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Mount Vernon News reported last year, officials shuttered last year’s “senior fair,” which would have included grandstand events, most food vendors, merchant exhibits and other displays. (Last year’s “junior fair,” including 4-H and agricultural competitions, plus harness racing, operated business as usual.)
But as June 2 of 2021 rolled around, Gov. Mike DeWine ended all pandemic health orders, including the mask mandate. Hence, the fair resumed as the event familiar to Knox Countians.
According to the fair’s website, livestock competitions, tractor pulls (big and small), demolition derbies, Rough Trucks, food vendors and enough “rides to make you dizzy” have returned.
This is part of a series MVPs of summer which chronicles the people who make summer happen.
MANSFIELD – Rachel Shapiro and Emma Swain love working with kids and see part of their counselor jobs as creating special memories for their campers.
Shapiro and Swain work at the Mansfield Parks & Recreation Summer Camp at Memorial Park. About 80 campers a week take part in the program, which runs until Aug. 20.
Shapiro, 18, has been coming to the Mansfield camp since she was 5 years old. This is her second year as a counselor.
“I’ve been going to this camp for so long (becoming a counselor) was the next step,” she said. “This camp is kind of like my home.”