Pageant information, rules, and entry forms are now available for the 2010 Little Miss Shippensburg Community Fair and 2010 Miss Shippensburg Community Fair Queen Pageants.

Please note that the Fair Queen Pageant Rules have been slightly modified this year to better comply with the rules of the Pennsylvania State Fair Queen Program.

2010 Fair Queen Pageant

Pageant Rules & Information
2010 Fair Queen Entry Form (PDF)

2010 Little Miss Pageant

Pageant Rules & Information
2010 Little Miss Entry Form (PDF)

The entry deadline for both pageants is May 21, 2010, so don’t delay sending in your entry forms!

Vendor and registration information is now available for the Craft Show at the 2010 Shippensburg Community Fair.  This year’s Craft Show will be held on Wednesday, July 28, 2010 from 9 AM to 4 PM.

We’ve done our best to listen to the feedback of vendors and craft show visitors to improve the show even more!  We’ve gone out and promoted the show at other craft events and already have quite a few vendors signed up!  We expect that this year’s craft show will be even larger than last year’s!

If you are interested in being a vendor at the Craft Show, please follow the links below:

• Craft Show Vendor Information
• Vendor Registration Form (PDF – 163 KB)

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…

• 2009 Exhibitor’s Premium Book (FULL version)
  Adobe PDF – 1.86 MB
   
• 2009 Home Products Premium Book
  Adobe PDF – 1.62 MB
   
• 2009 Livestock Premium Book
  Adobe PDF – 424 KB
   
• 2009 Dairy Premium Book
  Adobe PDF – 251 KB
   

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:

• 2009 Truck & Tractor Pull Schedule
• 2009 Horse Show Program

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:

• Fair Queen and Little Miss Pageant pages
• Event schedules, including exhibitor schedules
• Exhibitor department pages, including those for Home Products, Livestock, Dairy, and Horses
• 2008 fair exhibit results
• Many more images and design elements will be added to existing pages

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!