Big Lock is back

Big Lock is back

CANFIELD

The Canfielf Fair will continue this year with something it first brought to guests last year: the Big Lock, a 12-foot tall steel rooster in front of the Fine Arts building to which people can attach personalized locks to commemorate relationships with loved ones.

Fairgoers are invited to decorate a lock at home or to purchase and decorate a lock at the Fine Arts building.

Fair representatives say that people attached more than 1,400 locks onto the structure last year.

Commemorative postcards, designed for the 2015 lock project, are available for $1 or free to anyone who purchases a lock.

Livestock sale today

CANFIELD

The fair’s annual Livestock Sale will take place at 5:30 p.m. today and Friday at the Market Livestock Office east of the Coliseum No. 8 in the Junior Fair area.

Rabbit, lamb and swine will be on sale today. Poultry and beef will be sold Friday.

Second Harvest Food Bank of the Mahoning Valley invites community members to donate food from the sale.

Livestock available for donation includes market beef, hogs, poultry-broilers, turkeys, goats and lambs.

The mission of Second Harvest is to solicit, store and distribute food to hunger-relief organizations that feed people in Columbiana, Mahoning and Trumbull counties.

For more information about donating, visit www.mahoningvalleysecondharvest.org or call 330-792-5522.

For more information about the sale, call 330-533-4107.

Vote for the best

CANFIELD

Fairgoers can participate in “Best of Fair,” a contest in which participants can vote for their favorite fair food, rides and games.

Those who wish to participate must log in to their Facebook account, go to bestoffair.canfieldfair.com, and then vote for their favorites in each category among the hundreds of vendors that are listed.

“Best of Fair” is sponsored by Fred Martin Ford.

1870 hearse displayed

CANFIELD

This year’s fair features a new addition to the Western Reserve Village: a horse-drawn hearse.

Ray and Diane Kyle, of the Stewart Kyle Funeral Home in Hubbard, transported the 1870 vehicle to the Carriage Museum in the historic village. It will be on display through the end of the fair Monday.

The hearse was purchased by Ray’s father, Wilbur Kyle from a horse barn in Hadley, Pa in 1950. It features original curtains, wood work, nickel-plated brass accompaniments and steel-rimmed wheels.

The vehicle has other local connections: It was manufactured in Ravenna at the Merts and Riddle Coach and Hearse Co.