2019 Northwest Washington Fair Magazine

2019 Fair Magazine A Local Detailed Look At This Year’s Events, Highlights & More!

Supplement of the Lynden Tribune and Ferndale Record | Published Wednesday, August 7, 2019

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Fair Magazine Grandstand Features: August 12-17, 2019 pg. 8 Monday — Demolition Derby pg. 12 Tuesday-Wednesday — Lynden PRCA Rodeo pg. 16 Thursday — Larry the Cable Guy pg. 20 Friday — Mark Chesnutt pg. 23 Saturday — Cheap Trick

Inside Pages: pg. 26. An overview of what to expect at the 2019 fair pg. 32. What’s new? A beautiful new Farm Pavilion pg. 34. Chris Pickering is the new assistant manager pg. 39. The Arabian club is strong in the horse barn pg. 42. Three faces are new on the board of directors pg. 46. Meet 2019 Miss Lynden Rodeo Aimee Henderson pg. 48. A business booth is about reconnecting with people pg. 50. Hypnotist Jerry Harris is back this year pg. 52. If memories are made at the fair, here are some pg. 56. The Moo-Wich has earned its own fan base pg. 60. An FFA member talks about his learning curve pg. 62. Food vendor Burnt Ends brings the barbecue pg. 64. Parking lots and shuttle buses — more than ever Cover: Main Photo Courtesy of Shawna Murphy Left: Photo Courtesy of Chad Williams

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Grandstand Entertainment

Monday, August 12

Demolition Derby Demo Derby adds passenger option to main event Small truck numbers keep going up, as big cars are more scarce To drive alone or to drive with a buddy?

That’s a choice to be made now by derby drivers at the Northwest Washington Fair.

“We’re adding a bit of a twist to one of our events,” said Demolition Derby director Mike Scholten. “We’re allowing for passengers in the main one.”

So far, five teams have taken up the option. Scholten said he saw another derby track that had added the option, and he figured Lynden could try it out too.

Scholten believes the benefit of adding a passenger comes from the additional set of eyes, similar to a spotter in a road rally race. The spotter can see things that the driver may miss.

However, there is a trade-off. In a typical Demolition Derby car, the battery box is located adjacent to the driver where the passenger seat would be. The disadvantage to having a passenger is the relocation of the battery box to behind the driver and passenger, making it less accessible.

This means that on-the-fly fixes and

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adjustments related to the car’s electrical system are no longer an option.

“There are some troubleshooting things you can do with batteries,” Scholten said.

“Make sure everything’s connected. Having a passenger takes that out. You won’t be

able to troubleshoot electrical problems. So there are pros and cons.”

Furthermore, finding a partner might be difficult.

“You have to have a willing person to sit there,” Scholten said. “I don’t think too

many people are willing to do that.”

The Northwest Washington Fair is also considering adding a new sponsorship option to the derby, one that may have some Continued on page 10

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The grandstand arena for the Demo Derby allows some room for cars to get up some steam for a hit. However, there comes a time for all but one car to hoist the white flag of surrender. (Lynden Tribune file photos) benefits for derby drivers.

These would be sponsorship signs for events in the derby. If those signs stay up throughout the entire event, the

drivers get a bonus. This functions as an obstacle challenge.

“Anyone in that heat gets a bonus,” Scholten said. “They have an incentive not to hit it.

It’s kind of an added little thing to be watching for.”

It’s hard to add events to the derby, as there are time constraints. For now, Scholten said,

it’s all about making the events and the time between them more efficient.

Car numbers for the 2019 derby are about the same as

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Please bring the wrecker in — this looks like a salvage yard. (Lynden Tribune file photo) they were for last year, while the small truck event is growing.

“We’re going to be close to 20 little trucks this year,” Scholten said. “Other events are kind of declining.”

This doesn’t mean the derby itself is in decline, Scholten

said, as overall entry numbers have not dropped. Rather, the kinds of vehicles people enter in the derby keep changing.

“I think little trucks are easy to find. Big cars are getting harder to find,” Scholten said. “Entry numbers are going up, but certain events are going

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The derby has come a long way from its roots deep in Lynden fair history, Scholten said.

The derby used to just consist of big clunker cars, and it now features big cars, small cars, big trucks, small trucks and a

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Lynden PRCA Rodeo Ellensburg’s Minor family major in rodeo Brothers Brady and Riley have been frequent in Lynden, also top-10 in National Finals last year

In steer wrestling the cowboy has to slide from his horse to grab hold of and overpower an animal intent on running away from him. (Courtesy photo)

When it comes to rodeo, Ellensburg definitely leads Washington state.

In a massive community effort in 1923, the Ellensburg Rodeo was started up and has been continous ever since.

With its hay and cattle heritage, the countryside of Kittitas County is ideally suited for the roundup and roping skills needed by cowboys on the open range.

And one family from Ellensburg has contributed its fair share to being represented in professional rodeo, including the show in Lynden for the past 14 years. Their specialty is the team roping event of rodeo.

Brothers Brady and Riley Minor, who are a team together, as well as their cousin Jake, had not indicated at press time whether they would make

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The Minor brothers Brady and Riley do their specialty event of team roping, both the front and rear legs of a running calf, sometimes achieving it in less than 5 seconds. (Courtesy photo) the 2019 Lynden PRCA Rodeo, but they certainly have been present in the past.

Brady and Riley Minor, both now in their 30s, have been at the Lynden Rodeo multiple times. Riley was paired up with B.J. Campwell in winning Lynden back in 2006. Then the brothers got in their groove together, and they won team roping in Lynden in 2016, double lassooing their calf in just 4.6 seconds.

Last year, Riley (as header) and Brady (heeler) finished 9th and 10th in the world in earnings in team roping, both topping $142,000. Jake was 17th. The brothers duo has been at it together for 13 years in PRCA rodeo — in the only event that requires the extreme precision teamwork of two cowboys.

Brady is now a 10-time Wrangler National Finals Rodeo qualifier, Riley 9-time.

As a cattle town from the beginning, Ellensburg had the makings for rodeo as much as anywhere. In the early 1900s people were feeling a nostalgia for the vanishing frontier way of life. But ranchers were still using horses to herd and brand cattle, and they needed the

skills of roping and bulldogging (steer wrestling) to be successful.

They might as well put on a show from time to time.

“Some of the first rodeos were impromptu amateur affairs held in conjunction with the annual roundups in cattle country,” states the Ellensburg Rodeo website. “Competitions sprang up naturally among top hands as their fellow cowboys looked on.”

“But when non-cowboy spectators began to appear on the scene, these simple ranch rodeos began to make the transition that would eventually take them into town and into the world of modern rodeo.”

By the early 1920s a number of ranches in the Kittitas Valley area were holding affairs called “Sunday rodeos.”

Cowhands could show off their everyday skills in a competition in front of a crowd — sometimes of hundreds.

It was time to get this scattered activity organized for the economic benefit of Ellensburg.

Sometime around 1922, a group of business townsmen came to the Ferguson family in the Thorp area to ask

for help in putting on a first annual Ellensburg Rodeo. The Kittitas County Fair had already been started, and the fair board agreed to allow a rodeo at the venue of the fair.

Business people, cowboys and the fair board were all on board. A fourth partner in the effort was the Kittitas band of the Yakama Nation, who saw an opportunity to renew an old tradition of fall pilgrimage to their Kittitas “meeting grounds.”

But a suitable arena would have to be built.

It all came together in a series of community work days in June 1923. The Ellensburg Evening Record newspaper served as a voice for organizing, telling skilled or unskilled labor what to bring and where to report.

On one day 500 men with more than 200 horses showed up and set to work. Local merchants donated coffee, “weenies on buns,” ice cream and other foodstuffs that women volunteers prepared and served on the building site. The men graded a race track Continued on page 14

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Bareback riding requires a gritty mix of balance and guts, to stay on board for at least 8 seconds. (Courtesy photo) and a road, and rerouted a creek. They finished corrals, fences, three bridges and a grandstand. They even plumbed new water mains and pruned trees.

A headline shouted, “Community Effort Is Successful.”

The big first show was set for Sept. 13-15. It was advertised as the “greatest Wildest Roundup in the State.” And it measured up to the hype.

The newspaper reported that “the riders are skillful and the horses and steers are wild.” The grandstand was filled with cheering spectators, plus hundreds more in an overflow area, all enjoying “Ellensburg’s first real rodeo.” Local cowboy Frank Woods was named Champion Buckaroo of the Roundup.

And so a tradition that continues today was born.

And riding into this tradition was the Minor family. In an interview, this is what Ellensburg Rodeo historian John Ludtka said, looking back over time: “There is little that the Minor family hasn’t done for the Ellensburg Rodeo.”

He also said the modest cowboy ways and demeanor of the Minors kept them largely out of the limelight of the Ellensburg Rodeo, but they were always there.

Floyd P. and Jean Minor were Montana ranchers who moved to the Kittitas Valley in 1932, at the depths of the Great Depression.

They had three children, Floyd A. (“Buck”), Peggy Ellen (“Peg”) and Bette Jean (“B.J.”), and when it came to cowboy and ranching skills in this and future generations they would be hard to beat.

“The Minor family has produced literally dozens of

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The Minor brothers, Brady and Riley, show their skills in team roping at yet another competition. (Courtesy photo) tie-down, team-roping, wild cow milking, breakaway roping and bronc riding champions, trick ropers and riders, rodeo royalty, fair and rodeo board members and country musicians to insure the growth and vitality of the Ellensburg Rodeo,” states a website tribute to the family.

Patriarch Floyd P. Minor was an Ellensburg Rodeo timed-events volunteer and charter member of the Kittitas Valley Calf Roping Club.

Son Floyd A. “Buck” built his own ranch while work-

ing at another. He volunteered for the Ellensburg Rodeo and then served on its board with distinction for more than three decades. He was a two-time Kittitas County calf-roping champion.

Perhaps most important, “Buck” and Merna Minor had six children to carry on the tradition on Wilson Creek Road: Mike, Pat, Brent, Rosemarie, Troy and Marla. They grew up on horseback and several followed the rodeo road. Calf roping was especially the untouched domain of the Minor

family.

Meanwhile, the sisters “Peg” and “B.J.” had started their own Hunt and Hjelm family lines replete with rodeo riding and/or promotion skills and princess-ing too.

Today, the Minor family is to a fourth (and even a fifth) generation in rodeo, still calling Ellensburg home. Brady and Riley are sons of Brent Minor while Jake is a son of Troy.

In their busy schedule, the professional rodeo cowboys of course manage to find time to be in their home-town

Ellensburg Rodeo, which this year will be Aug. 30-Sept. 2.

“What a great run they put together in front of the most amazing hometown crowd today!” crowed the Ellensburg Rodeo Facebook on Sept. 3, 2018. Performing before the finals of the Ellensburg Rodeo, the brothers had won the team roping event with a 5.4 time.

The Minor family was inducted into the Ellensburg Rodeo Hall of Fame in 2007 for their contributions to the event.

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Thursday, August 15

Larry the Cable Guy Larry the Cable Guy set to take Lynden fair stage He grew up on a Nebraska pig farm, loves fairs and will bring his latest fresh comedy to a Northwest crowd

“Yeah, it’s you I’m talking to,” Larry the Cable Guy seems to be saying in his act.

“My wife and I are a couple of small-town kids,” he tells an interviewer. (Courtesy photo)

Fairgoers will be treated to a rural comedy legend this year, as Larry the Cable Guy is performing standup at the Northwest Washington Fair in Lynden on Aug. 15.

Larry gained fame as one of the four comedians in the Blue Collar Comedy Tour that swept America in the

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Now Larry can charm and entertain fans and spectators in north Whatcom County.

“No. 1, I enjoy the state of Washington. I’ve had good shows up there,” Larry said.

“No. 2, I enjoy fairs. I like working fairs. They’re fun to do. I’ve written a new act, I’ve enjoyed doing it and I grew up at fairs. It’s kind of cool being the entertainment at the fair.”

Growing up on a pig farm near Pawnee City, Nebraska, of fewer than 1,000 people, Larry is no stranger to small-town life. His wife, Carla Whitney, grew up on a Black Angus cattle ranch in northern Wisconsin in a town of 45 people.

“My wife and I are a couple small-town kids and I just happen to be a standup comedian and have some pretty good success,” Larry said. “Now that’s my life, but I grew up a small-town, Midwestern pig-farm kid. So obviously, most of the people that go to fairs, we all kind of grew up the same way. So I got a good connection. I love it.”

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If he weren’t specializing in humor, Larry the Cable Guy might be a tough customer to deal with. (Courtesy photo) people in rural Whatcom County also experienced.

“I grew up balin’ hay and cuttin’ weeds out of the beans and detasselin’ corn and going to the sale barn and loadin’ a truck full of cattle,” Larry said.

Small-town fairs are in his blood too. He was in FFA as a child, showed hogs and even judged pickle contests.

“Fairs generally mean a lot of small-town folks coming in,” Larry said. “I’m a rural kid. I’m a country kid.

They’re just fun. I love the atmosphere, I love the people.

It’s how I grew up.”

And he’s worked those kinds of experiences into his new comedy sketches.

“In my routine I have a whole bunch of fair stuff I talk about,” Larry said. “You know I’ve been to a lot of fairs when I’m writing jokes about them.”

His most recent bigtime show is a Netflix special titled “Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We’ve been thinking.”

If you’ve seen the Netflix special, you still won’t hear a ton of stuff from that, he said,

maybe about 10 minutes worth of material.

“Unless someone asks me, ‘Hey, will you do that thing about the theme park?’

Then probably I’ll do it just for them,” Larry said. “I’m going to come out there [to Lynden] with a whole brandnew theme.”

Larry is in the middle of filming a new album that’s set to be released in December. So most of the jokes Lynden fairgoers hear will be all new.

“I’m coming with a box full of brand-new jokes that

are nice and shiny and funny, and I think they’ll enjoy them,” Larry said. “I have a lot of jokes about carnivals and fairs and that’s going to be in my routine. It’ll be fun. They’re gonna hear stuff they’ve never heard before.”

Growing up in rural Nebraska, Larry jokes that he always wanted to be a dancer.

“All I ever wanted to do was dance. I’m kidding. As a matter of fact, growing up as a kid, I wanted to be a cattle auctioneer and drive a potbelly hog hauler. I wanted to work at the Wilson Hog

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He said he’s glad that he’s actually funny and that standup comedy is working out for him.

“I did way better doing standup than auctioneering,” Larry said. “It probably wouldn’t pay as well. Less people are buying auctioneer albums.”

Now he tests out his new jokes on friends and family. He even throws up jokes on his Twitter account to see what kind of reaction they get. Sometimes he’ll test new stuff out on stage.

He’s cut back on albums and shows in recent years, now that he’s 56 and has kids that are 12 and 11.

“I don’t want to miss their stuff.,” Larry said.

“They’re getting bigger and doing fun things. I went from being on the road 285 days a year, living on a tour bus, to only taking 30 shows a year for the last two years. Basically I did those shows, then

2019 Fair Magazine I was writing material, so now I have enough material for another album.”

He emphasizes again that the Northwest Washington Fair show will have plenty of never-before-heard sketches.

“That’s always the problem with comedians,” Larry said. “I treat comedy like a country music singer. When people see a comedian once or twice, they think, ‘I won’t go again. I’ve already seen him.’ But I don’t think people realize I’m constantly putting in new material. When I go into a new city I always try to have a ton of brand-new material so they don’t have to sit through the same act.”

Larry hits the main stage of the Northwest Washington Fair at 7 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 15. Tickets for preferred seats are $55, reserved seats $35. The grandstand tickets do not include gate admission for the fair, which is required.

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Friday, August 16

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to songwriter, session musician and record producer Mark Wright.

Wright helped Chesnutt sign on with MCA Records in 1990, the same year that Mark’s dad died of a heart attack.

It all intermingled also with his majorlabel debut, “Too Cold at Home.” Five of its singles charted on Billboard Hot Country Singles and Tracks. His first number-one single on Hot Country Songs was “I Wonder Do You Think of Me.” All of the album’s singles peaked in the top 10 of that chart before the close of 1991.

Interestingly, 1990 was the same year Garth Brooks released his smash-hit single “Friends in Low Places.” Chesnutt had recorded the song as well, and it appears on his debut album.

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In 30 years Mark Chestnutt has produced more than a dozen albums of music. his last number-one thus far, a cover of the Aerosmith megahit “I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing.”

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Saturday, August 17

Cheap Trick Cheap Trick still on the road four decades later Illinois band inducted into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016 It’s been more than 40 years since the band Cheap Trick released its debut album “Cheap Trick” in 1977. The band is still chugging along today and will be making an appearance at the Northwest Washington Fair grandstand for a performance on Saturday, Aug. 17.

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Cheap Trick has consisted of, from left, Rick Nielsen, Robin Zander, Tom Petersson and Daxx Nielsen. (Courtesy photo)

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Robin Zander always seems to be wearing a favorite hat at the time of his performing. (Courtesy photo) time being certified gold.

Cheap Trick’s success in the United States came after the release of live album “Cheap Trick at Budokan,” which was originally intended to be released only in Japan.

There was a high demand for the album in the states and it was eventually released in February 1979.

The band reached Top 10 on the United States charts in 1979 with the song “I Want

You to Want Me.” Cheap Trick’s first-ever No. 1 hit in the United States was the ballad “The Flame,” the first single from the album “Lap of Luxury.”

By 1980 Cheap Trick was

headlining tours and selling out shows in the United States, but struggled later in the decade after bassist Tom Petersson’s departure.

The band was sued by CBS Inc. in 1981 and had

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Being on tour is nothing new to the band. Cheap Trick has been touring since the ‘70s and shows no signs of slowing down. To date, the band has played well over 5,000 shows, has sold more than 20 million albums and was recently inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016.

The longevity of the band could be attributed to three of its original members still being a part of the group today.

Robin Zander, Rick Nielsen and Petersson have been with the band from the beginning.

The band’s induction into the Hall of Fame marked a reunion with Bun E. Carlos, the band’s original drummer, who had left the band in 2010.

Nielsen’s son, Daxx, has filled the band’s vacancy at drummer since then.

Zander has attributed the group’s sound to all four of the original members having different backgrounds in music and then putting them all together.

In 1999 Cheap Trick recorded a cover of the 1972 song “In The Street” by Big Star which was then used as the theme song for “That ‘70s Show” from the show’s second season until the end of its run on television.

The band spent much of the early 2000s writing and recording new music. In March 2002 the band recorded its

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The band from the 1970s shows no signs of slowing down. Three members, Nielsen, Petersson and Zander, have been continuous. (Courtesy photo) first studio album in six years at Bearsville Studios in New York.

Cheap Trick returned to the Budokan arena in 2008.

The band performed for the 30th anniversary of “Cheap Trick at Budokan,” which had originally been released in 1978.

“We’re All Alright!”, the band’s most recent album, was released on June 16, 2017,

by Big Machine Records. The group also released a Christmas album, “Christmas Christmas,” in October of that year.

Cheap Trick is currently touring across the United States and Canada in 2019, occasionally making appearances on ZZ Top’s 50th Anniversary Tour.

Tickets for Cheap Trick at the Northwest Washington Fair in Lynden are available

now. Preferred seats for the show are $35, and reserved seats are available for $25. VIP tickets are also available for $134 per person, and are available in sets of two ($268 total).

Gate admission to the fair is not included with grandstand tickets, but is required for entry.

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For many kids, showing their animals at the Lynden fair is the climax of their FFA or 4-H year. (Lynden Tribune file photo)

Kids and their project animals equal attraction with grandstand entertainment Nationally renowned comedian Larry the Cable Guy and Rock and Roll Hall of

Fame band Cheap Trick lead the entertainment slate for the 109th Northwest Washington Fair, scheduled Aug. 12-17 in Lynden. “Remember This Summer Forever” is the nostalgia theme.

Big crowds also are expected for the Demolition Derby, the Lynden PRCA Rodeo and classic country artist Mark Chesnutt.

But the Northwest Wash-

ington Fair realizes its biggest stars are the animals and the people who raise them, according to manager Jim Baron.

“Thousands of people appreciate agriculture in Whatcom County more due to all the farmers and 4-H and FFA members who exhibit with us,” Baron said. “Adults and children love seeing all the different animals, including draft horses, cows, goats, pigs and

more.”

The Northwest Washington Fair, which draws close to 200,000 attendees each year, opens its gates at 9 a.m. and closes them at 10 p.m. each day. The carnival is open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m.

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Funtastic Traveling Shows returns to the Northwest Washington Fair with its wide variety of rides and games in the carnival area. (Lynden Tribune file photo)

6-12. Children 5 and younger are admitted for free.

Complimentary gate admission will be offered on Military Appreciation Day Aug. 14, for all active-duty, retired and veteran military personnel and their accompanying spouse and children. Families of deployed personnel will be given full complimentary gate admission with valid military identification.

Military Appreciation Day also will include participation by active-duty personnel and Veterans of Foreign Wars members in the free grandstand horse shows at noon and 4:30 p.m. A special flag ceremony will be held near the clock tower at 5:45 p.m., and a tribute to the armed forces will precede the Lynden PRCA Rodeo competition at 7 p.m.

Wednesday.

“The Northwest Washington Fair Board, our staff and I have a tremendous amount of respect for those who have served in the armed forces for our country,” Baron said. “Free gate admission on Aug. 14 for them and their families is one way we can express our gratitude.”

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Fair food options, from sizzling meat to curly fries, are one of the delicious delights offered. (Lynden Tribune file photo) sion tickets and two one-day carnival wristbands are offered for $99, a savings of $23, exclusively at Little Caesars Pizza outlets in Whatcom and Skagit counties through Aug. 11. Allday carnival wristbands for $29 (regularly $38) also are available at Little Caesars.

The Bank of the Pacific Grandstand Entertainment Series starts with the actionpacked Demolition Derby on Aug. 12 (shows at 12:30 and 7 p.m.). Then some of the top professional cowboys and cowgirls in the world will compete in bull riding, bareback riding, saddle bronc riding, barrel racing, tie-down roping, steer wrestling and team roping during the Lynden PRCA

Rodeo at 7 p.m. Aug. 13 and Aug. 14.

The opening Tuesday show will be part of the Tough Enough to Wear Pink campaign. Contestants, volunteers and spectators are encouraged to “wear pink” to raise awareness of breast cancer while local rodeo volunteers conduct fundraisers. Last year, the Tough Enough to Wear Pink program in Lynden donated $50,000 to the PeaceHealth St. Joseph Cancer Center in Bellingham for cancer patient care and research.

The rodeo is followed by three top-flight entertainment acts, all at 7 p.m.: Larry the Cable Guy on Thursday, Aug. 15; Mark Chesnutt on Friday, Aug.

16; and Cheap Trick on Saturday, Aug. 17.

Tickets for all the grandstand entertainment can be purchased at www.nwwafair. com; at the fair office, 1775 Front St., Lynden; and by phone at 360-354-4111. VIP packages also are available for each performance. Grandstand tickets don’t include fair gate admission, which is required.

Amid plenty of fun and food options, Baron said, the Northwest Washington Fair reminds fairgoers about healthy practices, such as washing hands and drinking plenty of fluids.

“An excellent preventive measure at any event is wash-

ing hands thoroughly and frequently,” Baron said. “We’ll have 24 hand-washing stations throughout the fairgrounds plus public restrooms.”

Other highlights of this year’s Northwest Washington Fair: • The region’s largest provider of carnival rides and games, Funtastic Traveling Shows, will return. More than 3 million people, including attendees of the Washington State Fair in Puyallup and the Oregon State Fair, visit Funtastic Traveling Shows each year.

• Children 10 and younger can get free tickets to the Lynden PRCA Rodeo by going to the fair office or a CHS Northwest retail store in Whatcom

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• The new Farm Pavilion, future home of the Farming for Life Experience exhibit, has replaced three old buildings near the main entrance.

Scheduled to open in August 2020, the Farming for Life Experience will redefine farming in the 21st century and showcase Pacific Northwest agriculture. Visit the building during the fair for an exclusive sneak peek at this exciting exhibit.

• A hypnotist, illusionist, comedian and bands will be among the free entertainment at the Banner Bank Festival Stage near the front entrance each day of the fair.

• A variety of strolling acts, including juggler Chase Barton, Penelope the Clown, Fables of the West tiny cowboys, and multi-talented duo Tangled Threads, will entertain fairgoers when they least expect it.

For more information, visit www.nwwafair.com or call 360-354-4111.

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The pond is stocked and the fishing is good in this carnival game of Funtastic Traveling Shows, coming to the fair for a second year. (Lynden Tribune file photo)

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Top: Steve & Stephanie Joostens, current owner and manager, posing with their family Bottom: Hinton Chevrolet’s location for nearly three decades

Hinton Chevrolet has been doing business right here in Lynden since its inception in 1947. The dealership was originally started by Dwight Hinton and Lawrence Reed, who were partners in a local community Texaco gas station.

Eventually, Mr. Hinton moved the business into the old Ford dealership downtown after ending his partnership with Mr. Reed. It remained there until the move to the current location on the Guide Meridian in the early 1980s.

Dwight and his son Mark ran the family business for years before Mark eventually took over the family business. In 2007, Steve Joostens became a partner in the business with Mark; Joostens would later purchase Hinton Chevrolet in January 2018.

Steve and Stephanie Joostens now continue to run the only locally owned GM franchise dealership in Whatcom County and continue to run it with the old-fashioned and straightforward business practices with which it was founded.

“I sell most of my customers on a handshake and love doing business this way,” Steve said.

The Joostens have made a variety of improvements to the dealership, including new interior paint, remodels throughout, a new beverage kiosk, large televisions, new furniture, electronic charging stations and some new decorative items.

“The local community is a very important part of what the business represents, and we wanted to continue to invest into it even more,” Steve said. “We wanted to update the building with our main concern being focused on our customers. We wanted a warmer environment that our customers could relax in and hope to continue more customer-centered improvements moving forward.”

The Joostens plan to continue investing in the community and to grow their business in a slow, steady fashion in order to preserve a positive customer experience. Investing in the community brings customers in the doors, allowing Hinton Chevrolet to further invest in customer care and an experience to remember.

“We are in business to make money,” Steve said, “but we make money in order to take care of our customers. It takes money to give and invest back into the community and we look forward to doing just that.”

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A new Farm Pavilion is built And now the push is on to fund the Farming For Life Experience inside

The 360 Surround Theater in the new building will tell the story of food production. (Courtesy photo)

What’s new for the Northwest Washington Fair in 2019? Well, that’s obvious.

A new Farm Pavilion building stands front and center at the fairgrounds’ Front Street entrance.

Scores of people were on hand to join in the celebrative ribbon-cutting for the new structure on July 18.

The big crowd on hand hinted at the broad coalition of support that was needed — and continues to be needed

for the interior exhibit — to make this dream fully come true.

“Over 50 businesses, organizations and individuals have donated over $4 million to make the Farm Pavilion, which will house a 10,000-square-foot exhibition space, a reality,” said Jim Baron, general manager of the Northwest Washington Fair. “Now we are attempting to raise $2 million to fund the Farming for Life Experience, which will offer educational, interactive and immersive exhibits engaging visitors of all ages.”

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In the mix, it’s planned that Washington State University will occupy space on the northeast side of the Farm Pavilion as a base for continuing its raspberry breeding research in close proximity to the fields that grow fruit.

Demolition of some of the oldest buildings on the grounds happened on Oct. 29, 2018. That meant there was only one option — to rebuild, and fast — to have something else in its place usable for the 2019 fair.

It did happen in 262 days, with Exxel Pacific Inc. as the general contractor for a 24,000-square-foot structure designed by Peter Carletti of Mount Vernon. Through a winter of less than ideal weather conditions at times, the concrete blocks, wooden beams and roof trusses came into place, and the sprawling new structure gradually took shape.

It’s divided into three sections, with a food and catering kitchen to the west, the

big Farming For Life Experience exhibit in the middle, and the WSU research labs and offices to the east. Some space will be adaptable.

This is how Baron describes the centerpiece of Farming For Life: “Through animated light, sound and multi-image depictions, the 360 Surround Theater will dramatically portray the full process of creating food by northwest Washington farmers. Created to stimulate all the senses, this immersive experience will bring a new understanding to what it means to be a farmer in the 21st century.”

The creative mind behind the central exhibit is David Lackey, whose Whirlwind Creative firm in New York City has been involved in the planning, design and implementation of numerous permanent, temporary and traveling exhibits for museums, corporations and cultural centers.

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Not just a dream now, the new Farm Pavilion building sought for several years is now a reality in time for the 2019 fair. (Courtesy visual/Carletti Architects) Lackey grew up himself in a farming context much like Lynden’s except in Ohio.

It’s hoped the Farming For Life Experience can be open for the August 2020 Northwest Washington Fair.

But that will take another year-long push.

For a virtual tour of the planned exhibit area, visit www.farming-for-life.com.

And the fair welcomes any contributions that can help make the big final goal happen, to make the Farm Pavilion complete.

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Chris Pickering was on hand for the July 18 ribbon-cutting event at the new Farm Pavilion. (Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

He grew up visiting California fairs Chris Pickering comes into the role of assistant manager for the Northwest Washington Fair practically with fair DNA in his blood.

Pickering has been in the new Lynden job since February, serving closely with fair manager Jim Baron.

It so happens that Chris’s father, Rick Pickering, is CEO of the California State Fair and Exposition in Sacramento. Before that, the senior Pickering headed the Alameda County Fairgrounds and earlier still was deputy general manager at the Orange County Fairgrounds.

Rick Pickering has also been on

boards and an officer of fair associations and alliances, and he continues to be the Zone 8 chair of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions, of which the Lynden fair is a member.

It was in an interaction with Rick that Jim Baron was led to Chris Pickering, and Chris agreed to take the opportunity in Lynden.

He carries plenty of memories of “getting to go around to fairs” with his dad and hearing and seeing the innermost details of how a fair should function, right down to “where the garbage cans should go,” he said.

There is also the factor that Chris’s mother was a Bouwman and so he may have some distant relatives in Lynden, although he hasn’t looked closely into that yet.

He was communications director for the Western Fairs Association before transferring here and he has been through a two-year fair management program of IAFE. Pickering is absorbing all that’s involved in running the Lynden fair, and doing some specific assignments as well.

For instance, Pickering is coordinating a new ceremony that will take place on the 2019 fair’s Military Appreciation Day on Wednesday, Aug. 14, at about 5:45 p.m. near the Clock Tower. All the U.S. military branches will have their song played, any veterans present will be acknowledged, and the American flag there will be retired for the day.

That emphasis continues at the evening’s Lynden PRCA Rodeo as well.

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Arabian club continues strong in horse barn

For Arabian horse owners, the Northwest Washington Fair is a favorite way to show off their breed. (Courtesy photo)

Members: It’s a lot of work, but worthwhile to have fun and see people at the fair It can be a challenge to keep the agricultural focus of a fair, even in the center of agriculture as for the Northwest

Washington Fair of Lynden.

Horse showing is still going strong, however, in the big building and arena on the south end of the grounds.

Horse groups specific to breed are less common at the Lynden fair now than in the past. But one breed has continued to make a splash — Arabians. In fact, the Northwest Washington Arabian Horse Association is the last breed group at the fair, ac-

cording to club member Janie Westhoff.

She is a true horse lover.

“I love Arabians. I like them because they’re sensitive and very responsive,” Westhoff said. “They have a lot of endurance. They don’t quit.”

Westhoff believes the association has survived as long as it has at the fair because it also welcomes owners of non-Arabian breeds. As a re-

sult, the club’s horses and riders compete in a number of events at the fair.

The Northwest Arabian club has about 10-12 members who show at the fair each year, Westhoff said. This year, nine horses will be taken, as stall space tends to be limited.

Riders will participate in a number of classes, from halter to English and Western.

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With about 50 members in all, this regional club is part of a national association.

NWAHA hosts other events such as a Spring Open Show and the Northwest Reining Association Show in the fall and it participates in the Lynden Farmers Day Parade.

They are often recognized for their “Arabian-style” dress-up to honor the breed and the Arabian tradition, and this color and flair can be seen at the fair too.

Member Betty Squire said showing at the fair is by far the club’s biggest event of the year. She said everyone has been busier at the fair over the past few years, often showing in 1-2 classes a day.

What is her favorite part of participating in the fair?

“Each year, I ask myself that,” Squire replied with a laugh. “It’s a lot of work, and I always think ‘why am I doing this?’ [The best part] is just hanging out with the people, I think. We see a lot of people that you only see at the fair.”

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“We treat it as a fun thing.

Everyone likes to win, but if you go in expecting to win every event, you’ll be disappointed. If you go in with the idea of having fun, that’s a lot better,” Westhoff said.

Arabian horses participate in the light horses open classes, which also include buckskins, half-Arabs, Appaloosas, paints and pintos, and quarter horses. The draft or heavy horse division, on the other hand, includes Belgians, Haflingers and other stockier breeds known for their driving and pulling strength.

According to light horse superintendent Lynda Revak, there used to be other breed-

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There are also color associations focused on breed colors such as appaloosa, buckskin and paint horses.

Revak said fewer people are raising and keeping horses on their own property than in years past, which has changed the agricultural landscape not only in the region but also in showing at the fair. Accessibility and cost are also issues in horse-keeping, she said.

“It’s moving from people having their own horses on their own property to people boarding horses,” Revak said.

“In the past, something like 85 percent of kids in 4-H lived on farms with horses. Now they can only keep doing it if they can afford it.”

Squire, who has been a member of NWAHA since 1993, said this is true within the club as well, and that allowing people to work with horses who may not come by the opportunity as easily is es-

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Horses are ridden 2-3 times per week to be fair-ready. pecially important to keeping the club strong.

“We try to incorporate as many kids as we can. Not all kids are able to do 4-H. You have to go to so many meetings to participate, and they have to do a vigorous showing schedule. We’re a lot more laid-back than that,” Squire said.

According to Westhoff, participants in the club range in age from 11 to 60.

In preparation for the fair

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Three new members have joined the Northwest Washington Fair directors: Selena Burgess, Tresie Wiersma and Loren Vander Yacht. (Courtesy photos/Northwest Washington Fair)

The Northwest Washington Fair has welcomed three new members to its board of directors this year. Selena Burgess, Tresie Wiersma and Loren Vander Yacht all came on in fair association voting last November.

Board members follow the policies and procedures set forth in fair bylaws and hold the fair manager accountable, Wiersma said.

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Burgess said. “Our role is to make sure staff and management accomplish goals.”

Both Wiersma and Vander Yacht have been a part of the fair themselves in some way for most of their lives.

“I’ve been involved with the fair in various aspects for several years,” Wiersma said.

“I’ve been involved with the ranch sorting that we do fall through spring. My daughter is in 4-H and I showed at the reining shows for years that are held at the fairgrounds.”

Wiersma and Vander Yacht said being around the fair in some way for so long is what made them want to be a part of the board.

“The fair has been a part of my life as long as I can remember,” Vander Yacht said.

“I was a hobby judge and I still work with the entertainment backstage. I’ve been involved in one way or another or multiple ways with the fair my entire life, basically.”

Burgess also said she’s

been involved for a long time.

“I think I’m just really passionate about the fair, our community and agriculture, and that kind of led me in this direction,” she said.

Wiersma has also been a part of Tough Enough to Wear Pink, a national campaign and framework for rodeos and events to use to raise funds for breast cancer awareness.

“I’ve been kind of plugged into various aspects and I was asked to run [for the board] last year and it’s something I had thought about prior, but just for various reasons didn’t run,” Wiersma said. “Last year, when I was asked by a few people, I just thought, ‘You know what? I’m going to do it and see how it goes.’”

When he was in the fourth grade, Vander Yacht showed a calf at the fair as part of 4-H. He said his dad, Ron, was also on the fair board growing up and was the fair manager for 13 years.

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Wiersma said she is most excited to see the new Farm Pavilion building up and eventually running fully as intended.

“I just think that’s going to be a really great thing for our community,” Wiersma said. “It’s going to be a fantastic educational experience for not only our community members, but for people that come to our area and for people in general to understand the importance of farming and how we’re all connected through it.”

Vander Yacht said he’s looking forward to the new building as well, but also for the future of the fair.

“I’m excited to maintain what we have and build off what we have,” he said. “I’m just excited for my first year.

It won’t be a whole lot different for me because I’m used to being there, but I will have some different responsibilities this year.”

Burgess said she loves the whole experience of ev-

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The election of Wiersma and Burgess marked the first time women have held a member position on the fair board.

“I’m honored, first of all,” Wiersma said. “I think it’s important to have balance on boards. There’s things that females see or react differently to or understand in a different way. I just think it’s a good balance. We bring different perspectives. It’s just good to have options.”

Burgess said she didn’t run for the board because she is a woman, but because of how much she cares about the fair.

“I just ran because I’m passionate about the fair,” she said. “I don’t really feel like it’s any different than if I were a man. Everyone is really great and it’s been such a great experience so far.”

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Meet the new Miss Lynden Rodeo Aimee Henderson is homegrown and has hopes of going higher in pro rodeo

Aimee Henderson and her horse, Dixie, are decked out and ready for the 2019 Lynden rodeo. (Courtesy photo)

Aimee Henderson has always had a passion for horses.

Her goal is to be a part of the professional rodeo world at some point.

For now, the 17-year-old from Everson will be Miss Lynden Rodeo for the 2019 Lynden PRCA Rodeo during the Northwest Washington Fair.

Her parents are James and Angela Henderson, and Aimee has three brothers.

She graduated from Lynden Academy with honors this

past June. Aimee was also full-time in Running Start at Whatcom Community College. She likes to spend time with family and friends.

Beyond her rodeo dreams, she hopes to one day become a pediatric dental assistant.

Her horse is named Dixie.

Across the years, she has always been involved in the fair somehow, whether it was through 4-H or FFA. “I really wanted to be part of the community,” Henderson said. “I had heard how amazing they are. It’s basically being part of a huge family and so that brought me to applying to be Miss Lynden Rodeo. I thought it would be an honor to represent them and I was blessed to be selected.”

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“I was a performance rider,” she said. “I fell in love with it and applied to as many groups as I could and got to know as many people as I could. Now it’s become my life.”

Henderson is the 10th person to be crowned Miss Lynden Rodeo since the program’s inception in 2009.

The application process was actually fairly simple, Henderson said.

She submitted an application, had an interview with the fair board of directors, gave a speech and had to prepare a video of her horsemanship skills. Overall, she said it was a short process.

“They called the night of [the interview] to let me know I had been selected, which was unbelievable,” Henderson said. “They said they liked me and that was awesome.”

The coronation was postponed a little. Once the 2018 queen, Josie Hinman was fin-

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Henderson said she is now feeliong a lot of anticipation for the fair and the rodeo to begin.

“I’m so excited for our rodeo,” she said. “I’ve been to a couple of other queen’s rodeos and parades.”

Henderson was also at the July 6 Sumas Bull-a-Rama.

She said one of the parts of the fair and rodeo she really enjoys is seeing the kids running around in excitement.

“I love kids and being a role model for them, signing autographs, talking to them, hearing they want to be in the rodeo. That’s really the best part for me,” Henderson said.

“I’m definitely most looking forward to our rodeo.”

Rodeo fans can see Henderson involved in the Lynden PRCA Rodeo on Tuesday, Aug. 13, and Wednesday, Aug. 14, with the program starting at 7 p.m. both days.

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Fair business booth is about keeping up relationships

From a basic layout, the Muljat Group North booth gets built up to attractively represent the real estate agency.

(Courtesy photo/Muljat North Group)

Muljat Group North will be back there in Expo Building — for 39th year What is today Muljat Group North has been a business exhibitor at the Northwest Washington Fair since owner Jerry Blankers got his license for the first time in 1980.

For many years the name was Snapper Shuler Kenner Real Estate in downtown Lynden.

And now for a 39th straight year the prominent north-Whatcom real estate

company will again be present at the fair in 2019.

The Lynden-based company has deep roots in the community. First starting as Snapper Insurance and Real Estate in 1926, there was a name change to Snapper Shuler and then Snapper Shuler Kenner, and by 2010 the two sides of the business were split.

Jerry and his dad, Pete Blankers, bought out minority owner Paul Kenner and agreed to a joint venture name deal with Frank Muljat to form The Muljat Group North.

Jerry began working for the company in 1980 while Pete was a broker. Then in 1992 the father and son duo switched roles and Jerry became the broker. In 2016 Jerry

became sole owner of the company when he bought out Pete.

The Muljat Group is expecting to have its exhibit this year exactly where it’s been the past two decades, at a prominent corner of foot traffic — but it’s not for certain.

“We’re usually right when you walk through the front gate and into the Commercial Building,” Jerry said.

“That’s where we’ve always been. We’ve been there for 25 years probably. That could change a little bit with that big (new) building sitting there.

The door is half-blocked now, so I don’t know what’s going to go on this year. We’ll see.”

Wherever they end up, Jerry and his company will have a booth to display all

their current real estate listings, as well as hand out pins and maps and just talk to passersby.

Jerry said having a booth is more about socializing with people in the community and making connections than actually selling anything.

“I think it’s more just the social aspect,” Jerry said.

“Once in awhile we sell some stuff. But it’s more reconnecting with the people, people you haven’t seen for a year or two, and all the sudden there they are. It’s a good melting pot where you see a lot of clients and a lot of old friends, and kind of reconnect with them for future business down the road. That’s the main reason.”

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Hypnotist Jerry Harris is back this year His daughter Tammy Harris Barton has been in the role the last 15 years Fifteen years ago, hypnotist and entertainer Jerry Harris recommended the perfect replacement for his act at the Northwest Washington Fair: Tammy Harris Barton, his daughter and fellow hypnotist.

This year, Barton is passing the baton back. The two are part of the only known family of hypnotists in the world, with Harris, his wife and two of their three daughters immersed in either hypnosis entertainment or medical hypnotherapy.

Harris had performed regularly at the fair for nearly a decade until 2003, when new fair management decided to change up the acts. It took only a year of his absence before attendees were adamant about having his popular hypnotism back at the fair.

However, by the next year when he was asked, Harris already had another gig booked at the same time in August. He recommended daughter Barton, and she ended up continuing all the way to 2018. Now Harris says he is eager to be back at a fair he had worked for so long before.

“It’s a wonderful fair. It’s a beautiful fairgrounds. We’ve had huge participation. It’s everything an entertainer would want,” Harris said. “I feel very blessed to be able to perform there.”

This summer, Barton is booked for an act at Six Flags in New York City, performing every day. While a full-time gig in one location for the summer is a nice change, she said leaving the Lynden fair was bittersweet too.

“I cried last year when I told everyone I wasn’t coming

Jerry Harris has experienced the power of hypnotherapy himself. (Courtesy photo) back,” she said. “The Northwest Washington Fair is my favorite fair of all time.”

Harris said he wasn’t always a believer in the power of hypnosis. However, this changed for him when hypnosis helped his youngest daughter, Angelina, who lives with a severe disability, to overcome physical barriers that doctors said would be impossible for her to beat.

Years later, Harris said, hypnosis helped to eliminate some of his own stress that was contributing to stomach problems and internal bleeding.

He said a surgery might have required partial removal of his stomach, but hypnosis by Gil Boyne, one of the top practitioners in the world at the time, prevented it. At his next doctor’s visit after hypnotherapy, it was found his stomach had

began to heal on its own.

“I realized this is the most incredible tool in the world. I witnessed a miracle with my daughter, and then I saw my own miracle,” he said.

Harris decided to join his wife in studying clinical hypnotherapy, and enrolled in a program run by Boyle. He gave seminars about self-help through hypnosis before he began touring the country and

Ferndale Record refining an act by adding humor. Barton was his “roadie,” helping out with merchandise and setting up his act, eventually getting into hypnosis entertainment herself along with another daughter, Jennifer.

“My father and I have performed together, and it’s the biggest hoot in the world. We work so well together,” Barton said.

What sets this family’s acts apart is their focus on making the audience members, rather than themselves, the show‘s stars, Harris said. He chooses to present his craft not as a way to show control over volunteers, but to educate them about the actual benefits of hypnosis.

“People are in control. I just give a suggestion and they accept it,” Harris said. “It’s not even close to what you think it should feel like. It’s all relaxation. You don’t give up control. You don’t give up power.”

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Tammy Harris Barton, following in her father’s footsteps, has been at the Lynden fair the past 14 years, but now her dad is back with his act in 2019. (Courtesy photo)

popularity to rise so quickly, and Barton was trained soon after in order for performances to maintain the same quality among different family members.

He has been doing hypnosis entertainment full-time now for 31 years, while his daughter did her first show when she was 18 and now has been doing it for around 17 years.

Harris said he originally didn’t expect to keep coming back to Lynden for so many years, or even to be asked to work there at all.

As a member of the Washington State Fair Association, he did a showcase at the 1994 fair convention including audience members from Lynden.

Having heard that the city was fairly religious and would have nothing to do with hypnotists, he was surprised when representatives from the Northwest Washington Fair were the first to approach him. He came back to Lynden for nine years.

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“It’ll be a good transformation for the audience,” Harris said. “They’re going to see routines done a little differently.”

Barton said that during her years performing at the fair, she would meet people who remembered her from years earlier or knew her father.

“It’s a funny little cycle of life sometimes,” she said. “I still have people ask, ‘how’s your dad?’ I’d say, ‘he’s always working.’”

The family legacy of fair performing continues even farther. Barton’s son Chase has a juggling act, using a skill he learned when he was 5 years old backstage while along on her hypnotism shows.

Harris will be performing at the fair each day at 2:30 and 5:30 p.m. at Banner Bank Festival Stage.

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“What I miss about the fair and loved the most, is when they would drop in the parachutists. When you’re eight, nine years old, it’s kind of cool.”

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The Moo-Wich has earned its own fan base

The Thursday before the fair each year is the date on which three shifts of volunteers coordinated by Whatcom County Dairy Women make about 10,000 Moo-Wiches. (Courtesy photo/Cheryl DeHaan)

People return each year to get the dairy treat, or two or three, of the 10,000 made Kim Vlas, with the What-

com County Dairy Women, has a big responsibility: She is behind the staffing of the organization’s two booths at the Northwest Washington Fair and advance production of the famous Moo-Wiches. It’s no small task.

Vlas, a former “city girl through and through” from Seattle, has been on a Whatcom County dairy farm for 32 years now with husband

Peter. Almost all that time she has also been involved with the active support group.

She saw the start-up of the familiar Dairy Women booth at a corner of the fair dairy barn to sell dairy treats.

The shakes and sundaes also include raspberries and strawberries from local farms.

There’s 12 flavors of Edaleen Dairy hard ice cream and several of soft-serve. Woods Cof-

fee provides a cold brew for mocha shakes. It’s truly a local showcase.

About six years ago, a second location on the fairgrounds was added, closer to the grandstand, to better serve fairgoers on the central walkway.

For the uninformed, a Moo-Wich is a slab of locally produced Edaleen vanilla ice cream between two oversized

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specially-made chocolate chip cookies from The Woods Coffee bakery, just down the street from the fairgrounds.

Notes from 1982 say that member Cheryl De Haan came up with the name, which has since been trademarked to prevent “piracy.”

Six to eight weeks before the fair, the bakery starts cookies production using fresh Darigold butter, Vlas said. The 20,000 cookies are frozen and stored on a Brown Line Company truck (a division of Lynden Inc.), which has both freezers and refrigeration.

For Moo-Wich making and serving in the two booths, “there’s always an opportunity (for community involvement),” Vlas said. The group is open to volunteers who wish to promote dairy products or farming — with no age limit.

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Once made, the Moo-Wiches are put into individual plastic bags for serving at the fair. (Courtesy photo/Cheryl DeHaan) ‘vintage’ member!” Vlas said.

Pauline’s daughter Debbie Vander Veen, who was raised in the dairy farming lifestyle, has continued to work with the fair and her daughter Lacey Vander Veen to stage a separate Small Animal Experience introducing young farm animals to the public.

“We’re open to ‘regular’ folks,” Vlas said. While she and many of the Dairy Wom-

en are from operating dairy farms, not all are.

To better handle the high staffing needs, Vlas said her group of 21 active members approaches an assortment of other nonprofits to assist them. That has included athletic groups, boosters clubs and church youth. Their Facebook page was again posting for needs this year.

Actual production of the Moo-Wiches occurs in three

shifts the Thursday before the fair, which will be Aug. 8 this year. Twenty-five volunteers are needed for each shift as 10,000 Moo-Wiches are made and go back into a freezer.

The “pay” consists of a big thank-you, a fair pass and a token for an ice cream cone at the fair.

Where do that many volunteers come from? “Out of the woodwork,” Vlas laughs.

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Since the tasty treats are so popular with fairgoers, are any left over of the 10,000 made? “No, rarely are any left.” Weather and entertainment can be factors determining sales, of course, she adds.

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FFA member talks of his learning curve From showing animals to plant breeding, Kaiden Van Dalen keeps adding skills

Kaiden Van Dalen had many years of fair animal showing on his way to now working for a raspberry grower and hoping to have a career in agronomy. (Courtesy photo)

Kaiden Van Dalen found out he had won a Northwest Washington Fair scholarship just a couple of weeks after he applied and was interviewed.

The $500 scholarship will now aid the 19-year-old Lynden High School grad in his studies when he enters Whatcom Community College this fall. “I was planning on going straight to Wazzu, but I decided to save some money and go to Whatcom Commu-

Ferndale Record nity College for two years and get my AA, then transfer,” Van Dalen said. “All my credits line up to go to Wazzu.”

He won the scholarship in May and now estimates he has about 6-10 scholarships total to help continue his education.

“It’s a great boost of confidence because you work so hard filling out all these applications,” Van Dalen said.

“That was like my third scholarship and I got some after that too. It makes you feel a lot better about how much work you put into it. It’s actually paying off. Everything is paid for now, so it’s nice.”

Van Dalen plans to major in plant science and minor in business management when he reaches Washington State University in two years.

“That’s the avenue I’ve chosen and we’ll see where it leads me,” Van Dalen said.

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2019 Fair Magazine showed a cow-calf pair at the Northwest Washington Fair, and he was just about to wean the calf when he heard about more wildfires in eastern Washington. He found out that some members of FFA clubs over there had lost a lot of animals to the wildfires and he wanted to help out.

“It just doesn’t seem fair to me that there’s a lot of kids out there putting just as much time as I am into it and they lose their whole project and money,” Van Dalen said.

“I don’t know how much their parents helped them out, but it was just devastating to hear about all of that. I figured at least I got to show and the least I can do is help them out and let them get some money for it.”

Now he’s working at Maberry Packing Co. with that berry growing family. It’s a summer workplace he’s been

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Now Van Dalen is getting close to being a test plot breeder and an assistant agronomist, looking for ways to increase soil and crop productivity — continually rising knowledge.

“We have a test plot program where we have a bunch of different varieties of raspberries that we’re trying to develop and make a perfect variety that holds together and has a high sugar content,” Van Dalen said. “We have probably 10 acres of it.

I have to do all the breeding.”

61 Van Dalen takes the male pollen off the raspberries and Driscoll’s, a California-based berry seller, tells him which varieties to crossbreed with to make a new berry. After making the berry, it is sent to Driscoll’s to see if the company wants more.

“We’ve been doing that for quite a few years,” Van Dalen said. “Now I’m kind of taking over for that.”

Van Dalen doesn’t yet have a dream job in mind for once he finishes college.

All he knows is he wants to be doing plant science outdoors.

“Something to do in that field,” VanDalen said. “I really enjoy being outside and hunting and fishing. I guess I’ve never had a dream job of doing. It’s just a dream to be out there, in any kind of field studying agronomy.”

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Burnt Ends brings the barbecue

The menu’s burnt ends are one of the most popular items at Lynden’s Burnt Ends, which will set up shop at the Northwest Washington Fair this year. (Courtesy photo/Dylan S. Green)

Three kinds of meat to be offered by Lynden barbecue joint, including their specialty burnt ends A wide variety of food vendors set up shop at the fair, some local and some not-so-

local.

In the case of Burnt Ends, it doesn’t get much more local for a purveyor. Located just down Kok Road behind the Northwest Washington Fairgrounds, Burnt Ends will bring its barbecue stylings to the fair this year for the first time.

Chef Oleg Vetkov, who opened the restaurant with fellow chef Gabriel Claycamp a year ago, said Burnt Ends will be bringing three different meats to the fair, offering twoand three-meat combo meals

as well as sandwiches.

These meats will be pulled pork, pulled chicken and the restaurant’s namesake: burnt ends.

“The burnt ends are kind of the Rolls-Royce of the meat options that we have,” Vetkov said.

A brisket is comprised of two muscles: the point and the flat. The point is the fat end and the flat is the lean end, and these two ends must be separated. The burnt ends come from the point, which

is smoked before the burnt ends are cut out of the “honeycomb.”

“It’s also got really good intermuscular fat, so it holds up well to cooking for longer periods of time. It’s just got a way better mouth feel, even opposed to your classic Texas brisket,” Vetkov said.

He said he expects burnt ends to be the most popular item sold from its spot at the fair.

Vetkov isn’t sure if the restaurant will be able to bring a

Ferndale Record fryer, as he is still figuring out how that might work. Burnt Ends has catering events scheduled alongside the fair, meaning it will be a busy week.

Burnt Ends was founded in August 2018 by Vetkov and Claycamp. Vetkov is a graduate of Mount Baker High School and Bellingham Technical College, where he had his culinary training. He worked at Seattle fine-dining destination Canlis before returning to Whatcom County and starting Salt, Pepper and Oil, a cook-it-yourself ingredient delivery service.

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Burnt Ends will offer several meat options at the fair. (Courtesy photo/Dylan S. Green)

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Parking lots, shuttle buses — more than ever

The fair’s Dean Lenssen shows where a sign will be placed at 10th and Front streets marking a shuttle bus stop.

(Calvin Bratt/Lynden Tribune)

As paid parking around the fairgrounds shrinks, this free system rises in value As Lynden rapidly fills in all available building surfaces with housing, less and less open space is left for parking cars.

It is a development that Northwest Washington Fair management has been seeing for a while, also in the territory around the fairgrounds between Front Street and Kok Road.

Families and property owners who for years allowed parking of cars — for a price, of course — on their open land each mid-August can do so no longer. Or fewer can.

But there is, and always has been, a solution.

“The good news is there’s a lot of free parking around here that’s convenient,” said fair manager Jim Baron.

What’s that?

The free space Baron speaks of is the total of many church parking lots scattered around Lynden. During fair week each year, these are made available for the fair to use, paired up with a fleet of shuttle buses running on about a 20-minute continuous rotation.

The system has been in

operation for decades, but it sounds more attractive now than ever.

There are seven participating churches, offering their lots: City Bible, United Methodist, Bethel Christian Reforemed, St. Joseph Catholic, Faith Reformed, Third Christian Reformed and First Christian Reformed. Two routes are Red and Blue, and they only overlap at First CRC. From 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. two double-coach buses just keep doing the two routes, with their pickup/dropoff point a stretch of Stremler Drive directly adjoining the fairgrounds.

“They just pull up at Stremler Drive, unload [and pick up passengers], and turn around and do their route,”

said Dean Lenssen, who heads up this detail of fair week.

Dale and Femmie Rutgers are the couple that continues to line up bus drivers and make sure all is ready.

On land that the fair owns, it contracts out to community groups to run the parking there, charging a rate that is consisent, Lenssen said. Other private land owners can do as they choose.

There is also paid parking on about half of the Fairway Center parking lot across Front Street, using the volunteer labor of local service clubs and their recruits. Be sure to honor the signs there guarding a fair share of the parking for normal paying customers of businesses.

— Calvin Bratt

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