OLEY, PA. – The annual Oley Valley Community Fair has become a tradition for many.<\/p>\n
“I’ve attended every fair every year because I just love the Oley Fair,” said 98-year-old Virginia Reichert.<\/p>\n
Reichert helped cut the ribbon Thursday at this year’s opening ceremony. She says she still remembers the first-ever Oley Fair.<\/p>\n
“They had a lot of tents all over the place, and it was all lit up like I’ve never seen it before,” said Reichert.<\/p>\n
Even after 79 years, she says visiting the fair has never gotten old.<\/p>\n
“There are so many things going on; I look forward to them,” said Reichert<\/p>\n
The fair has animals, live music, rides, special events, and baked goods.<\/p>\n
“A lot of labor, a lot of time went into it,”<\/p>\n
Walking inside the fair, one of the first things you’ll see is the bake sale and cider stall, which has become a tradition for seniors like Anaya Brown at the Oley Valley High School, the senior class president.<\/p>\n
“We get credits towards our senior class trip, our prom ticket, once they’re all tallied up at the end of the year,” said Brown.<\/p>\n
For nearly 60 years, the senior class has been involved with picking apples for cider and spending hours baking hundreds of baked goods.<\/p>\n
“It just brings everybody together, and who doesn’t want to make baked goods and buy some baked goods?” said Brown.<\/p>\n
The bake sale benefits the community and the Oley High School Class of 2027.<\/p>\n
“The fact that I’m able to do it for my senior year and be able to contribute and give back to the community is just so fulfilling,” said Brown.<\/p>\n
The fair will continue through Friday and Saturday this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"OLEY, PA. – The annual Oley Valley Community Fair has become a tradition for many. “I’ve attended every…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288546,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[214,128,130,129,213],"class_list":["post-288545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-reading-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288545","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=288545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}