Island County Fair Food Drive for Good Cheer!

Aug 142010

August 14, 2010 Posted by Kathy McLaughlin Add comments

The Island County Fair is sponsoring a Half-Price Thursday event to benefit the Good Cheer Food Bank. Anyone bringing in two items for the food bank will be able to purchase their admission tickets at half price. This offer is valid from 9:00 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. on August 19th.

If the timing on Thursday doesn’t work for you remember that the Good Cheer Food Bank is inviting children and their parents or guardians to dress as a healthy food item and march with them in the Island County Fair Parade, Saturday morning, August 21st. Every costumed adult, teen, and child (along with parent/guardian) in the Good Cheer parade group will receive a free admission pass to the Fair that day, plus a gift certificate for $10 good at Good Cheer Thrift Stores.

Bring some food with you and drop it off at the Good Cheer Food Barrel at the Langley Thrift Store.

Since 1920, the Island County Fair has been held on the south end of Whidbey Island, mostly in Langley. At that time, the County Extension Agent asked all the communities to host a Fair. Only residents of Bayview were willing. A year later it was moved to Langley and a year after that to the schoolgrounds next door to the present Fairgrounds. The first parcel of the Fairgrounds was acquired in 1934 for $300 and consisted of a five-acre chicken ranch.

Over the years they have acquired more land and built more buildings, but the intent of those first fairs still inspires the fairs of today.

It’s all about being an old fashioned county fair!

You can get all the information that you will ever need by following this link to the Island County Fair Website.