The Seventh Annual Churchville Lions Country Fair will be held Saturday and Sunday, August 16 and 17, at Churchville Park at West Buffalo Street and Park Road in the Village of Churchville. The event includes a parade, which kicks off the fair; musical entertainment, a raffle, a pie-baking contest, tractor pulls, a silent auction, an antique sale, antique tractors, games for kids, arts and crafts, food, a petting zoo, a health fair, a blacksmithing exhibition, a trained and working oxen team, llamas on display, on-going threshing and bailing demonstrations, a lumberjacking demonstration and fireworks. The Health Fair will run from noon to 3 p.m. both days and will offer free blood pressure and glucose screening, as well as other health-related information. Chairperson Regina Arlauckas says, "The 2003 Churchville Lions Country Fair is going to be a great family event again this year. We have taken our theme of the country fair with the antique tractors and farm equipment and worked to expand upon it by adding the pie-baking contest, horseshoe tournament and demonstrations of blacksmithing, lumberjacking and oxen teams. "The Antique Show and Sale at the Cobblestone building is also a new event this year, and other than the 5K race, it is the first time we are really moving away from the fairgrounds and using other parts of the Churchville community," she said. "We have more food vendors than I can ever recall, and some great new musical acts. We've worked since last fall to plan and prepare for this weekend, and the committee has done a great job of pulling it all together," the fair chairperson said. "We are trying another new thing this year by printing a program and a map of the fairgrounds, so people can find their favorite vendors easily, and have a time schedule of all our various events. I hope people will remember to stop at either the parking entrance or the information booth to pick up their program." |
