The annual country fair, which celebrates the incorporation of Granby as a town in 1768, includes everything from a pie-baking contest to helicopter rides.
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Old Country Road will perform bluegrass music on Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Granby Charter Days Fair.GRANBY – Cow Patty Bingo. Don’t expect to find it in any parish hall, but look for it on June 10 at Granby’s three-day mega-fair called “Charter Days,” Friday through Sunday at Dufresne Park in Granby.
The annual country fair, which celebrates the incorporation of Granby as a town in 1768, includes everything from a pie-baking contest to helicopter rides, a petting zoo, food vendors and fireworks.
Admission is $5 for parking.
The fair draws visitors from miles around, said Micheline Turgeon, co-chair of the fair with Richard Gaj. “We’ve had people come from as far away as the New Hampshire border,” she said.
This year’s fair will bring back a Saturday road race that has been absent recently and a Sunday tractor pull that was introduced last year.
Turgeon said her favorite attractions are the ones with the flavor of an old country fair, like the knitting contest.
For live music, she looked for bands with an ethnic flavor. Although she hasn’t found a band to represent Granby’s many residents with French roots like hers, fair-goers will be treated to Irish and Polish tunes by the Celtic band The Cabeys and the polka band Mark VI.
Also performing during the three-day run will be The Regulators, Freedom Street, Midlife Crisis, the Dave Collucci Show, the Bluegrass band Old Country Road and the Heart tribute band Crazy on You.
The Cow Patty Bingo is a new feature. Dorothy Tatro explained how it works as she sold tickets at a table she had set up at the town election recently
Tatro and her team will draw a grid of up to 500 squares on the ground on Sunday morning and assign a ticket number to each square. William Clark, who owns a farm in Granby and shows his cattle at the Big E, will provide the cow.
Tickets are $20, and all proceeds from the unusual bingo game will go to an organization called Homes for Our Troops, which arranged for a custom home to be built for wounded Afghanistan veteran Joshua Bouchard of Granby.
The Tatro family has become a major supporter of the cause, with dad Paul donating the heating and air conditioning for Bouchard’s new house, mom lining up youngsters to cheer Bouchard as he arrived for the house-raising, and daughter Heather holding “penny wars” at school to pay for a Marine flag and holder on the property.
More evidence that Granby has a big heart: Fairgoers are asked to bring an item of nonperishable food for donation to the Granby Food Pantry.
