(Chelsea Update would like to thank Cindy Triveline for letting me know about this story.) Two Run for the Rolls participants – Jacob Nelson and Sophie Lash – are finalists for the 2013 Governors Fitness Awards. “Nothing Gonna Stop Me” Nelson, 8, and Lash, 14, were participants in the 2012 Run for the Rolls race, [...]
Chelsea Community Fair was one of 21 county fairs to be awarded grant funds for building and other capital improvements to its fairground facilities. Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (MDARD) Director Jamie Clover Adams recently announced the awards through the competitive grants for Michigan’s county fairs and Chelsea fair received $13,566 to reroof [...]
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Each Saturday in March, the Garden Mill will host its annual Green Thumb series of free workshops, which begin at 11 a.m. Garden Mill owner Jennifer Fairfield, is passionate about all aspects of gardening and this year’s topics are varied and reflect the Garden Mill’s commitment to gardeners on all experience levels. The first workshop [...]
Rick Boham, president of the Chelsea Community Fair Board, was the guest speaker at a recent Chelsea Kiwanis Club meeting. He updated the club on all the activities and projects involving the fair board, and the 76th Chelsea Community Fair, which will take place Aug. 20-24, 2013. For more fair information, go to chelseafair.org.
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Have you ever thought about showing a lamb, steer, hog, goat, dairy calf, poultry, rabbit or turkey at the Chelsea Community Fair? Now’s the time to talk it over with your family and friends and learn how to purchase, care for, and enter one in this year’s 76th annual fair Aug. 20-24. Rabbits and poultry [...]
The Chelsea Community Fair Board is making improvements to the fairgrounds property. Since the close of this year’s 75th annual event in August, a new parking area has been added in the back of the property, and behind it, all the fallen trees and dead rotted wood was removed. Fair Board President Rick Boham said [...]
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Local resident Loren Heller was recently honored by the Washtenaw County Farm Bureau at its annual meeting for his many years of service as a local auctioneer. Steven Thelen, WCFB president, said the recognition was “for his many years of dedicated service as the livestock auctioneer for hundreds of kids at so many community fairs [...]
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Without the help of the many volunteers who help put on the Chelsea Community Fair, there wouldn’t be one. So each year, the 27-member Fair Board hosts a dinner for all the volunteers who assist them in putting on the five-day event. It’s a social time, filled with laughter and lots and lots of food. [...]
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A week after the last animal, plant and ride left the Chelsea Community Fairgrounds, stories about this year’s event are still popular with readers. I can’t thank everyone enough for all the kudos I’ve gotten about Chelsea Update’s coverage of what’s arguably the biggest week of the year for the Chelsea community. In case you [...]
The last Sunday of fair week is almost as busy as the day before the annual community event begins. Early in the morning, the livestock are taken by trailers to the various processors and numerous adults and youth take down the gating and scrub it clean for next year. Then the barns are swept, and [...]
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