Photos and brief bios of the 16 contestants running for the title of 2009 Miss Shippensburg Community Fair Queen have been posted on our web site. Please click here to meet the candidates!
This year’s Fair Queen Pageant will be held on Monday, July 20 at 7:30 PM on the fairgrounds stage. We hope to see you there!
Craft vendors who wish to participate in the annual Shippensburg Community Fair Craft Show now have until June 30, 2009 to submit their entry form and payment.
The Craft Show is a long-running tradition at the Shippensburg Community Fair. It features dozens of vendors demonstrating and selling their wares. The show will be held from 9 AM to 4 PM on Wednesday, July 22, 2009.
For more information on the Craft Show, or to download the registration form, please click here.
Today we are pleased to announce our entertainment lineup for the 2009 Shippensburg Community Fair.
This year’s on-stage entertainment features great groups like The Fabulous Hubcaps, Chris Woodward, and Hotel California. Advance tickets for The Fabulous Hubcaps and Hotel California will be available online beginning May 1st.
Click here to view the 2009 Entertainment Schedule.
Today we posted the 2009 versions of the Exhibitor’s Premium Book. This is the guide that fair exhibitors use to enter their exhibits in the correct classes and competitions.
The premium book is available in several different flavors…
Printed versions of the 2009 Premium Books will made available in limited quantities at locations around Shippensburg by mid-April.
Beginning today, the programs and schedules for the 2009 Truck & Tractor Pulls, as well as the 2009 Shippensburg Community Fair Horse Show are now available.
This will be an exciting year for both groups… the Horse Show is celebrating its 50th Anniversary with some new additions to the program, and this year’s East Coast Series Tractor Pull will be held on Saturday, July 4th, a great way to spend Independence Day!
Take a look at the links below for details:
Pageant information, rules, and entry forms are now available for the 2009 Little Miss Shippensburg Community Fair and 2009 Miss Shippensburg Community Fair Queen Pageants.
2009 Fair Queen Pageant
Pageant Rules & Information
2009 Fair Queen Entry Form (PDF)
2009 Little Miss Pageant
Pageant Rules & Information
2009 Little Miss Entry Form (PDF)
The entry deadline for both pageants is May 15, 2009, so don’t delay sending in your entry forms!
Today we’re excited to introduce our newly-redesigned web site for the Shippensburg Community Fair! The new site is made for wider screens, is easier to navigate and is more “simplistic” overall.
Although we’ve worked hard and listed to your suggestions while creating the new web site, we’re not done yet. There is still work to do in the coming weeks to complete some pages, improve some sections, and give the new web site the fit-and-finish it needs.
Here’s a quick list of pages that are not quite finished, but will be completed in the next several days and weeks:
In the coming weeks, we will be releasing information, schedules, premium books, entry forms, and more for the 2009. Please continue to check back for updates posted to this blog.
As always, if you have any comments or suggestions for the new web site, please contact us and let us know!
Several officers from the Shippensburg Community Fair attended the semi-annual Zone 4 Meeting held at the Kutztown Grange Hall on Wednesday, October 29. The zone meetings are organized by the Pennsylvania State Association of County Fairs (PSACF), which serves as the governing body for all 117 state fairs.
Members from our fair attend these meetings regularly. The purpose of them is to collaborate and share ideas, learn about new state laws and budgetary issues, and to plan for changes in the upcoming year. The PSACF also hosts an annual State Fair Convention held in Hershey, PA in January that features special seminars, roundtables, an open vendor floor, and state fair queen program. The convention is a great resource that all fairs can use to improve.
Zone meetings usually begin with a wonderful, home-cooked meal and end with an association business meeting featuring committee reports, fair convention information, and special guests from the PA Department of Agriculture and other areas of interest.
A special thanks to the Kutztown Fair for hosting this meeting, and to everyone at Kutztown Grange Hall for their wonderful hospitality!
Welcome to the new Shippensburg Community Fair Blog, which we will use to post official news and announcements, as well as information and thoughts on offseason events and more!
So why the blog you may ask? Well, creating news releases and announcements on the site wasn’t the easiest task up to this point. We had to create a brand new page and find a way to efficiently and effectively link to that page. Not only was this tedious for us, but visitors could not go back later and easily find this type of article once it got bumped off the homepage or wherever it was linked from. The blog solves this problem since it allows us to organize posts into categories and also allows you, the visitor, to organize posts by date or by searching for them.
In addition, we’ve been looking for a place where we can post ideas and thoughts that aren’t really considered “press release worthy”. For example, we’ll be posting information on how the fair operates in the off-season, meeting information, how you can contribute, etc. in the upcoming months and the blog is a great place to do this.
Although it can be difficult during the off-season, we’ll do our best to update the blog frequently with items that may be of interest. Many people do not realize that the planning of each annual fair is a year-long process, so there are always things going on, even in the middle of winter.
As always, if you have an idea or suggestion, please drop us a line. Whether, you see something that you like or don’t like, or if you want to see more of something, we always love to hear your feedback so we can make it even better. Feel free to leave comments on posts as well so that your thoughts can be heard by others.
Thanks for reading!
Jamie Rhine
Asst. Secretary/Treasurer
Technology Coordinator