Darvin Yoder, a 30+ year fair volunteer, can remember going to Kish Park as a little kid and seeing the animals washed and sparkly clean. He had never seen anything like this in his life, until he took vocational agriculture when he reached his freshman year in school and joined the FFA. That year, 1966, was the first year the Youth Park was used to hold the fair. They had a big celebration and Paul Harvey was the speaker to kick off the inaugural year. 

In the 30+ years that Darvin sat on the fair board we made many changes. The fair was a subcommittee of the Youth Park board in those days, but our committee went on our own sometime in the 1990s. In 1996 the park built our current show barn. In the early 2000s we formed an Open Show committee and went on a two year probation program with the Pennsylvania Association of County Fairs.  That resulted in the youth fair being a certified county fair allowing us to have access for Fair Funding.  This move allowed the general public to exhibit many different projects and items. From sewing and home-produced items to garden produce to woodworking and antiques. The whole county was welcome to participate. A benefit auction was created to help fund the open show. The open show added many other events including the fair queen contest, an antique tractor show, lots of country fun games, and contests. In 2020, we had our county Fair Queen, Grace Van Sciver, attended the State Pageant in Hershey. That year she was awarded the title of State Fair Queen. Over the next year, she was able to travel to fairs all over the commonwealth and not just represent our fair but PA fairs as a whole.