The 2020 Paulding County Fair is only 4 weeks away. The Senior and Junior Fair Boards have been working on this fair since the close of 2019, then Coronavirus hit. The State of Ohio has been under a stay at home order since March 15th, 2020 and was extended twice to May 29th, 2020. This also included a mandate for no “Fairs, Festivals or Parades” which have not been lifted and only groups of 10 people allowed. On May 11th both the Senior and Junior Fair board had a Zoom meeting, with the Paulding County Health Department and Paulding County Commissioners. It was decided by all parties, that for the safety and well-being of the Paulding County residents, the 2020 Paulding County Fair cannot happen this year. Based on recent COVID-19 trends in Ohio, we, as a collective group, had to make this hard decision for the community.
The Senior and Junior Fair boards are still looking at ways to have a Virtual “Add-on” auction and do have packers lined up for all the animals, if the youth choose to go that route to help with compensation of their completed projects. The youth do need to complete Quality Assurance and Skillathon, then they are considered a completed project, and are then able to sell their animal to the packers we lined up. We are also hoping to have a Fun Day sometime in the fall for all the 4-H/FFA youth of the county, once this has all calmed down.
We are one, Paulding Strong!
Paulding County Ag Society,
Paulding County Junior Fair board,
Paulding County Commissioners,
Paulding County Health Department
