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FALL PAIR SUPPLEMENT Wednesday September 1KZ Page I Director recalls childhood visits to Georgetown and other fairs My treasured memories By WELLSTEAD Fair board Among my earliest hippy memories of child hood are hose centred around Ihe country fairs of southern Ontario And when you treasure those memories as I do I Imagine that some people do u I have done they Join local Agricultural Society sponsors of air In an effort to pre serve whit they remem ber as good tor pre sent and future generat ions Fall Fairs fain may not have been tbe best part of tbe good old days but in retrospect for this at least they certainly seem to have contributed a great deal to some of my best warm feelings of In the 1930s and I recall the of attending a number of different airs with my family and Included them of course among them of was Georgetown We attended many fairs living in the one we at tended most was Hock ton billed as The Worlds Fair was always held on Thanksgiving weekend In October and I can tbe cold temperatures sometimes frost or an early morning dusting of snow the large crowds the thrill of seeing my father directing traffic that busy highway and the Joy of visiting with my moth er and grandparents large midway ani mals and especially the sulky races Oh bow 1 grew to love those SULKY RACES For me every fair should have sulky races Georgetown Fair used to have some of tbe beat I can remember corning to Georgetown a small child first to Queen Street for a brief visit with my grandparents men down to the park There was a much bug grandstand In those days I remember big crowds rows of babies In baby show the smells of tbe confection booths and the thrill of standing by tbe fence watching six or possibly eight sulky heats I am told that Georgetowns sandy track was one of the best around and when I moved here in and learned that racing had been discontinued a few years ago was very disappointed Perhaps Is why Georgetown fair Is pre senting greyhound races this year to try to capture some of the tun and excitement of racing enjoy greyhound racing The dogs are really mar vellous animals and someday maybe if tbe fair continues the may see Its way clear to reintroduce nil racing Anyway 1 hope so We attended many fairs when I was growing up 1 can recall Fair Erin I think I fair In Strcetsvllle Certainly I recall seeing some grey hounds run on the track at Strcetsvllle Park many years ago but that might have been a summer event Im not sure Any way it was my very first encounter with racing dogs and I was very Impressed My dad was a police officer with the That why wo moved from town to town and perhaps part of tbe son why we attended so many fain throughout tbe years That and fact that we enjoyed them STEAM ERA My father and mother treasured the memories of their younger days in Streetsvtlle and m page Register In Person Only For CLASSES In CROCHET Monday Afternoons Evenings KNITTING Thursday Evenings Classes will begin the week of September 20th TOWN CENTRE Royal City altv Limited 8775296 846Q800 Urge kept bant a Vt sen tat la toots aslant tat Is GO kNsMs tasri las ITT UM FALL FAIR VALUES PC Ml warn mm hams him tamri a Fin all him kfUJONDOLLAHVEW Metis Cnntry Dab bur bsenoaicb brag sen bust brick priced if rtsrssucbM Pint Ktrby Mr vHrarttiat Km Man as tor let far tale Cbskaslcsratt ptBl mils sal Cshw it ITT BIN Si si bstuSrf tart I lews tacatat Ma as II ski wftn mm raw Ota- m i wttn a sunt Si In 9291 IB ts SO I ftrtstacn LT l J thee sWe car fsnotaawctswfCattBSMCirrlstfir Mrs lata I stats 2 MsTSWbtsfewaTstnji reu VkHrfai baa laras at bars tar Ma try ssal testa- last sartt at taapatUHWtsftltM JUtha Cat tin MM anal