Register your entries by August 17

Set up days August 21-23

Now that you have made, baked, or grown your entries for the fair, you need to register them.

1. Go online and create your account with AssistExpo, then enter the Pender Island Fall Fair - select your sections and classes to enter. You can even make a donation to the fair!

2. Prepare your entry, and bring it to the Hall on Friday, August 23rd. There will be areas marked for you to drop off - kids entries will be in the bright circus tents, arts and crafts go up the outside ramp to the upper hall, and vegetables, flowers, fruit, baking, preserves, and wine and beer go to the back of the hall at the big doors.

Wednesday, August 21 - set up begins at the Pender Island Community Hall at 9:00 am and continues Thursday and Friday - Volunteers are more than welcome! Complimentary food and refreshments for volunteers. Come out and transform the Hall into the Fairgrounds!

Friday, August 23

Late in-person registration and all entry drop-off at the Community Hall 3-6 pm with the exception of livestock. Please consult catalogue - available at the Farmers’ Market, online, and at most retail outlets. Community groups can set up displays. More complimentary food and refreshments for conveners, judges and volunteers.

Please leave your dogs at home on Friday and Saturday. No dogs will be permitted in the fair grounds or hall area.

Fair Day! Saturday August 24

7-9 am - Drop off livestock at the livestock area - evening before preferred (Jodi Schamberger, convener)

9:30 am - Farmers’ Market opens and will run until 1 pm (some vendors may stay longer) - Free for public to attend the Farmers’ Market, it will be just outside the Fairgrounds.

10:00 am - Gates open. Admission will be by donation, suggested donation $7 per person, free for age 5 and under. Door prizes!

Fall Fair BBQ Tickets on sale at the Information Booth.

Raffle Tickets available for the Neptune Navy Grimmer - Ashton Ross-Smith Bursary fundraiser at the Information Booth. Thank you to Kari Amies Horbas and her crew!!

Games for Young and Old! Face Painting by Valentina courtesy of Three in the Tree.

Food area with hamburgers, hot dogs, vegetarian options, ice cream.

10:30 am - Parade to the Grounds! The Parade is free to enter, anyone can enter! (Jaime MacLean, Parade Marshall).

11:00 am - Opening Ceremony. Stage.

Guests of Honour - Pender Island Museum Society and South Pender Historical Society. Stage. Speakers Simone Marler and Rob Dill.

Beer garden opens - Sara Miles, Organizer. Proceeds go to the Community Hall.

Exhibit Hall opens after Judging is completed. Enjoy our island entertainment and outside exhibits, displays and games while you wait for the Hall to open.

11:10 am - Pender Highlanders, in front of the Stage.

11:30 am - Denny Goertz and Pender Young Violins, on Stage.

12:15 pm - Livestock Showcase - Show Ring in the “Farm Yard”.

1:00 pm - Sheep Shearing and Wool Spinning Demonstration - Pieter DeMooy and local spinners - Show Ring in the “Farm Yard”.

1:30 pm - Live entertainment, on Stage

2:15 pm - Corn Shucking, field behind the BBQ “The Farm Yard”

2:30pm - Live music, on stage -

3:30 pm - Berry Pie Contest - Main stage area, next to the Hall

3:45 pm - Trophy Presentations and Door and Silent Auction Prize Selections, on Stage

4:00 pm - The 2024 Fair Exhibits may be removed from the Hall and Tents

4:15 pm - Live music, on Stage.

5:00 pm - Barbecue is served and music continues. Barbecue organizer, Linda Deen assisted by Fred Wiercyski and Aaron Grimmer.

9:00 am - Take-down of Fair - Volunteers are more than welcome!

10:00 am - Complimentary pancake breakfast for volunteers!

And start planning for 2025!

Thank you, Pender Island!