is to do the job. Someone with the sponsoring organization who is certified by the Health Department with a food handling permit must be present in the booth at all times food is served.

The testing to get the food handlers card is online now for a second year, Kunesh said.

Food served at the Northwest Washington Fair ranges from the simple Dutch poffertjes (tiny pancakes) to full barbecued meat dinners. Salads and desserts may be brought in from an outside approved kitchen. For it all, the Health Departments makes clear the guidelines for cooking and refrigeration temperatures, sanitation and storage procedures, and more.

Here’s one consistent refrain to the food vendors: “We want clean hands in the kitchen.”

Hand washing should become second nature in eating and food handling — especially given all else that is going on at a

Extensive training and testing make food sanitation an easy task during the Northwest Washington Fair. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) fair.

“We want kids and other exhibitors to know how to protect themselves,” Kunesh said.

And here’s another commandment for illness prevention: “Don’t eat while working.”

Once all those ground rules are well understood and the training and testing

are done, enforcement on the six days of the Northwest Washington Fair goes pretty effortlessly. There may be spot visits to booths to see if there are any problems, which are usually small and easily corrected, Kunesh said.

Now go enjoy that hamburger and MooWich.

— Calvin Bratt

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Animals are fairgoers’ favorite — and they’re here Every critter admitted to the Lynden fair has been seen by a veterinarian first

Farm animals are the favorite part of most people’s experience at a fair, surveys show — and Northwest Washington Fair manager Jim Baron knows it. Maybe it’s because so few people today have direct experience with farms.

Well, you can get your fill here.

First, there’s the output of a host of 4-H clubs and active FFA chapters in Whatcom County and beyond. Kids are eager to try their hand at raising a cute critter or two and maybe win a blue ribbon to boot.

Those youth exhibitors get the “fair experience” for a week while strolling visitors can enjoy the educational posters, meticulous grooming of animals and competition of the show ring.

But even the grown-up owner of a prize Holstein cow or a Clydesdale draft horse likes to show it off at the fair, in spite of the extra work involved.

However, before all those animals entertain you, they pass under the watchful eye of veterinarians making sure that each entry is healthy and fit to be on public display.

Every animal that comes onto the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds in August gets looked over by a local veterinarian, said Dave Sauter of Kulshan Veterinary Hospital of Lynden.

The Kulshan staff has primary duty at the Lynden fair, but other veterinarians do help with the big task.

When you count up all cattle, horses, sheep, goats, hogs, dogs, cats, poultry, rabbits, llamas and even an occasional gerbil or iguana, that’s a lot of inspections for check-in.

Sauter said the weekend before the Northwest Washington Fair’s Monday opening is busy with the arrival of animals and birds at their places of residence for the week. Veterinarians are looking for any signs of contagious diseases, parasites or general unhealthy conditions.

“It’s a big production. It’s been going

Horses are just one species of animal that fairgoers can see and enjoy. (File photo/Lynden Tribune)

on for years,” he said.

Sometimes there’s a particular issue that veterinarians are on the lookout for — it was Malignant Catarrhal Fever in 2009 after an outbreak at the previous Puyallup Fair — and, if necessary, animals will be turned away, Sauter said. But that’s rare.

“By and large, animals are healthy.

A lot of work goes into preparation, into bringing a good product to the fair,” he said.

Ongoing communication with youth 4-H and FFA group leaders makes it easier to have a smooth admission of animals when the August fair does roll around.

— Calvin Bratt

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Jansen Art Fair Foundation creates exclusive space in fairgrounds Center will promote art with live demonstrations The John Deere toy pedal tractor was one of the most sought-after items auctioned off at the inaugural Fair Foundation fundraising event on May 10, 2013. (Michael Lewis/Lynden Tribune)

Donor levels start at giving $100 Air conditioning, cold beverages and a place to relax during the week of the Northwest Washington Fair — and all on the fairgrounds. That’s exactly what the Northwest Washington Fair Foundation offers its donors with a first-ever Foundation Hospitality Corral.

As the foundation — an entity separate from the fair itself — starts to pick up steam in its first full year of existence, there are some fair-week perks for those who have already donated to help support the fair. Beyond free tickets to the weeklong event, the foundation will also create a hospitality center just for the donors.

Located inside the west end of the Mt. Baker Rotary Building, next to the new The Hilltopper Bar & Grill, the Hospitality Corral will only be accessible to those who have a pass.

“We are trying to give exclusivity for those who are donors of the foundation,” said foundation president Melissa Bedlington-Kleindel. “It is a nice place to go sit and relax in one of the only airconditioned buildings on the fairgrounds.

We wanted perks for those who donated to our nonprofit organization.”

The venue will offer cold drinks and an opportunity to bring one guest.

The foundation held a kickoff event fundraiser in May for about 250 attendees.

The adult night at the fair included a behind-the-scenes look at the fair, complete with demo derby car rides, Shagren family draft horse and wagon rides, a carnival ride and a live auction and dinner. The seven-person foundation board has been able to name about 30 “founding patrons” and an additional 50 donors so far.

The goal of the foundation is “to financially support agricultural education and the enhancement and preservation of the Northwest Washington Fair.” The foundation hopes to generate enough funds for agriculture scholarships, free gate admission for disadvantaged groups and eventually an agriculture educational center and museum.

Six different donor levels are available, with varying perks. For 2013 only, donors can become “founding patrons” at tier one for $2,013. Founding patron tier two status starts at $5,000. Perks include name recognition in various locations, parking passes, fair passes and concert tickets. But all six levels — even the “proud tradition” level that starts at $100 — include admission to the Hospitality Corral.

“People can join in at any point,” Bedlington said. “You can still sign up to be a foundation donor the week of the fair and still get the perks.”

For more information on the foundation or the corral, call the fair office at 354-4111.

— Tim Newcomb

Volunteers will do their art on site for learning, entertainment opportunities

The Jansen Art Center has an array of artist disciplines represented in its stunning downtown Lynden building. A sampling of those skills will get a more public treatment during the Northwest Washington Fair.

The center has agreed to send volunteers into the art barn during the fair to create artwork on site, offering both an educational and entertainment component to the fair’s art exhibits.

Susan Marshall, Jansen Art Center executive director, said demonstrating techniques in the exhibit hall gives artists a chance to explain what they do and how they do it.

The fully volunteer nature of the cooperation means Marshall isn’t sure how many different types of art will be displayed during the fair. The artists won’t be peddling wares during the demonstrations, but visitors are free to contact them separately to inquire about their work.

Either way, Marshall says to expect a chance to learn. “The artists who are good at showing are usually good at teaching,” she said. “To be able to share that promotes what we do.”

Along with the demonstrations, the Jansen Art Center will partner with the Whatcom Art Guild to present “art certificates” to youth who enter art — generally paintings or drawings — for display at the fair.

— Tim Newcomb

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Growing up at the fair, or at least learning plenty of things there R o n P o l i n d e r, retired in Lynden, wrote this piece for the No r t h w e s t Washington Fair’s annual meeting in 2012 and read it at the fair foundation’s auction event this spring.

Often, when bragging about the Lynden fair, I will say, “I grew up at the fair!” Some hyperbole, to be sure — I really grew up just across the river. But allow me to make my case for that one glorious week in August. Where else but at the fair did I learn so much about life?

It was at the fair that I first experienced a blue ribbon. Even before I was old enough for 4-H, I remember my dad tucking a blue ribbon in his shirt pocket in the show ring between those two old cow barns, now long ago replaced. Blue was the most beautiful color. It took us a few years to discover the beauty of purple, but that came too.

Of course, this symbolizes competition, which is built into the very fabric of the fair — one wonders how many ribbons are given out in just one year.

Those ribbons reach out with lessons that we can learn. There is wholesome satisfaction in that purple if we have won well, having worked hard and competed fairly. There is also danger in purple — self-importance and pride.

There are always two ends to a class at the fair — it’s healthy if we learn how to stand on both ends, first and last. It took me too many years to win well, and lose well. But the fair helps us with those lessons, even if we are slow learners — for some of us, it can take decades.

For me, it took way too long to give thanks to God, for he is the one that chiseled out that Grand Champion cow, or, as Job says, “gave the horse its strength and clothed its neck with a flowing mane.” Those gorgeous flower baskets, those perfect vegetable boxes

Ron Polinder, age 11, receives a cup from Washington State Dairy Princess Janet Anderson for winning junior champion 4-H fitting and showing with a senior yearling heifer at the 1958 Lynden fair. (File photo/Lynden Tribune) are first the fruit from his hand.

There are other lessons we learned.

Remember when mom gave us a few dollars to spend? How long did it take for those to disappear? Were we broke by noon, or did we have some left at the end of the day? And now as parents and grandparents, do we teach our young ones how to measure, or do we over-indulge them, giving them a false notion that there is always more?

There were those teenage lessons, when the hormones were overactive.

Lots of us learned how to flirt at the fair. I suspect some of us overstepped

our bounds — I did — with “smart remarks” that really were not very smart, maybe even hurtful. One wonders how many romances were started — can’t you feel it in the air on a Friday night at the fair? Cute girls and cute guys wondering if now is the moment to hold hands for the first time? And hoping that seat on the ferris wheel squeezed us closely together.

There was work at the fair — and for months before. In part, blue and purple ribbons come from sheer work.

I suspect all of us can remember literal See Polinder on page 62

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Polinder: The fair is also about the oldtimers, who attend to visit with old friends Continued from page 60 blood, sweat and tears in preparation for fair week. Then there was getting up early for barn duty, and not only doing your own work, but helping the neighbor kid, the novice, who had so much yet to learn. No one does well at the fair, or should do well, unless they have done the work!

Often that work happened alongside strangers at least they started out — as strangers. It was at the fair that we got to know kids from the other schools, other clubs, other counties, and we learned to like them. That family across the aisle showing cows was a Lutheran family, and the one down further was a Catholic family, and those right next to us — I’m not sure they go to church.

Strangers all, who became friends. The fair taught us the gift of the stranger.

But finally, the fair is not about just the youth, or even the middle-aged. It is also about us old-timers. We go to the fair in large part just to visit — just to see people that we have not seen for a year, or maybe a decade. We run into old classmates who live out East somewhere, but are in town to visit their relatives. It is so good to see them!

Whatever dislikes we may have had toward certain folks are long forgotten.

We learn about their family, their faith, their work, their joys and sometimes their sorrows, deep sorrows. There are mostly smiles and hugs at the fair, but there can even be tears. So it was for me this past year (2012, after the death of wife Colleen). Yet, there were lots of former students ready to hug their crabby old principal.

But aren’t we thankful for this amazing week when all of this can happen? When a community comes together, celebrating our agricultural roots, but also celebrating each other?

When city folks and country folks so easily rub shoulders, when our Canadian neighbors come to our Lynden fair because “they just love it.”

There is a grace in all of this that should be named, respected and sustained. It is like God is saying: “Fair thee well.”

— Ron Polinder

These are scenes from the 1956 Northwest Washington Fair as printed in the Lynden Tribune: Kenny Syre, 11, of Lawrence, will show his Holstein calf at the fair; the office staff gets ready for the Aug. 15-18, 1956 Northwest Washington Fair. From left are: fair manager Pete Meenderinck, assistant manager Herb Eerkes and office worker Betty Top. (File photos/Lynden Tribune)

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More scenes from the 1956 fair, clockwise from top left: a calf owned by Danny VanDyk gets clipped; Fred Oltman, 78, of Lynden, had practically every vegetable imaginable in his display at the fair; Right: Fair office worker Betty Top points out the fair sign for the year; Barbara Markham, 9, pets her family’s Shetland ponies. (File photos/Lynden Tribune)

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