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2020
What the record holds: This entry is short because the record, searched, is short, and the leg prints it at its true size rather than borrow another fair's year. As of March 2020 the fair stood planned on its usual dates: the Lakeville Lions Club's March 2020 newsletter, the club that has kept a food booth at the fair since 1944, carried the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair on its calendar for 3 to 11 July at the fairgrounds, with the club's fair work days set in April. One cancellation from that summer is documented by name: the rodeo association's archive lists the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair's world championship rodeo, scheduled for 4 and 5 July 2020 in South Bend, as canceled. Beyond the rodeo, no source found, the fair's own site included, states in so many words whether the full 2020 fair was held, reduced to its 4-H judging, or cancelled outright, and the fair's own history, which claims many years of continuous fairs, does not address the year. The Indiana State Fair was cancelled in 2020, but that is the state fair's record and this section does not borrow it. What became of the 2020 St.
Sources:
- Lakeville Lions Club newsletter (March 2020) (the fair carried on the calendar for 3 to 11 July 2020 at the fairgrounds; the club's fair work days).
- IPRA rodeo association, July 2020 archive (the St. Joseph County 4-H Fair world championship rodeo, 4 and 5 July 2020, listed as canceled).
- St. Joseph County 4-H Fair, About page (the "many years of continuous fairs" framing; no 2020 entry in the history as read).