The Potomac Highlands Dispatch
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Related links
* Allegany County Fair & Ag Expo website
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Area 4-H participants Darrell Stonestreet (left), Garrett Slider, and Jennifer Stonestreet stand with Tractor Supply representatives Dick Shewbridge (in hat) and Chris Vanfosson, store manager. The LaVale store helped the animals in the barn at the 2011 Allegany County Fair & Ag Expo beat the heat by providing three industrial fans.
Local store offers industrial
fans to Fair & Ag Expo livestock
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For The Potomac Highlands Dispatch
CUMBERLAND, July 21 -- You think it's hot outside? Try being covered with fur.
Hundreds of animals being judged in the 2011 Allegany County Fair & Ag Expo felt a bit of reprieve from the oppressive heat wave that hit the Mid-Atlantic states this week after a local store donated three industrial fans for the barn.
The fans, delivered to the Allegany County Fairgrounds on Thursday by Tractor Supply in LaVale and store representatives Dick Shewbridge and Chris Vanfosson, store manager, "helped the health of the many animals exhibited" at the fair, officials said.
"They offered their services freely and without reservation," fair representatives said.
It's the latest in a long show of support for the fair. Tractor Supply "has generously supported our scholarship fund for the last several years as well as providing awards for Showmanship for animal class exhibits at the fair," officials said.
In a news release, Ag Expo officials offered a salute to Tractor Supply "for being a support of our youth, 4H and FFA programs as well as the Ag Expo and Fair."