{"id":28436,"date":"2012-09-03T07:21:36","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T12:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/?p=28436"},"modified":"2012-09-03T15:20:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T20:20:50","slug":"156th-vw-county-fair-winding-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2012\/09\/03\/156th-vw-county-fair-winding-down\/","title":{"rendered":"156th VW County Fair winding down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Today, Labor Day, is the last official day of the 156th edition of the Van Wert County Fair, following a wet, but eventful weekend that included Sunday\u2019s Demolition Derby and Saturday\u2019s rodeo presented by Hat Creek Arena and Cheerleader Invitational, held this year in the Lincolnview High School gymnasium because of the threat of rain.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_28437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-28437\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-VW-County-Fair-5th-day-Vorst.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-28437 \" style=\"border: 1px solid black\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/2012-VW-County-Fair-5th-day-Vorst.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"502\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-28437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Junior Fair Queen Katie Vorst also shows she&#039;s a Showman of Showmen, here shown exhibiting a turkey during the popular Junior Fair event. (Jan Dunlap\/Van Wert independent)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Also held Sunday was the ever-popular Junior Fair Showman of Showmen competition, which had a royal finish when Junior Fair Queen Katie Vorst won the event this year. The Showman of Showmen competition is one where livestock exhibitors must show animals in several classes, not only the ones they brought to the fair. It makes for a challenging &#8212; and sometimes amusing &#8212; competition as steer exhibitors, for example, struggle with rabbits and pigs, and swine exhibitors work with dairy feeder calves and poultry.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and others packed the Lincolnview gymnasium for the cheerleader competition, which featured squads from all over northwest Ohio, including cheerleaders from Van Wert County schools and \u201call star\u201d squads from Kim Hohman\u2019s DanceWorks and other private studios.<\/p>\n<p>Fairgoers also had the chance to see some rip-snortin\u2019 bull riding and other rodeo events Saturday evening in front of the grandstand. On Sunday, junk vehicles took over for the bulls as the Fair Demolition Derby took place at the grandstand.<\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s activities include demonstrations by dancers from Kim Hohman\u2019s DanceWorks (noon-1:30 p.m.) and Pam\u2019s School of Dance (2-3:30 p.m.) in the Entertainment Tent. The Open Sheep Show will be held this morning, while the Senior Fair Dairy Show will be held this afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Performances in the Gospel Pavilion include The Master\u2019s Own, Trinity and Freedom, while grandstand events include thoroughbred\/quarter horse racing in the afternoon, beginning at 1 and featuring the Van Wert County Fair 1 1\/8 Derby; and the MICHINDOH Truck &amp; Tractor Pull this evening, starting at 7.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Today, Labor Day, is the last official day of the 156th edition of the Van Wert County Fair, following a wet, but eventful weekend that included Sunday\u2019s Demolition Derby and Saturday\u2019s rodeo presented by Hat Creek Arena and Cheerleader Invitational, held this year in the Lincolnview High School gymnasium because of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 16:32:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}