ALASKA HIGHWAY NEWS THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 2022 | VOL. 78 NO. 34
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Amos Harder blows black smoke from his 1953 Oliver 88 during the 6000-6900 tractor pull class at the 75th North Peace Fall Fair, Aug, 21, 2022. Harder finished the class in third. See more pictures from this year’s Fall Fair by visiting our website at alaskahighwaynews.ca
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Matt Preprost editor@ahnfsj.ca The 75th anniversary of the North Peace Fall Fair proved to be in a class of its own last weekend. The weather was warm, the entry lists filled in record numbers, and the competition friendlier than ever before. An estimated 5,000 to 5,500 people young and old came through the gates in North Pine Aug. 19 to 21, from families that have been coming to the fair over five generations since its founding, to several new exhibitors who came to take part in their first-ever fair showing this year. “It exceeded my expectations, it really did,” said fall fair society president Bruce Christensen. “The chairpeople all did a wonderful job and a lot their families were helping out as well.” “We were lucky to get a beautiful weekend in.” The highlights of the exhibition were many, among them young Molly Miller, 8, of Rose Prairie, who won a Grand Championship award for her three-year-old hair sheep, Red Tips, on the first day of the fair. Miller said she halter broke Red Tips when she was just a little bottle baby, and spent two weeks getting ready for her first time taking part in the fair. “They’re a lot easier to
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Grand Halter Champions Tory Snider and her Appaloosa horse, Molly.
raise,” Miller said of sheep, as compared to cows and goats. At the light horse ring, Tory Snider had a fine showing and won Grand Halter Champion honours with her beautiful, 16-year-old Appaloosa horse, Molly. Snider has been coming to the fair ever since her first costume class when she was two years old. Now 22, she
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and Molly have been riding partners for the last 11 years. “We’ve done so much learning and growing together, having been riding for that long. She’s made me a better rider, through many tears sometimes,” Snider said. “The deal is she’s got to stick around until I have kids that she can pack around at the fall fair, and
just continue that tradition.” Five generations of the Snider family have been coming to the fall fair here since it started. Tory’s mother, Jodi, says she still has the hooked rug her great-great grandma entered in the very first fair. And she fondly remembers growing up at the fair when her parents were showing, and her great-grandparents and grandparents would bring along a picnic lunch of fried chicken, potato salad and homemade pie. The annual feast has carried on through the generations of her family for decades, and this year even included brisket. “It’s funny because people who have shown with me for a long time, they know. They’re like, ‘What day is fried chicken day?’ And they come with plates and forks in hand,” she said, adding the fair feels like home with many eagerly awaiting its arrival each August to show off their work to friends and family. “For us, it is a very safe place to let your little kids run. You know, come back to the trailer eventually, check in with mom and dad, we’ll be here. Before kids had cell phones, you kicked them free and they had a great day at the fair,” she said. “This fair is very important to our family, and a lot of families, especially farming families like us that grew up at the fair.” Continued on A11&A12
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