WHITEWATER REGION (Cobden) — It’s time to get those exhibits ready for the Cobden Fair. There are several categories to choose from, so don’t be shy, get working on them now.
Exhibits you should have worked on already include vegetables, fruit and farm produce and horticulture.
Exhibits you can work on now — if you haven’t started — include creative arts, around the house, photography, domestic science, and so much more.
There are divisions for all people – youth, adult, members of women’s institute, and girl guides.
The items you work on will be displayed in the youth and senior hall – which is actually the ice surface of the Cobden Curling Rink.
Let’s check out some of these categories: In the vegetables, fruit and farm produce, there are 35 different categories while in the horticulture there are 46 different categories.
There are 16 different categories in the Flowers and Arrangements.
In Domestic Science, you have the opportunity to bake a variety of things, including breads, cookies, squares, pies and tarts, candy; or try canning and preserving, such as strawberry freezer jam, raspberry jam, red pepper jelly and many more — there are actually 25 categories.
You can exhibit your knitting, nine different categories; crocheting, with five categories and sewing, with four categories.
How about in the studio … pencil drawing to watercolours, tole painting and coloured pencil art — there are 10 categories.
What about photography … grab a camera and start shooting … there are 20 different categories.
There is also scrapbooking and card making.
There is also a youth division for those 15 and younger, down to under 4 years old.
The items include drawing a picture in crayon of grandma and grandpa, making a 150th Canada Day flag using stickers; or how about decorating a fly swatter or a pair of your sunglasses, or drawing a picture of your favourite ride at the fair; showing your largest onion or displaying, in a container, six items found on a nature walk; you can decorate a real potato similar to Mr. or Mrs. Potato Head, make a rice crispy square with original shapes; a crayon rubbing of 3 to 5 things from nature; making a Happy Birthday Canada card; designing a beaded necklace, or putting a collection of wild flowers in a vase; or making a list of 10 rules for your parents – typed and mounted; do a freehand pencil sketch; or creating a a craft kit, with sample and materials, to take babysitting.
Pages 9 through 40 in the fair book are all the categories in the youth and senior hall…check them out!! You can go online to Cobden Fair and download the book or go to the ag hall, when it’s opened, and pick up a book.
Drop-off times for the exhibit hall are Wednesday, Aug. 23 between 6 p.m. to 8:30p.m. and Thursday, Aug. 24 from 8:30 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Judging will start at noon on Thursday. The exhibit hall will be open to the public on Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. and Sunday from 10 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Please note, exhibits must be picked up only on Sunday between 4 p.m. and 6 p.m.
Advance Tickets
Remember, advance tickets to the Cobden Fair can be purchased at Rooney’s Variety Store, the agricultural hall and Scotiabank in Cobden.
