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From left are Fort Coulonge’s Zoé Ladouceur, Waltham’s Charlotte Turner, and Fort Coulonge’s Élodie Ouellet and Mollie Romain, attempting to finish their ice cream cones before Saturday afternoon’s sun destroys them. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Bryson Bullis takes a quiet moment on Friday morning with his black angus steer named Twister, who he showed for the first time this year in the market sale. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson

Olivia Judd (left) and Eloise Thompson (right) both competed in the goat class for both showmanship and conformation and both took home ribbons at the fair. Thompson and her goat Marsha won reserve grand champion while Judd and her goat Princess won overall grand champion. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Sisters Claire Pasch (5, left) and Grace Pasch (8, right) from Ladysmith competed in the Western Horse class for the first time this year. They were accompanied by dad Josh Pasch and instructor Julie Monet. Claire entered with her pony Cooper and Grace with her pal Violet. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
EQUITY supporters of all ages stopped by our booth over the weekend for a chat, and some, including William Oliver Draper (top) and Mary McDowell Wood (bottom), were surprised to see their faces featured in our See you in THE EQUITY game. Photos: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
The sun sets over the Shawville Fairgrounds on Saturday evening. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Shawville 4-H president Kasey Lafleur pauses to give the simmental she’s about to show a last drink of water before lining up for her turn in the arena on Saturday evening. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Felix Vereyken won second in the showmanship class at Friday’s market steer competition, and third in the heavy steer class. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Dan the One Man Band entertained fairgoers with covers of everything from Mary Had a Little Lamb to Beyoncé’s Texas Hold’em. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Laurel Sally of Bristol shows off her award-winning shoebox farm in the homecraft competition. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Florence Laframboise of Shawville proudly shows off her entry in the lint monster category of this year’s homecraft competition. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Phil Holmes performs triple duty in the arena on Saturday morning, announcing the Pee Wee beef show, staying on call in case two of his kids need help wrangling their cow in the show, all while balancing his youngest, Maisie, on his hip. “I’m technically on duty if that cow goes crazy,” he said. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
James Barber (left) and Ryder Barber (right) of Clarendon take flight on a Midway ride on Saturday morning. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Gary Overton of Aylmer provided transportation around the fairgrounds on his 1950s Massey-Harris tractor. Photo: K.C. Jordan
David Aumond sat behind the reins for the only entry in the miniature six-horse hitch class on Saturday evening. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Kinly Rice of Renfrew, Ont. (front) and Amy Sheppard of Bristol (back) showed their sheep in the senior showmanship category Saturday morning. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Anne-Marie Laplante of Ferme Thuya in Low, Que. served up stone-fired pizzas for fair-goers all weekend long. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Elaine Lang of Shawville won first place in two homecraft categories: “quilted item that is not a quilt,” which she is holding, and “quilt, worked on by two or more people,” which is located in the top right corner. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Tyler Joe Miller (centre) got to meet and greet with Hayden and Marissa Moore after the show Saturday.
Denis Hamelin showed off his 1923 Ford Coupe at the classic car show on Monday. He purchased the car 10 years ago from a friend who passed away and has since restored the vehicle, installing a new Ford engine. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Stands were packed around the fair’s track on Labour Day Monday to watch the action-packed demolition derby. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Kelsey Edwards won the Junior Heifer class of the Holstein show on Friday. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Brothers Graham Vereyken (left) Mason Vereyken (right) showed their rabbits Smoke and Hector (respectively) in both showmanship and conformation competitions at the fair. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Robbie Chartier and his 2008 Honda Civic were the champions of the derby’s DT Demo X race. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Donegan Lueders showed his miniature horse Hurdy on Saturday. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Sixteen-year-old Shawville resident Sarah Bouchard and her dog Nelly performed with Canine Circus during the group’s many dog trick shows over the weekend. Photo: Liz Draper
Morgan Lance of Shawville, pictured with her daughter Mallory, knows her way around horses, poles and barrels. She not only competed in the senior Western division, but she also led her son Trenton Hodgins in the Novice Pee Wee class of the gymkhana horse show. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Ten-year-old Maxim Robert of Masham keeps his two percheron horses, Sam (left) and Fred (right), company while they wait their turn in the lightweight class of the horse pull on Sunday afternoon. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Josh Proulx (holding the reins) holds back horses Woody and Duke as Yves Proulx (centre) and Danny Proulx (left) unhitch the horses from the 5,500-pound weight. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
Asher Foster, a cottager from Ladysmith, got up close and personal with corn on Friday morning at one of three of the fair’s new agricultural learning modules – this one all about corn production. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Grace Pasch was led by her father Josh through the poles at her first ever pole-bending competition. Photo: Sarah Pledge Dickson
Rising Canadian country star Tyler Joe Miller (centre) and his bandmates Marcus Ramsay (left), and Andrew Hamilton (right) headlined the main stage on Saturday night. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme
One of Pat and Janet Allard’s horses started acting up during Friday night’s heavy horse event, running directly into the side boards of the arena. The team needed help from several people to get the horse under control. Photo: K.C. Jordan
Dallas Coughlin of Portage du Fort shows her Charolais named Lola in the Pee Wee beef show on Saturday morning. Photo: Sophie Kuijper Dickson
Kenzie Dagg showed off her showmanship skills with her heifer Stonehedge Lexi at the Pee Wee beef show on Saturday. Photo: Guillaume Laflamme

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