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Katherine Baumgartner: Katherine is the daughter of Peter and Erin Baumgartner of Bainbridge. She

is a senior at Kenston High School and is involved in the marching band and concert winds band along with “KGAP”, Kenston Gaming and Pop Culture. She is also a member of Girl Scout troop #71396, active in her church, and has volunteered at Burton Century Village, Bainbridge Library, and Rescue Village. Katherine has been a member of Giggles n’ Stitches for six years and is the president of the club this year. She has represented Geauga County at the Ohio State Fair for her sewing project. Katherine has been employed by CVS Pharmacy as a clerk since May of 2013.

Sidney Cala: Sidney is the daughter of Kimberly and Charles Farone from Huntsburg. She is a senior at Cardinal

High School and Auburn Career Center where she is a student in the Teaching Professions Pathway class, working towards a four-year college major in early childhood development. She also belongs to Drug Free Clubs of American, the Cardinal Silks Flag line, and Students Against Destructive Decisions. Sidney has volunteered at the Humane Society and TLC Preschool, and has donated items to Women Safe and the Painesville Family Resource Center. In her 11 years as a 4-H member, she has belonged to two clubs, Geauga Prime Time and Flockmasters, and has shown pigs and poultry. She is employed as a farm hand at Quail Ridge Performance Horses and baby-sits.

Anna Montazzoli: Anna is the daughter of Liz and Todd Montazzoli and attends Kenston High School

where she has participated in track and basketball. She has been in Geauga County 4-H since she was nine and has shown rabbits, chickens, ducks, pygmy goats, and lambs. Anna also shows her lambs at the Ohio State Fair, where she won third place for showmanship last year. She has served in every officer role and is currently the president of Junior Fair Board, Secretary of The Pygmy Connection, and a member of Junior Leaders. Anna enjoyed working at Metzenbaum this summer through the Geauga Growth Partnership. She is also a talented pianist, playing for over 12 years and enjoys assisting the sick and disabled through music.

Meghan O’Reilly: Meghan is the daughter of Amysue and Kevin O’Reily of Parkman. She is a senior

at Notre Dame - Cathedral Latin High School where she is involved in the Marching Band and Tech Club. Outside of school she is very involved in 4-H on the county and state levels. She is vice president of Junior Leaders, Treasurer of Flockmasters, and Secretary of Breeders and Feeders 4-H clubs. For the past three years she has served as a Geauga County 4-H camp counselor. Currently she is secretary of the Geauga County Junior Fair Board. On the State level, Meghan has served as an Ohio 4-H State Ambassador for two years and is currently serving a two-year term on the Ohio State Junior Fair Board as the Farm Bureau representative. Meghan graduated in the 2016 youth Leadership Geauga class. When she has free time, she enjoys spending it with her friends.

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barbecue sauce served in a big see-through cup. The first day it was offered, the concession actually ran out of pulled pork and they have since been serving it for over a decade to hungry fairgoers everywhere they go.

In Minnesota, fair attendees can enjoy a dessert salami - chocolate, butter, almonds and walnuts rolled into a salami shape and sliced. Other fun and unusual fare at the Minnesota State Fair include beer gelato, deep fried breakfast on a stick, a gluten-free beer battered bratwurst, schnitzel strips and jell-o salad ice cream.

The Kansas State Fair’s answer to a freezer pop is a pickle pop, briny frozen pickle juice that pairs well with the region’s famous barbecue. At North Carolina’s annual state fair, you can find a variation of this known as Koolickles, pickles soaked in the sugary kids’ beverage, Kool Aid.

Massachusetts doesn’t force you to decide between funnel cakes and candy. They dip jelly beans in batter and deep fry them, while the Wisconsin State Fair will give you an Elvis on a Stick, a deep fried banana battered peanut butter cup with bacon.

You don’t have far to go to get chocolate covered bacon on a stick. Also known as a muddy pig, these treats can be found at The Ohio State Fair. They are available at other fairs as well, but Ohio’s are distinct as they are also gilded with candied cherries.

The Minnesota State Fair (a.k.a. The Great Minnesota Get-Together) serves everything from candy apples to camel meat on a stick. To transform an iconic Italian dish into a portable novelty, spaghetti is mixed into a meatball, which is then cooked, battered, fried, skewered and rolled in marinara sauce.

The only things that seems not to have been invented yet are tasty things to soothe the poor stomachs holding all this wacky food. Beer battered deep fried Tums, or perhaps a deep fried double Nexium cheeseburger wrapped in pretzel batter would be a good choice. How about Alka-Seltzer coated in cheese and fried on a stick or a nice Prilosec pop to help you cool off? Considering all the unusual dishes available, they would all undoubtedly be best sellers at American fairs.

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It’s fair season, time to expand your palate - or test your

gag reflex - at the concession stands. If it can be dipped in batter or put on a stick, someone is probably trying to sell it on

a fairground somewhere. Cotton candy, corn dogs and candy apples once ruled the midway at the local fair, but today’s fair visitors want food that’s a bit more exotic and the combinations seem to get more elaborate and outrageous every year. From health-defying treats like fried dough injected with Pepsi, to stomach-churning chocolate-dipped scorpions, the midway’s new jaw-dropping sideshow is the food.

The Iowa State Fair boasts “60 delectable items available on-a-stick,” including the chocolate-covered chunky bacon maple nougat on-a-stick and the tater dog on-a-stick. Even alcohol can be fried when it’s packed in pretzel dough, like the fried beer that can be found at the Texas State Fair.

At the California State Fair you can dine on a python kebab - snake meat seasoned with Worchester sauce, liquid smoke, Old Bay Seasoning and lemon pepper. It’s reputed to taste like chicken but is a far more adventurous choice than fowl. This fair is also the place to get a cheeseburger stuffed with macaroni and cheese and served on a bun composed of two Krispy Kreme donuts. An equally crazy burger is a milk shake burger at the Florida State Fair - a salty-sweet hybrid of a cheeseburger topped with a deep fried ice cream. Then there’s the doughnut burger at the Alabama State Fair which features a quarter-pound hamburger, bacon, cheese and two glazed Krispy Kreme doughnuts in place of a single bun. The monstrosity contains nearly 1,100 calories and 67 grams of fat.

At the Indiana State Fair you can find a savory twist on a hot fudge sundae - a hot beef sundae layered with mashed potatoes, marinated beef, gravy, cheese, corn sprinkles and topped with a cherry tomato. This was thought to be inspired in Miami by the Dade County Fair & Expo’s Pork Parfait, an ice-cream-sundae style concoction of pulled pork, mashed potatoes, and

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The Many Things I do in 4-HBy Jessica Burden

Hi, my name is Jessica Burden, and this is my fourth year in 4-H with the Feathers and Fleece 4-H Club. I have

been my club’s news officer for two years and I am responsible for writing a small article on what we did at each 4-H meeting and submitting it. This is also my first year being on the Geauga County Fashion Board where I’m the secretary and first time on J u n i o r F a i r Board.

A little bit about myself is that I am homeschooled and this will be my sophomore year in high school. I am the oldest girl of six and I enjoy many things such as snowboarding, volleyball, debate, horses, and playing with my siblings. I also really enjoy computers and am considering a career in computer programming or graphic arts. This year I have started working on my congressional award as well. I made two sewing projects, a long purple skirt with a pink top, and I did a project where you try to find an outfit as cheap as possible. I found my western show outfit for 75 percent off the original price and saved $152! Both of these projects w e r e S t a t e q u a l i f i e r s . T h i s y e a r in 4-H I am doing market turkey, market duck, market sheep, fancy chickens, pet r a b b i t a n d sewing.

This is my first year doing market duck and it is now one of my favorite projects. Ducks are so cute and fluffy. Our biggest problem with them was that they love to splash all of their water out of their water bowl so we were constantly refilling it and cleaning out their brooder until I built a swim-proof waterer. Our seven ducks are free-ranged with access to fresh water for drinking and separate water for swimming. They are raised on mostly non-GMO (genetically modified organisms) feed because it is what our family prefers.

This will be my fourth year doing market turkeys. I really enjoy watching them fluff up and strut around the yard. Our turkeys are free-ranged as well and have mostly non-GMO feed and fresh water available at all times. This year we were

really careful with the turkeys and made sure they had a predator-proof pen at night. We learned the hard way when we had six 2-month-old turkeys killed by a predator the year before last.

My lamb’s n a m e s a r e T i g g e r a n d P i g l e t . W e thought that our biggest problem in lambs would be making weight since they are cross breeds and the minimum weight went up this year. We were pretty s u r p r i s e d when we weighed them at the end of July and all of them made weight except for one, who

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Tim and Lori Frank started their business as a part-time mom and pop septic cleaning service, growing over the past 50 years. Today Tim Frank Septic Tank Cleaning Co. is a full service corporation with eight full-time and two part-time employees.

The third generation of Frank’s are continuing the family tradition of great service along with an educated and loyal workforce that has helped their business to expand.

While visiting the Great Geauga County Fair, stop at their big white tent which has been located on the West midway at Bainbridge Bend for over 10 years. Say hello to Tom and Carol Frank and the crew who are there to educate the public on septic systems and care. They have answers on the dos and don’ts of maintaining home septic systems and are available to answer any of your questions.

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Established in the year 1823, the Geauga County Fair has been a renowned icon for the community for almost two

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foundation of what the Geauga Fair is happens to be a group called 4-H. This group houses the people responsible for ensuring that everything runs smoothly during the week of the festivities. They tend to the many duties that involve getting the grounds ready for the fair to take place. That could include anything ranging from getting the animals ready for the shows that soon transpire, to getting the cows penned up for the day, so that they may be viewed by the judges. Furthermore, 4-H is also in charge of taking care of the community whenever the opportunity arises. Seeing them take care of more than just the fair is not something of a rarity. They can be spotted all over the county taking care of crops that need to be nurtured, or getting the funds needed to renovate a building or even a city block if they have to. This is just a mere scratch to the surface when it comes to them, as they are not too far behind when it comes to improving the community they reside in. On the surface, the fair may be just a park of amusement to certain people, but without the groups itself, many people would find themselves puzzled without the opportunities they would have gained just from working for the fair. People would lose the ability to find a good job, students wouldn’t have access to the scholarships they may earn from working to improve the fair, and most people who are together now may not even have met had it not been for the fair and the clubs that manage it. The same can be said for the people that tend to all the horses, cows and pigs in the area, all the arts and crafts that have to be looked at as well, and even the dirt track that is out there for the races.

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El Patron Mexican Grill & Cantina 15585 West High St • Middlefield • 440-632-0040

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Middlefield location only. Exp. Sept.14, 2016.El Patron Mexican Grill & Cantina

15585 West High St • Middlefield • 440-632-0040

52 Dinners & 2 Soft Drinks

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Patio Now Open

Everyday Specials-Call for Details

Medium SizedLime or Strawberry

Margaritasonly

$5.50

Mexican Beer- One Bucket of Dos Equis

$10

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