![A celebration of harvest and community, Powell River Fall Fair returns to Paradise Valley this September after a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19. Attendees, volunteers and vendors will enjoy food, agricultural displays and live music at the annual event, which has been a tradition for friends and families in the area for 90 years. At the last fair in 2019 [above], Madeleine Koop [left] and Ella Westie hung out with Echo the Pony.](https://www.vmcdn.ca/f/files/powellriverpeak/images/events/2740_fall_fair_2019_madeleine-koop_ella-westie_echo.JPG;w=960;h=640;bgcolor=000000)
Powell River Fall Fair has been part of the community “off and on” for 90 years and will be back in 2022 after a two-year pandemic hiatus, according to two of the organizers, Mark Gisborne and Juhli Jobi from Powell River Farmers’ Agricultural Institute.
This year the event is scheduled for September 24 and 25 “rain or shine, no matter what,” institute president Jobi told a recent meeting of Rotarians. “It’s an exhibition of all things local: grown, produced or made.”
In addition to food and product booths, there will be main stage entertainment and pony rides.
“Forestry Heritage Society will have trains running as well as hand carts that parents love to see their kids on to use up excess energy,” said Jobi.
Always the most popular attraction at the Fall Fair is the animal barn with livestock of different sizes.
Fair coordinator Gisborne said the group is looking for a coordinator for the exhibition barn that features baking, canning, paintings and fabric art, fresh vegetables and fruit, among other items. Entries are submitted the Friday before the fair begins so the volunteer needs to be available all that day.
For more information, email [email protected] or call 604.414.5076.
