Park and ride
Park and ride
CANFIELD — The Canfield Fair will be providing a courtesy shuttle service to the fairgrounds from Canfield High School today, Sunday and Monday.
The shuttles will run continuously from noon until midnight for the remainder of the fair.
Drop off and pickup will be at Gate 5 and the buses will wait about 15 to 20 minutes or until the shuttle is full.
A perfect first
CANFIELD — This year’s vegetable building made history at the Canfield Fair with the display by Sperdute Farms, 206 Kildoo Road, New Castle, Pa.
The commercial display by Sperdute’s earned best of show and a perfect score of 70 out of 70. The colorful display, which included 12 baskets each filled with eight quarts of veggies, was the first to earn a perfect score, said fair officials.
David Sperdute said his family has been entering the Canfield Fair commercial display competition for eight years. “The publicity provided by the fair has been beneficial to our produce business,” said Sperdute, whose family has been in business for more than 50 years.
All the produce entered by the Sperdutes will be donated to Second Harvest Food Bank.
The vegetable building also houses some veggie oddities, the largest veggies and a watermelon that weighs 51.78 pounds.
Holy baby cow
CANFIELD — Kylie McLean, 9, of Salem witnessed her first calf birth at the Canfield Fair in the Rhodes’ stable on Friday.
McLean’s grandfather Ron Rhodes said baby Brandi is the third calf he has had born at a fair.
The Rhodes family, of Salem, has been displaying at fairs for 55 years.
This year alone, they have displayed at four Ohio fairs and are thinking of going to Harrisburg, Pa., to make it five, said Rhodes.
Brandi was born about 2:30 p.m. in the dairy cow stables to her 6-year-old mother, Bubbles.
Ron’s son, Jason Rhodes, said they hadn’t weighed the small brown and white Guernsey, but she probably weighs between 50 and 60 pounds.
Fairgoers gathered around the stall saying, “how precious” and “that’s so cute” as Brandi’s wobbly legs tried to stand next to her mother.
Rhodes said both mother and baby were in good health and said he would be bottle feeding Brandi on Friday night.
Feeding from a bottle is preferred because if the calf nurses from its mother one time, it is difficult to switch to a bottle, said Rhodes.
“I do this for my [seven] grandkids,” said Rhodes, of the reason he attends four fairs per summer.