35 days to opening of Canfield Fair, new attractions

For some people, cinnamon rolls, cold lemon shake, sausage sandwiches are the best part of the Canfield Fair.

This year, the fair leaders are working hard to introduce another aspect of the 172-year-old Mahoning Valley tradition: you

"The theme of this year is" You are a Canfield fair ", Dave Dickey of the Fair president presented at a media event on Tuesday. "Would you like a horse, or would you like these demonstrations, do you like the tractor, all of you will join the Canfield fair."

The exhibition will be held on August 29th and will continue until September. In addition to the famous county-level exhibition in Ohio, this year's show will introduce some new features.

For the first time in decades, a new carnival cycling company appeared in the show. David Grimm, Florida 's business development director, said Reithoffer Shows Inc. promised to launch a new range of spectacular vehicles.

The new rides include the 1 million dollar Italian roller coaster that was exhibited for the first time at the exhibition for many years.

There is another Dutch Wheel, a 120-foot basket wheel made by the Netherlands. The 90 - foot Ferris wheel, "Tornado", Reithoffer boasts that this is the only ride in the country, a carousel for children, a musical tour, "wacky worm" a roller coaster for children.

According to Grimm, Reithoffer will offer 45 to 50 rides, the rest will stop around the playground and wait for a longer ride than most rides.

"I am very pleased to be able to take part in this year and bring our rides and expertise to the show," he said.

There is also a new dice racing car at this year's show, and horse riding competitions will be held on the circuit every Friday, Saturday and Monday. Elwood Woolman, fair director in charge of horse racing, said that this increased the number of recent draft horse and underage games increased.

Popular events from the previous year will also reappear, including Friday's dismantling derby, Saturday's champion truck and tractor, Sunday faith and family's day, live music and Christian artist, opening performance by Matthew West. The theme is K. Nielsen and "I am them". Monday's live entertainment will be Toby Keith, a country music artist

In other news, Fair Director's Craig Myers provided the latest news on capital movements to finance the new Youth Expo / Expo facility launched last year.

Fairleader plans to move the new facility south east of the fair ground and move the local attractions (antique tractor, old McDonald's barn, open sheep and goat barn) to the northeast of Junior Fair.

Let's face the reality that today's exhibitions and historical exhibitions share a common goal: to promote sales and attract new customers. However, if you are familiar with the art fair scene, art fairs are held every month around the world, but you can see that there are no new people on the spot. The current art fair model in New York is very static and will attract only a limited group of visitors from the art world. In addition, most of these visitors will look around and take pictures. Gallery staff and artists can talk only once at a time and tend to threaten newcomers who do not know which artworks are more important or necessary in the gallery.

Did you know that the pumpkin show is not necessarily part of the Canfield fair? It began in 1962 when this year made the 57th pumpkin show. This is due to Homer Schaeffer and Ray Carr's thought that Canfield Fair needs a pumpkin show similar to the Circleville Pumpkin Show in southern Columbus. In the first year, the winning pumpkin was planted with a weight of only 85 pounds and John Gavin. Over the years, pumpkin size is gradually increasing. By 1991, the maximum was 544 pounds, and it was planted by Ron and Cathy Moffett who won many championships in the 1990s. Jeríros exceeded the 1,000 pound threshold in 2008, and he won many championships. Another Jerry, Jerry Snyder created a 15, 12 pound record in 2017. This year's winner brought up by Chuck Great House earned 1,381 pounds.