Gabrielle Bilodeau-Marsh crushes an egg during the youth division of the egg drop contest. Peter Feddema set a record at the egg drop competition, with a height of 60-feet. Wayne Dutton won the wing-eating contest for the fourth year running, and will now retire.

Jeff Forsyth announced the chicken chariot races. Kerry Cucharenko was tops for adults, while Connor Boyko won the youth class.

Kristi Heath, right, finds herself a new dance partner in Brian Treble during the performance by professional buskers Heath and Greg Tarlin Saturday afternoon at the Fairgrounds.

Clarence Vander Hout was busy raising awareness and funds for the Special Olympics via a Truckers Convoy.

PoultryFest a clucking success

Published on Jul 04, 2008

Early morning showers couldn't stop a year's worth of community spirit from shining through at PoultryFest in Smithville, Saturday.

The one-day celebration of everything chicken was once again a successful venture, said festival chairman Steve Ecker.

"The committee did a really good job of reacting to the pouring rain, and things looked pretty good," he said.

Loads of gravel and shavings were spread to keep the mud down, and keep the Smithville fairgrounds from really turning into a chicken coop.

"We were really thrilled with the turnout," said Ecker. "Obviously it's something that people want to do, when they're willing to show up on a poor day."

All of the family-related events "shone" throughout the day, he added.