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Clarke fair opens Monday
Tens of thousands are expected to flock to Berryville next week for the week-long Clarke County Fair.
The fair, one of the largest agricultural shows in Virginia, begins Monday, Aug. 19 and continues through Saturday, Aug. 24. Last year’s 29th annual fair drew 70,000 people to the small town of2,000 residents.
This yearns fair is expected to be one of the biggest ever. "If the inquires and phone calls are any indication, we’ll have more things on exhibit than ever,” said Fair Chairman Bobby Leake. The fair is sponsored by the local Ruritan Club.
The fair features an array of activities, including livestock and poultry judging, horticultural exhibits, a beauty contest, arts and craft shows, a week-long carnival, art and photography exhibits, a pet show, a tractor pull, and a horse and pony show.
As a special attraction the fair offers some stellar entertainment. Lew DeWitt, a former member of the Statler Brothers, will be on stage at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, Aug. 20. Popular country music star Jim Ed Brown is scheduled for the following night at 8:30.
Attorney general strikes law
FREDERICKSBURG — State police aren’t shedding any tears over the apparent death of a law which required drivers to stay in the right lane unless passing or turning.
“It was not our law,” said Lt. P.C. Hollandsworth, who had advised a legislative committee that penned the statute. “We had questions about its enforcement and the attorney general’s office has answered that question.”
Attorney General William Broaddus, calling the keepto-the-right law confusing and unenforceable, virtually killed the measure in a July 23 opinion.
The law, passed by the 1986 General Assembly and on the books since July 1, “will not have any substantive impact upon present motor vehicle law or upon the duties of your officers in enforcing it,” Broaddus said in a letter to State Police Superintendent R.L. Suthard.
Hollandsworth said the problem was a pesky subparagraph that outlined exceptions to the stay-to-the-right concept.
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