TODAY IS DAY TWO OF THE SCHUYLKILL COUNTY FAIR; A Day To Be A Kid Again

PRESS RELEASE –
Today (Tuesday, July 29, 2014) is a day filled with food, fun activities, educational exercises and entertainment. The day starts at 11 AM when the gates open to the public. And new this year, everything is open. A new ride company, Goodtime Amusements out of Hellertown, PA is operating the rides same as the fair. The rides and all the other fun and entertainment are yours to be had as a fair goer with one admission price.
If a fair goer comes a little early on Tuesday, he may see the Market Swine show in progress starting at 8 AM. The Alpaca/ Sheep Show have moved to 3 PM. 4-H/FFA members show off their breeding and market animals in front of a seasoned judge, who in their opinion, determine which animals are superior.
Visit with the flyboys of the Tuscarora R.C. Club. Bundle some Bees with the Master Gardner’s. Sit around a campfire with big Owl and learn some Indian Lore. Speaking of stories, have some red to you during Story time presented by the Reading council of Schuylkill County.
Be an Ag Detective and investigate the facts about agriculture. Pick up your detective badge and working papers at the Farming for the Day Tent. Investigate 20 stations set up throughout the fairgrounds.
Then it is off to investigate the stations. Maybe you are more hands on oriented. Travel the fairgrounds collecting and doing agricultural activities where you make a bean book, create the lifecycles apples and pumpkins, learn how corn goes from the tassel to the table and tell the fortunes of livestock animals.
The fun with the Ag Detective doesn’t end there for there are three more parts to the program with the expansion this year. The Ag Detective also comes in a clue format. A participant still used the stations around the fairgrounds, but this time the clues are more deeply hidden in the stations. In the Dairy Barns and Cattle Barns there is another Ag Detective called “Cattleville” where participants search the poster for by products of the cattle industry. In the Horse Barn measurement and converting the “hand” into feet are done to determine how many “hands” as well as feet tall a horse or pony stands.
Lunch under the trees of the Dr. James S. Shadle Nature Center and later take in the educational hands on stations in the center. The Nature Center will be set up with a number of interactive nature learning stations. Make a bracelet learning the cycles of the earth, help build a forest mural, lace a necklace around your neck with earth’s elements that allow all of us live, and twist a tree into shape. Roll a tree out of newspaper and watch it sprout branches. These nature crafts are to be found under the direction Porcupine Pat
The Kids Tent, sponsored by Kiwanis of Schuylkill County, has many activities going on inside and immediately outside the tent area on Kids Day. The Kid’s Area features many creative contests just for this day. The contests include: corn husking, watermelon rolling, sunflower seed spitting. Visit the Kids Tent for times of these contests. In addition to these contests the kid’s area has many more contests in which to participate. Cool off with an ice cream eating contest. Fill your hunger with Pie and Jell-O eating Contest while washing it all down with a Milk Chugging Contest. Exercise off all that you ate with the pedal tractor pull run by the Agriculture Museum or take a more relaxed attitude and watch for the Tractor Parade put on by the Ag Museum at 4:30 as it wonders throughout the fairgrounds. Try your hand at creating daily kids crafts in the Kids tent. All of these contests and more may be found in and around the Kid’s tent.
The Ag Arena Activities will be set up with multiple interactive stations. Participants can get their “Milkstache” on. That is to have their photo take with a milk mustache and a dairy calf for a nominal donation of a dollar. Fun can be had with a “meet and greet” 4-H livestock animals up close and personal without any “gates” between the animal and you. Fiber art will be another station where participants can make wool dryer ball. The wool is tightly fisted together into a ball and placed in a nylon stocking. Participants take home three of these wool balls in the nylon to be washed and put into the dryer. After taking the balls out of the nylon, all moms can use the balls regularly in the dryer instead of using dryer sheets. The clothing will dry with no static build. Some people say that the clothes in the dryer with the dryer balls actually take less time to dry and clothing comes out looking nicer. Use your magic fingers or the sleight of hand to weave yourself a scarf or sash with yarn. Create a child’s toy that simulates the way a tractor works on the principal of the fly wheel with weights and rubber bands. Mold a soy crayon for your next art project. Shrink down your art work into a shrink dink into a charm for a charm pin. Play with play clay from baking soda and cornstarch and sculpture your next project into three dimensions. Wrap a wash cloth into a boo, boo bunny. After you are done, all you will need is a boo, boo and an ice cube to make you all better. Combine cornstarch and some moo glue to make some Gak. Create a batch of play dough in a plastic bag. Then walk over in the Fruit Vegetable Building make some pudding in a bag with the Schuylkill County Dairy Princess and her court. Nibble on some Holstein cookies and wash it down with a refreshing frosty orange banana sipper. So come to the Fair on Kids Day, July 29th and participate in the Ag Arena Activities along with all the many other special activities planned for Kids Day at the Fair.
Don’t miss the Celebrity Showman Contest. Well know celebrities from various professions from all over the county have accepted the challenge of being in the first ever Celebrity Showman Contest. The contest, sure to get a lot of media coverage, will be held at 6PM in the Ag Arena. The celebrities, without dropping any names, come from the news media, political arena and agricultural industry. Although there are some with agricultural backgrounds, it can be safely said that none of them have worked in the livestock end of the agriculture industry. For that reason this will be a challenge. The celebrities will have to exhibit, to the best of their ability, specie of livestock to the audience and professional livestock, showman judge. The celebrities are up for the challenge and it is sure to be an Ag-citement event.
Some big kids will be taking the track at 7PM for the gas truck pulls. Three classes are established for these gas hogs. They are Stock Gas 1 and 2, along with Modified. They will be pulling a new sled from Crouse Sled Rentals out of Newville, PA.
Top off Kids Day with a sweet treat by sampling the desserts of the Schuylkill County Wine Contest at 5 PM and Kids Cooking Contest at 6 PM. Take the treat with you as you go to watch the evening’s entertainment on the M&T Bank stage which is the Twitty Fever Band. They will be performing at 7 and 9PM. Play the whole day at the Schuylkill County Fair and be a Kid again.

Visual Opportunities for Tuesday, July 29, 2014:
 Swine Show
 ID Me, Child Identification Program
 Tuscarora R.C. Club Display
 Bee Bundle
 Big Owl Indian Lore
 Jell-O Eating
 Ice Cream Eating
 Corn Husking
 Ag Arena Activities
 Watermelon Roll
 Tractor Parade
 Sunflower Seed Spitting Contest
 Pie Eating
 Milk Chugging
 Alpaca/sheep Show
 Cooking with Schuylkill County Wine Contest
 Pedal Tractor Pull
 Story time
 Kids Cooking Contest
 Celebrity Showman Contest
 Twitty Fever Band – M&T Stage

Other Notable Visual Opportunities for Tuesday, July 29, 2014:
 Johnny Peers & Muttville Comix
 Peggy Hentz “Red Creek Wildlife Rehabilitation Center”
 Kids Area Activities
 Schuylkill Talent Showcase – Richie Cappel
 Todd Gladfelder, chain saw artist
 Porcupine Pat, Naturalist
 Farming for A Day
 Ag Detective Activities

This and a whole lot more food, fun, competitions, demonstrations, activities, shows and entertainment may be had at the Schuylkill County Fair, July 28 – August 2, 2014.
For all the latest news on the fair visit the fair’s website at www.SchuylkillFair.com or via Facebook and Twitter.
If you are interested in helping with the Schuylkill County Fair call (570) 739.2627 or email kamorgan11@gmail.com. Putting on a county fair is a large undertaking and volunteers are always needed.
Click HERE to view the one-page 2014 Schuylkill County Fair Entertainment flyer.
Click HERE to download the 84-page 2014 Schuylkill County Fair Entertainment Premium Book.
Click HERE to view yesterday’s press release.
Click HERE to view TamaquaArea.com photos from prior years.
Click HERE for directions to the fairgrouds (2270 Fair Road, Summit Station, PA 17979).