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Kimberton Fairgrounds


762 Pike Springs Road
Phoenixville, PA 19460

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The Kimberton Fair used to be a great, good old fashioned family fair with caring, decent people that had values and morals, now after my experience and I am sure others have experienced this as well, it is a fair that is filled with deceit, corruption, and people with no morals. The Kimberton Community Fair Chairperson this year, Karen Dobson, should be ashamed of herself and be embarrassed for putting on a fair that lacks everything the Kimberton Fair used to be back when it was a decent fair many years ago. Do Not Waste your time participating in the Kimberton Fair Queen Little Miss Contest or Junior Contest. The contest experience is one of the worst exhibitions I have ever experienced in my life. The Queen Contest Coordinator, Louise Kritzberger, is one of the most unorganized and unprofessional coordinators I have ever seen. She is rude, and if you are not part of the clique in her circle, you are on the outside looking in with no communication on her end. When the first meeting and judging of the contest occurred, Kritzberger was not welcoming, gave no directions on how things would work, and she never gave out a schedule for the girls to follow for Fair Week, you were basically on your own. I thought it was strange how the turnout was so incredibly low for each completion, well now I can clearly see why no one wants to waste their time. It was shocking the night of the competition, how they had the two contestants for the Fair Queen getting a massage on a table right out in front of all the other Little Miss/Junior contestants with no privacy since they had no clothes on from the waist up and the Kimberton Fair Committee cannot even give the girls a private room, how awful is that. I felt bad for the girls that the fair does not care about their feelings or giving them a chance to feel comfortable, it was very awkward. On the night of the competition, Kritzberger never came to check in on the girls to wish them luck or tell them what to expect. She sat outside on a picnic bench dressed like a slob. She doesn’t even have the respect for the contestants to dress appropriately or show them any respect. She is a disgrace and should not even hold the title of Fair Queen Coordinator because she clearly cannot handle it. There was so much favoritism going on it was sickening. I am so sorry my daughter even participated in this joke of a contest because the contest was fixed from the beginning and everyone knew it. It is stated in the contest guidelines that the Fair Queen Little Miss and Junior Miss must be able to communicate effectively to represent the fair, well for the 2 out of the 3 contestants for the Little Miss Contest; you cannot understand a word they are saying. Also, the posters that had to be submitted and judged were supposed to show creativity and no computer-based presentations. My daughter spent over 2 days drawing and doing everything by hand for competition poster and the winner just printed off photos online and labeled them, showing no effort or thought at all. If you do not follow the guidelines, you should be disqualified, so what is the use of even having the guidelines when they clearly do not abide by them. I guess if you are not a sponsor or have a family member who sponsor’s the fair, you do not matter and you don’t have a fair chance at winning. The guidelines also state that the Junior Miss Fair Queen should be and act respectful, well that is a real joke, because myself, my daughter and others witnessed the new Junior Fair Queen using disrespectful foul language. It is a real shame that all the goodness the Kimberton Fair once had is gone forever. I am astonished how Karen Dobson and the Kimberton Fair Committee have run this fair into the ground. They all have no morals and everyone can see just how low the Kimberton Fair sets their standards for the Fair Queen Competition. When it was time for Karen Dobson to open the fair on Monday evening with her announcements and emcee the Fair Queen contest, it was a total botched up mess. She was messing up names and so unsure of everything going on but I guess it is no surprise since the whole Queen contest was a disorganized mess from the start. She should be embarrassed for putting on a display like that in front of everyone and so should everyone on the Kimberton Fair Committee. The stage the completion was held on was pathetic. It was so small, that all the contestants could not fit on the stage and they had to sit down off the stage on the grass on chairs with the hot sun beating on them. Shame on them all for displaying such favoritism and for showing us all that Kimberton Fair is filled with cheating. The Little Miss and Junior Fair Queen Contests were a clear example. It seems like from the very beginning my daughter was iced out. It was very obvious every time Karen Dobson saw us she would give us all nasty glares. Karen Dobson is currently the State Director for the PA State Association of County Fairs and oversaw the livestock exhibits for many years at the Kimberton Fair and the winner of the Little Miss Competition this year shows her cows along with her family at the Kimberton Fair and the PA State Fairs Karen Dobson is at. It seems awfully suspicious to me that something was set up before this competition even started. My daughter clearly understands you cannot always be a winner in life, but to be totally robbed of something due to favoritism on the Kimberton Fair Committee and on Karen Dobson’s part is not right. My daughter will not ever enter any PA state fair contests as long as Karen Dobson is associated with them. On a brighter note, I would like to thank the nice lady making and packaging the donuts for showing such kindness to my middle son. She is one of the few good ones the fair has left. It’s a shame how the donut volunteers who work so hard and do not get the recognition they deserve as well. It is sad that the fair has such low standards but I guess that is what is wrong with the world today. It seems almost everyone can be bought these days, there is favoritism, and cheating, filled with people who are totally unqualified to do their positions, whereof they should never be in that position to begin with. This is what the Kimberton Fair has turned into and the good old fashioned Kimberton Fair that was good years ago has disintegrated.

Service on Jul 25