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For a 34th consecutive year, the Demolition Derby will lead off the Northwest Washington Fair. On Mon-day, Aug. 13, the Whatcom Demo Der-by Club will put on two shows (1 and 7 p.m.) for visitors to enjoy. Club president Mike Scholten said fans can expect plenty of new attrac-tions in 2012 including a 1980s and newer class and a Four-on-Four Ameri-cans vs. Canadians team event. “The thing I’m most excited for is probably the Americans vs. Canadi-ans event,” Scholten said. “We haven’t done that in a while and it’s a rivalry. It’s a team event and it’s one of the only times in demolition derby when you get to team up like this.” On top of the new events, the typi-cal events from previous years will still be put on. Those events include the Best Looking Car competition, the Big Car Derby in the afternoon and eve-ning, Small Car Figure Eight races in the afternoon and evening, Small Car Demolition Derby in the evening only and the Truck Demolition Derby in the

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evening only. Scholten said he estimates a total of 50 different vehicles will be entered, which will include a combination of cars, trucks and little cars. Most of the cars will be of 1960s and 1970s vintage. For the afternoon show at 1 p.m., there will be three derby heats with about 10 cars per round. The last car standing in each heat will be crowned the winner. Scholten said the cars get pretty banged up in the afternoon, with plen-ty of them not being able to start up again on the spot. Think that stops them from enter-ing in the night round? Think again. Most cars that participate in the afternoon show will be fixed up and ready to go for the later hour. Not all, but the majority are good for one more battle. “The night show sells out every year,” Scholten said. “It’s been going on since 1978. It’s been a long tradition here in the community. We’re anticipat-ing about 30 big cars this year and 20 trucks to enter the derby.” What’s most exciting for Schol-ten and his club, however, is that this year, they are 100 percent in charge of planning the event. In 2011, the club teamed up with a group from Seattle. Scholten said this was because they got a late start planning and weren’t sure if the Demo Derby was even going to oc-cur. The two sides didn’t communicate efficiently and Scholten said that al-though the 2011 show was a success, it was far too stressful of a process. This year, Scholten said, he and the rest of the club are excited to put on a new show for residents from all over the region to enjoy. “We’re excited because we have full control of everything,” Scholten said. “We get to call what happens and we get a little more accurate count on the car numbers.”

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Richard Sterban can be forgiven that he doesn’t remember many details about the Oak Ridge Boys’ two previ-ous trips to the Northwest Washington Fair. After all, he’s trying to keep track of where they need to be in 2012. Sterban recalls that one of the vis-its to Lynden, Wash., was on “a beauti-ful cool night” with the scenery splen-did and the crowd responsive. “We do a lot of fairs. We are the perfect group to have for a fair. There is something in our show for every mem-ber of the family,” said the bass voice of the quartet, speaking from his home outside Nashville in mid-July. Between that date and Tuesday, Aug. 14, their appointment in the Northwest Washington Fair grand-stand, the Oak Ridge Boys were due to travel to Iowa, Kansas, Texas, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Ohio, Michi-gan, Ontario (Canada), New York and Utah. Their previous two visits to Lynden were in 1993 and 1998, the latter for rare consecutive nights’ shows. It’s certainly a busy time of the year for one of the most enduringly popular groups on the American music scene. Sterban is marking his 40th year with the Oak Ridge Boys — he joined

See OAK RIDGE BOYS on page 12The Oak Ridge Boys have been a fixture on the music scene for decades, with crossover hits such as “Elvira,” “Bobbie Sue” and “American Made.”


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2012 Fair Magazine 13Ferndale Record Any concert will certainly bring out the songs that helped make the Oak Ridge Boys famous. Count into that category “Elvira,” their most wide-ly recognized piece (1981), “American Made” (1983) and songs from the Y’All Come Back Saloon album (1977). Their

number-one hits list, totaling 23 in all, includes “I’ll Be True to You” (1978), “I Guess It Never Hurts to Hurt Some-times” (1983), “Every Day” and “Make My Life With You” (both 1984). By 1986 the group had recorded 14 albums. But any concert will also show how they’ve kept current and how, over so many years, “in some ways, we’ve re-created ourselves,” Sterban said.

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Oak Ridge Boys: Band put out 23 chart-topping hits across the years


If you want to go way back on the origins of the Oak Ridge Boys, prior to 1960s the name was the Oak Ridge Quartet and they did mostly gospel music. Based near Oak Ridge, Tenn., where the atomic bomb was be-ing developed in World War II, they began regular Grand Ole Opry ap-pearances in the fall of 1945. In the mid-’50s, they were featured in Time magazine as one of the top drawing gospel groups in the nation. More than 30 members had come and gone through the quartet by the time today’s coalition of Duane

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Chris Tomlin lets his concerts become a worship environment Chris Tomlin’s concerts focus on one thing: worshiping Jesus. “I just love that God uses me,” Tomlin said. “But my role isn’t to grab as much attention as I possibly can, but to really point people to God. I don’t spend my time thinking how to make myself more popular.” Tomlin has turned into one of Christian music’s most successful art-ists with nine number-one songs, in-cluding “How Great is Our God,” “For-ever,” and “Holy is the Lord,” and over three million album sales to his credit. When Tomlin stands in front of a throng of believers, however, it’s his desire to disappear, to surrender to the Holy Spirit and help others release the concerns of the world and focus on worshiping the God who created them, he said. His last three albums — Hello Love, See the Morning and Arriving — have been certified gold, signifying sales of more than 500,000, units and Arriving has actually gone with sales over a mil-lion.

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musically adventurous. “I wanted something that would just explode through the speakers,” Tomlin says. “When you hear the drums, it makes you want to move, but has the same heart of melody, same heart of worship. We didn’t want to lose that. “It’s really cool because Dan had never done any worship music before, never produced any music written for a congregation. It was good that he could work with somebody in a differ-ent vein and let those worlds mix. Ed knocked it out of the park. He always does and Dan did as well. They ap-proached it from a different place, but it’s really great to work with both and I think people are going to really enjoy to hear this music because it has that fresh sound that you can only get when you kind of mix it up.” Tomlin recorded a new version

of “Our God,” a song that has already been enthusiastically embraced by audiences through the Passion confer-ences. “It’s not going to be what they are used to,” he said. “It’s the opening track of the record and I cannot wait for people to hear it.” In addition to writing with fre-quent collaborators like Matt Red-man, Tomlin also stepped outside his comfort zone with new co-writers. “We connected with Jason Ingram for this album,” Tomlin says of co-writing ‘Lovely’ and ‘I Will Follow.’ “I kept hear-ing his name and we made it happen and, man, we have this really special chemistry songwriting together.” Tomlin wrote “Awakening” with Hillsong’s Reuben Morgan. “We wrote that for the Passion conference,” he says. “It’s one of those global worship songs. I love that word and what it means, just to come to life, that faith rising up, that faith awakening and

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Local acts tend to get very positive reactions at the Northwest Washington Fair, and Heart is looking to be no ex-ception to that trend. The band took the music world by storm in the 1970s with massive hits like “Barracuda,” “Crazy On You,” “Magic Man” and “Straight On.” Sisters Ann and Nancy Wilson spent many of their younger years around the Pa-cific Northwest, graduating from high school in Bellevue before eventually making their way to Vancouver, B.C., to work with Roger and Mike Fisher and company as part of the Heart lineup. Heart has been a fixture on the na-tional music scene since forming, and the Wilson sisters have always been synonymous with the band. Ann Wil-son sings lead vocals while Nancy Wil-son rocks on the guitar and backing vocals. Nancy Wilson said shows close to home always carry a heightened energy when Heart is involved. “Seattle and Vancouver, that whole part of the country and the coast, down to L.A., they’re always super-ener-gized,” she said.

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2012 Fair Magazine 21Ferndale Record Audiences obviously react posi-tively to Heart’s extensive back catalog of recognizable hits, but the band has continued making music through the years as well. In 2010, Heart released Red Velvet Car, a 10-track studio album that peaked at number 10 on the Bill-board Album Charts. In 2011, A Night at Sky Church, a live concert DVD/Blu-ray release filmed at a 2010 concert stop in Seattle, was released. Heart toured in 2011 with classic rockers Def Leppard. Heart’s most recent release is the three-disc, 1-DVD Strange Euphoria, which dropped in June. Strange Eupho-ria is a box set that spans the band’s en-tire career and features highlights from the band’s back catalog, live cuts and unreleased demo tracks. “Luckily we actually started the box set probably like 10 years ago, and then it got stalled out and we kept all of the files together and a lot of the rari-ties that we had already gone and se-lected,” Nancy Wilson said. “Then we had a head start and we looked them over again and we went digging in all of our closets, everywhere. Every little old cassette tape and every little disc that we’d burned somewhere or sometime.” Strange Euphoria won’t be Heart’s

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like to go to bed at night and wake up in the morning and know I still love a song. If I still love it two years later, maybe other people will too.” Enjoy Yourself’s first single, “Pretty Good At Drinkin’ Beer,” became Billy’s sixth No. 1 hit. Interestingly, he found that song on the same demo CD as “People Are Crazy.” “I knew I should only pick one beer song for my last album so I held on to ‘Pret-ty Good At Drinkin’ Beer,’” Currington said. “When it came time to record, that was the first one I threw up in the air. Everyone was in agreement that it was a good summer-time, first single for an album.” “Bad Day of Fishin’,” is Currington’s own songwriting contribution to the re-cord and it hilariously advances his theory that a bad day of fishin’ beats a good day of anything else. The equally hilarious “Like My Dog,” states the singer’s desire for someone to love him “like my dog does.” “It’s about a relationship with you and your dog and how you wish your woman

would love you just as much and in the same ways,” Currington said of the song. But the album is more than songs about dogs and beer. “Until You,” which was written by Dave Barnes, is a pure love song. “It’s got this great melody and simpli-fied smart lyric about you and your girl out under the sky and overlooking the city at night, just enjoying each other’s company,” Currington said. All in all, Currington insists that his latest album has enough “good vibes” that people will feel free to give it a listen when they are feeling their best. “I hope it’s one of those albums that someone can put in when they’re hanging out in their camp spot or they’re grilling out by their pool and just feel good through the whole thing,” he said Billy Currington’s Friday, Aug. 17, show begins at 7:30 p.m. in the grandstand. Tick-et information can be found on the North-west Washington Fair website at nwwafair.com.

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Security: County gang activity on rise in recent yearsContinued from page 42 The fair’s security budget has been

increased, and Baron said the fair board has applied for grants that would substantially improve the fair’s surveil-lance system. “We already had a good video sur-veillance system,” Baron said, “so it’s just a matter of upgrading the technol-ogy because it changes often.” The increase in video surveillance will provide nearly complete coverage of the fairgrounds and 24-hour moni-toring by fair security.

Old measures Baron said that even prior to the 2011 shooting, the fair employed ex-tensive security measures that most fairgoers probably didn’t notice. Routine precautions include: • Rigorous safety inspection of the carnival rides. • Controlling the moving of ani-mals during the fair to minimize con-tact with attendees. • Monitoring barns for cleanliness continually and keeping food areas away from animals to minimize expo-

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Bistro customers can choose to sit on the grass or sit at a table, and an outdoor beer garden will be available as well. The Rotary Building is currently the only air-conditioned structure on the fair-grounds.

Continued from page 39 The Reserve Champion Bistro will serve alcohol, and the availability of alco-hol has been one of the more controver-sial points of the bistro since the fair’s an-nouncement in early June. “I think a lot of people misunderstand the alcohol-at-the-fair issue. The idea for serving alcohol came about because of the restaurant. We want to have a nice restau-rant, and even in Lynden, at most nice res-taurants you can order a glass of beer or

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The story of 2011’s late entertainment changes

See NEWSBOYS on page 50

Newsboys flew in at zero hour as a last-minute replacement for MercyMe, which had canceled due to a family emergency.

to entertainers, (patrons) bought the tick-ets because they wanted to see MercyMe. MercyMe is unique.” But the fair wanted to provide a show nonetheless. It turned out that Newsboys, a Chris-tian group that had been immensely popu-lar at the fair in 2008, was in Montana on Tuesday and had an off day on Wednesday. “They were in the same neighborhood,” Baron said. “But knowing the routing, who

is available on that date and where they are at and then talking to the entertainers and saying, ‘Can you do this?’— that is still only part of it. We had to get them from Montana to here on time.” Plane connections from Montana to Whatcom County are few and far between on such a tight time schedule, so Newsboys

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Looking for a way to get your name out to the public? For local performers in Whatcom County, having your talents and name exposed can often be difficult. However, once a year local artists have the opportunity to put on a show for thousands of screaming fans. The return of the Northwest Wash-ington Fair also marks the return of the Community Stage series. The stage, locat-ed near the big water tank, will be packed with up-and-coming talent hoping to make lasting impressions upon visitors. Community Stage manager Cindy Parker has been involved with the event since it started five years ago. She said it continues to grow in participation and popularity. In the first year, there were 25 ap-plicants for nine performances. Fast-for-ward to the present time, and Parker had 80 applications for 30 open slots this year. “It’s really fun for me because I get to know a lot of talented people in this area,” Parker said. “I’m blown away by how much talent is in this area. It’s fun to see their success and some of them draw huge crowds and they’re surprised be-cause they haven’t had that happen yet.” As much fun as it is for Parker, she said the big benefit of the stage is to help artists gain some attention and move for-ward in their careers. “It just gives local performers the op-portunity to play for a large audience,” Parker said. “There’s a small monetary compensation for them, but it’s good ex-posure for them. They can connect with people who might want to hire perform-ers or sell their CD for merchandise.” Another interesting aspect of the

stage is that it’s not used only for musi-cal acts. Parker said the performances are very diverse and wide-ranging. This year, acts include a belly dancing group and Scottish country dancers. One fun musical act is the Belling-ham Ukulele Group, which has 20 mem-bers. On top of the Community Stage, local performers will also be placed on the Hag-gen Festival Square stage at noon. Parker said that the performances for local tal-ent are consistent every day of the fair on both stages and go until 7 p.m. when the grandstand entertainment starts. As for quality of performances, Parker said it’s been growing consistently since the show started. “I’ve had people the last two years

that are pretty well known, which has been pretty cool,” Parker said. “We offer a wide variety of styles and bring some-thing for everybody.” “We’ve got people on the Commu-nity Stage that certainly deserve to go on to big careers,” Parker added. “Hopefully they go down the line.” As for feedback from fair officials, Parker said they’ve been extremely pleased. The same can be said for resi-dents of Whatcom County. “The folks in charge at the fair are re-ally happy with the system,” Parker said. “I love that the fair continues to support local performers. That’s a huge commu-nity gift.” — Braulio Perez

A band plays late at night on the fair’s Community Stage last year.

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depth on fundraising strategies. The process of determining the list of initial projects includes getting a pro-posed wish list from fair staff and the fair board and then selecting items the foundation believes will most benefit the community while promoting agriculture. One thing the Blue Ribbon Foun-dation is already sure of, though, is that

donors to the group will have an impres-sive benefits package. “Those benefits will be announced in November too, but you won’t want to pass those up,” Vander Veen said. “The benefit package is look-ing very nice and are things that have to do with the fair.” So far, the process has gone smooth-ly, with the initial work focused on form-ing bylaws, a constitution and a mission statement. “It has been a few months of

a process, but we filed with the Secretary of State and have all of our government responsibilities taken care of,” Vander Veen said. “Now we are working very close with the fair board and keeping them abreast of what we are doing.” The Blue Ribbon Foundation includes two members of the fair board, Sandell and Tjoelker, working as a liaison between the two groups.

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In recent years, local business own-ers in Whatcom County have been ask-ing for a new promotion to bring some excitement to the Northwest Washington Fair. Something that can attract clientele and also provide a fun experience. The wait is now over. In 2012, the fair introduces the brand-new “Front and Center” ticket that provides an up-close and personal expe-rience of the main-stage performances. The new ticket series, which spon-sorship coordinator Karen Kildall said has brought in plenty of positive feed-back, is a red-hot item this summer. Tickets (a few are still available) sell for $320 apiece, but must be bought in pairs. Kildall said the new ticket idea is something that has been discussed for a while, but this year it had to be done. “For years we’ve had people ask us

Front and Center a hot 2012 fair addition

Young Life received over $8,500 in donations and an untold amount of do-nated labor and supplies to renovate both the inside and outside of the build-ing. “It is really cool to see,” Mondau said. “There have been lots of businesses and individuals from the community who have pitched in labor or materials to help with the renovations.” Young Life created a red barn theme for the space, renovating the interior with new cabinets, paint and counters and adding onto the exterior of the structure, building on a larger “barn portion to fit with the theme.” “Oh yeah, it will be a big change,” Mondau said. “We hope it will be a really great addition to the fair. It will be a fun deal with the barn theme and it will be

Young Life: New building features barn themeContinued from page 51 attractive and a much-needed improve-

ment to the building.” The entire process has gone smoothly so far, led by Brian Zylstra and Roger Roosendaal coordinating the construction and rallying donations. Mondau said that with the ample do-nations of money, supplies and time, Young Life hopes to break even on the project. Long known for its slow-roasted barbecue beef sandwiches, the Young Life menu won’t lose any allure, only gain it, Mondau said. While keeping the staples of beef, fresh corn on the cob, mashed potatoes and gravy and baked beans, Young Life will add in a kids’ menu (the location is just south of the kids’ carnival rides) and once again feature homemade pies. These are not homemade from a store, but actually

homemade. “Folks from all over the county will be pitching in to help us make pies and we are really excited about it,” Mondau said. He expects to coordinate 30 to 50 pies each day and they will sort through the best of the best and serve those first. “It will be quite the process,” he admits. Young Life once sold truly homemade pies, but had gone to store-bought vari-eties in recent years. To handle what Young Life expects will be a busier year, booth workers will split into three shifts of volunteers per day, working out to about 75 volunteers needed per day. If the new booth makes the splash that Young Life expects, they will certainly need all the volunteer help they can get. And all the pies they can serve.

— Tim Newcomb

about season tickets or to have an expe-rience at the fair,” Kildall said. “Owners want to bring clients and employees, so we decided to pull the trigger this year. It’s more than a concert. It’s an experi-ence and that’s our tagline for the event.” With the purchase of a Front and Center ticket, visitors receive VIP park-ing, the best available seats in the North-west Washington Fair grandstand, and gate admission to the fair. This year, there will also be a Front and Center hospital-ity tent, which will have a full no-host bar both before and after the concerts. “The hospitality tent is in the enter-tainment compound, so that’s an area that normally no one can access,” Kildall said. “It’s pretty neat and pretty exclusive for everyone who buys a ticket.” The 2012 concert series has the Oak Ridge Boys performing Tuesday night, Chris Tomlin Wednesday, Heart on Thurs-day and Billy Currington on Friday night. “We thought this was such a great year to pull the trigger because we have such a fabulous line-up,” Kildall said. “It would have been foolish of us not to have it.”

The four-concert package does not include Monday’s Demolition Derby or Saturday’s Roar and Rumble of monster trucks and motocross. As expected, Kildall said, the major-ity of tickets have been sold to local busi-ness owners. She said that owners are using Front and Center as a great way to bring different clients to shows, as well as their friends and families. “People are excited about the pro-gram that we’re offering, especially when they’ve been asking for it,” Kildall said. “It takes the work off of them to provide a good experience for their clients. All they have to do is show up and everything is ready for them.” People have been purchasing from all over the county. Kildall said it’s been pleasing to see that the support hasn’t been strictly from Lynden residents. “The great thing about this fair is that it’s not the Lynden fair, it’s the Northwest Washington Fair,” Kildall said. “It belongs to the whole county, so this is something that people from all over the county are giving feedback to, which is wonderful.”

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Newsboys: No pre-show, no time to wastebut when it was past the Lynden ETA and still no plane in sight, he got concerned that any hiccup at this point could really ruin things. “The only thing I got concerned with is when they said it was a twin-engine Cess-na, I thought, ‘Is he going to be able to get into Lynden?’” Vander Yacht said. “That is obviously in the pilot’s hands, but as I’m sit-ting there, time is passing and I’m looking at the clock knowing what show time is and they are past the ETA. I’m thinking, what if he buzzes the runway and doesn’t feel he can get in there and goes to Bellingham? Then we’re late. I was crossing my fingers it would all go well. And it did.” Baron said that most folks were not worried that Newsboys would come in too late, but he was starting to fret, at least a little. “I’m the kind of guy who likes to have a backup plan and I was having a hard time getting anyone to discuss a backup plan with me,” he said. “We started talking about alternatives about a half hour before. If we had to fill in a half hour and the audience starts to get nervous, what do we do? Fortu-nately, we didn’t have to.”


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Vander Yacht said that the scream-ing of a Cessna eliminated his worry. He got the band and its needed gear loaded into the vans and they rushed over to the fairgrounds (after a bit of a hassle getting the airport gates open). The band hadn’t eaten, so they scarfed some food down and walked onto the stage. There was no meet-and-greet, no usual pre-show happenings, no time to waste. “There wasn’t the usual time for them to get on the stage and test everything,” Baron said. “That had to be done before. They walked on and started playing. It was pretty funny. The lead singer (Michael Tait) started talking after a couple of songs, tell-ing the story and saying it was like the plane landed in someone’s back yard, his impres-sion of the Lynden airport.” Jody Davis, Newsboys’ lead guitar-ist, said he remembers the trip quite well, since their tour dates are usually planned out well in advance. Instead, they got a call while playing a show in Central Park in New York, the day before heading to Montana. But even getting from Montana to Se-attle was touch-and-go. “At the last min-ute we booked these flights and they had a problem with the plane (in Montana), so we

had to have a private plane on standby,” he said. “We were literally sitting on the phone about to take the private jet to Seattle when they told us we could start boarding.” But things got a bit more, shall we say, exciting, on the private flight up to Lynden. “The pilot, he was a bit of a character any-way, took us out and dropped the plane to about 50 feet off the water,” Davis said. “It was a very exciting few minutes there. We are totally diving toward the water and everybody’s freaking out. It was really awe-some, actually.” Then, when the plane got closer to Lyn-den, they had a bit of trouble even finding the airport. “It was like we had to land in a neighborhood,” Davis said of the Lynden Municipal Airport, which has a tight half-mile runway tucked between Benson and Double Ditch roads. “Everyone is standing outside watching. It felt like it was going straight down and he just slammed on the brakes. It was a short runway.” Newsboys actually had to fly out of Bellingham that night because the Lynden runway was too short to take off fully load-ed with cargo and passengers. Davis said it was actually a lot of fun to step off the plane and almost directly onto

2012 Fair Magazine 59Ferndale Recordthe stage. “You spend most of your time waiting,” he said. “So it actually feels pret-ty good to just get off, throw on some gig clothes and jump on stage.” The fair has two kinds of arrangements with entertainers, drive-in and fly-in. When routing is available, bands drive their tour bus, hitting multiple shows in the same region and bringing their equipment with them. A fly-in date — when an entertainer isn’t in the area, but the fair still wants that particular act — requires rental of all the “backline” equipment. Both are common (the Oak Ridge Boys, for example, are a fly-in this year), so the fair’s crew is accus-tomed to handling the stage setup. VanderYacht said the band was actu-ally pretty excited as they stepped off the plane, recounting the trip over the San Juan Islands, close to spectacular houses and near the water. “They had been here before and were talking about the mountains,” he said. “They had a really enjoyable flight from Seattle to Lynden.” In the end, Newsboys made the show, despite being the closest arrival to a start time in Vander Yacht’s 20-year history. Baron said that with no cancellations in his first seven years as fair manager and then two in one week, he’s hoping for 15 years of cancellation-free fairs. Of course, “you never know,” he said. No, you never really do.

— Tim Newcomb

Opening events on Monday morning kick off 2012 fair

You can count on some Northwest Washington Fair activities at very specific times. Here’s the schedule:

10:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13 Opening Blue and Green Parade. About 700 FFA and 4-H youths will walk, many with banners and animals, from the Gate 1 entrance to the RECO Community Stage near the big water tank. They will then enjoy free ice cream compliments of the Whatcom County Farm Bureau.

11 a.m. Monday, Aug. 13 Opening ceremonies. This will also be at RECO Community Stage, and a special emphasis will honor families that have a long heritage of involvement with the fair.

3 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13 The new Moowich Express, the dairy treats window of the Whatcom County Dairy Women, will be celebrated with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

10:30 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. each day At Small Animal Experience in the Henry Jansen Agricultural Building, chil-dren will have two chances to bottle-feed the baby calves each day.

4 p.m. each day In the dairy barn, you can have your photo taken with a cow or calf and the dairy farmer and Whatcom County Dairy Ambassador. The Barnyard Kids 4-H Club organizes, with Cargill-Nutrena Feeds sponsoring.

5:30 p.m. each day In the Ag Adventure Center tent in

Some animal events are on a set schedule

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need any projects done for your nonprofit?’ I said we wanted to do suicide doors or a second stage. He took it for a couple weeks ago and put the stage on.” The Stage Coach, which appears at different spots around the fairgrounds each night, also has a new LED light package and a brand-new custom interior in addi-tion to the second stage. Taylor hopes the addi-tion of an extra stage will make more room on the main stage. The second stage, which sits atop the cab of the Stage Coach, is ideal for a drum riser, Taylor said.

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The Stage Coach will feature about the same number of performances as last year, with a great deal of musical variety. “We’re doing the same number of performances, but I hope that we’ve in-creased the caliber and qual-ity of our performances,” Taylor said. On Thursday, Aug. 16, and Friday, Aug. 17, the Stage Coach will feature art-ists from Humble Beast, a Portland-based record label. These artists include Braille, which performed last year, and Theory Hazit, Beautiful Eulogy and a DJ, who will sit on the second stage so the performers can have the main stage to themselves.

Humble Beast’s artists per-form primarily hip-hop mu-sic. Taylor said a primary goal this year was to have a more varied lineup than the hip-hop- and techno-centric approach they took last year with the Stage Coach. This year, local band BellaMaine will perform, along with fair stage emcee Matt Baker. A Scottish musical act will also perform. More variety doesn’t mean the Stage Coach will get rid of the already-classic Milk, Cookies and Techno event. At these events, milk and cookies are provided, along with techno music. Local DJ Tanner Blaske will bring his own brand of dub-

step music to the stage for Milk, Cookies and Techno. “We’ll have three nights of techno dance, dubstep, party rock and whatever,” Taylor said. Just like last year, word about the Stage Coach will get out via social networking and text messages. People can visit Facebook.com/BigOakStageCoach or text “fair” to 206-673-2753. “That way, they can keep up with where we’re go-ing to be,” Taylor said. Big Oak Ministries has giveaways planned for the Stage Coach’s gatherings, including artist swag and other fun, to-be-determined materials.

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Thanks to a donation from Western Refinery Services, the Northwest Wash-ington Fair’s shuttle bus system will fea-ture fair-owned former transit buses in-stead of rented school buses. WRS recently purchased nine 65-passenger articulating buses from Snohomish Transit to handle the em-ployee traffic required to staff the BP and Phillips 66 refineries’ turnarounds. Loren VanderYacht, the asphalt manager for WRS and also the backstage manager for the fair and member of the fair association, said that all along WRS planned on keeping some of the nine buses and selling others. When the fair inquired about renting buses, WRS in-

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stead decided to give the fair four of the 1995 model buses. “It is a huge gift and a huge benefit to the fair,” said Jim Baron, fair manager. “The board and I are extremely pleased.” VanderYacht said the value of the buses is in the tens of thousands of dol-lars. When the fair and WRS started talk-ing about loaning or renting the buses for use during the fair, insurance issues became tricky. “WRS decided instead of selling them, why not donate them?” VanderYacht said. “It made more sense to donate.” Billy VanZanten and Ryan Likkel own WRS. The articulating buses hold 65 pas-sengers each instead of about 40 that can fit into a school bus. They also have two entrances and the ability to “kneel down” and become handicapped-acces-sible.

By having the larger bus option, Baron said that not only will the fair skip the school buses for this year, but it will change the shuttle route. Previously, the fair had four buses all running the same route. This year, there will be two differ-ent routes, both crossing in downtown, to ensure that buses don’t fill up (a prob-lem with the one longer route) and that the fair can meet the goal of having no one wait longer than 12 minutes for a ride. While the fair hadn’t finalized the names or exact courses of the routes as of mid-July, Baron said there will be just two options and it shouldn’t be a dif-ficult system to master. “There are only two different choices,” he said. “It is not like if you get on the wrong bus you will end up in Seattle.”

— Tim Newcomb


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the middle of the grounds, the “Circle of Dairy Farming” is a live performance that originated with the spring Milk Makers Fest for first graders, but has now stepped up onto a new stage.

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Ongoing: Calves set to be born during fair; crowds expected

is highly educational about the dairy in-dustry that thrives in Whatcom County.

Unknown time The large Eaglemill dairy farm of the DeJong family will have cows at the fair that are close to giving birth to calves. Whenever those times come (unless at 3 a.m.), expect a crowd to gather around the maternity pen in the dairy barn.

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