Ilderton Fair
195 King St N0M 2A0 Ilderton, ON, Canada

Meetings are scheduled for next week of both the Homecraft division and the General Membership. If you are looking to join these meetings, you must register to obtain the login information. All current and new members are welcome. [email protected]

Ilderton 4-H Club Members, Don't forget to apply for the Hugh Filson Memorial 4-H Bursary. Application deadline is December 31st. If you have any problems with the google form, please email [email protected] https://forms.gle/FDoXLFkew69pe6Ty7

Thanks Ilderton! Its only 6:30 and we have had an amazing turn out! Still lots of time to come see Santa! Merry Christmas!!

#COVID19 has been very difficult for Ontario’s agricultural and horticultural societies, which were forced to cancel all their fall fairs and exhibits due to th...e pandemic. Today, I’m very proud to be in London announcing a $5 million investment for our agricultural and horticultural societies impacted by COVID-19 restrictions as part of Ontario’s 2020 budget. For more information, visit news.ontario.ca//ontario-supporting-agricultural-and-horti. #OntAg #ProtectSupportRecover

Thank you! Thank you Virtual Ilderton Fair participants for decorating and creating for our virtual competitions! Thank you Denfield Livestock Exchange for hosting our Open Beef Sale! Thank you Handwork Committee and participants for making items to be donated to local charities! Thank you Oxbow PS for making scarecrows and collecting donations for the Alisa Craig Food Bank!... Thank you Ilderton and Area Community for your support and enthusiasm this week end! Every year the Ilderton Fair is a weekend like no other and this year was unique! See you in 2021! See more

I just wanted to say a huge Thank You to everyone who came out to donate your wonderful items for the Donation Categories from the Homecraft Department at the Ilderton Fair Overall we recieved: - 5 Pet Blankets/Beds to donate to Happy's Place- Retirement Home for Dogs - 6 Red Scarf to donate to the Regional HIV AIDS Connection... - about 7 Hat/Mitts or Hat/Scarf sets to donate to the Woman's Rural Resource Centre - 4 Christmas Placemats to donate to Von Meals on Wheel Program - 30+ handmade masks to be donated to the Children’s Hospital of Southwestern Ontario. Thank you so much for your hard work and for making a difference by helping us donate to local Charities that mean so much to so many of us. If you still have items to be donated, please let me know. I will still accept items over the next week or so due to the Official Post being up so late on the Facebook Page. Thank you all so much! Kristen Sybers Handwork Department Chair

Could you choose between these two cuties?!?!?! First place for both entries in our Virtual Horse Show Costume Class! Thank you for participating in the Virtual Ilderton Fair!

Missing the Fair this weekend? We are! Share pictures and memories to this post.

One of our faithful Agricultural Society members Carol Small wrote a book about the history of the Ilderton Fair. She titled it Rain, Shine, and Snow. Since 1851 Ilderton Fair has been celebrating Agricultural through all of the conditions Carol used in her Title. A lot of our members are farmers that are use to battling a myriad of conditions but none of us thought we would be faced with a pandemic. Who would have thought we could have a fall without Ilderton Fair.... We will miss the many aspects that go together to create an incredible community fair. The Midway lights, the exhibits, the noise of the crowd and visiting with friends and family, so many activities that make up our fair. Whatever your memories of Ilderton Fair we hope this weekend you will take some time to reminisce. Thank you to all of the competitors in our Decorate for Canada Day competition, our Virtual Fair Competition and 4-H Livestock Sale. Special thanks to our members who made these events possible. We make be down this year but we are not out! Plans are in the works for 2021 and we hope you are planning for next year too! See you in 2021! Barbara Johnson President Ilderton Agricultural Society

Congratulations Decorate for Fall (Residential Division) Winners! Thank you for participating in the Virtual Ilderton Fair!

Congratulations Decorate for Fall (Agricultural Division) Winners! Thank you for participating in the Virtual Ilderton Fair!

Speaking of scarecrows ... Oxbow PS has been decorating for fall and made a few scarecrows in honour of Ilderton Fair weekend. They have challenged neighbours to make a scarecrow this weekend and tweet a photo with #ildertonfair . You can also add a photo to this post. Oxbow is also collecting donations for the Alisa Craig Food Bank from October 1-8. Touch-less bins by the school's front door.

Congratulations Open Scarecrow winners! Thank you for participating in the Virtual Ilderton Fair!

Congratulations Kids only Porch Pumpkin Winners! Thank you for participating in the Virtual Ilderton Fair.

Everyone has their memories. The feel of the fair is in the air this week. Thank-you for sharing Liz Zavitz.

Don't forget about our virtual competitions! https://www.ildertonfair.ca/ has the links to the entry forms. If you are having trouble with the Google Form please email your information to [email protected].

Calling all crafters! While we cannot have a traditional Homecraft and Handwork competition at this time, we wanted to ensure that we could continue to support our local non-profits! Usually we have several categories of items that we donate after the Fair. This year, we will be collecting the following categories for donation from now until October 3rd. Red Scarf 6 x 60 donated to the HIV/AIDS... Knitted Hat & Scarf or Hat & Mitts donated to the Women’s Rural Resource Center Quilted Christmas Placemat Donated to VON Meals on Wheels Program Handmade Pet Blanket (any medium) donated to Happy’s Place Retirement Rescue Home for Senior Dogs Handmade Children’s or Adult Masks donated to the Children’s Health Foundation The Chair of Handwork, Kristen Sybers, will be at the Ilderton Fair Grounds (195 King Street, Ilderton, ON) collecting items on the following days. If you are unable to come by those days, please call her, 519-719-4971, and we can arrange for pick up or drop off Tuesday, September 22nd 6pm 9pm Saturday, September 26th 9am noon Thursday, October 1st 6pm 9pm Saturday, October 3rd 9am noon Please share so all our crafting friends can have the opportunity to give back to our community!

Check out our "Virtual" Ilderton Fair competitions! For more information and to complete an entry form for the Virtual Fair Competitions click here https://forms.gle/QCBxXo7c3twdk8rd6 And for our Virtual Horse Show click here https://forms.gle/Nf98LNWfQts6fPxS7