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Dunn, Kent crowned senior royalty: Portage County-Randolph Fair continues today
August 29, 2009
By Matt Fredmonsky
Record-Courier staff writer
The senior royalty received their crowns Friday at the Portage County-Randolph Fair.
Robert Dunn, 81, of Rootstown and Betty Kent, 75, of Ravenna were named senior fair king and queen at the entertainment building Friday afternoon on Senior Citizen and Veteran’s Day at the fair.
Dunn, a current member of the Rootstown Board of Education, also served as the Stow superintendent and once sought the Portage County treasurer’s post. On Friday he represented the Rootstown 60-plus Club. He has four children and four grandchildren and has resided within the county his entire life.
Kent represented the Longmeadow Care Center. A 31-year county resident, she enjoys reading, crocheting, cake decorating and cooking.
The first runner-up for senior fair king was 91-year-old Robert O’Brien of Ravenna. Second runner-up was Edward Warnchick, 82, of Ravenna.
The first runner-up for senior fair queen was Betty Warnchick, 73, of Ravenna. Second runner-up was Wilma Franks, 84, of Atwater and third runner-up for queen was Opal Hartman, 78, of Suffield.
Portage County Auditor Janet Esposito introduced the nominees and joked with them, as did fair board president Charles Breiding.
Breiding reminded the crowd of seniors gathered at the Entertainment Building about the PARTA buses parked nearby to provide air conditioning.
“But it’s nice and cool, so we’re not going to have to put up with all that hot air, except for me,” Breiding said.
One-hundred-year-old Rootstown resident Mildred Price made it to the fair Friday with her niece, Louise Staats of Rootstown.
Staats said Price is a life-long county resident. She lived in Edinburg briefly and taught in both Atwater and Ravenna.
Price has attended the fair nearly every year, Staats said.
“I can’t guarantee all 100, but most of her life she’s been coming to the fair,” Staats said.
The fair continues today with the dog agility show starting things off at 8 a.m. and the junior fair steer auction set for 5 p.m. Gates open at 7 a.m., and admission is $4 for adults, $1 for children ages 6 to 11 and free for kids under 6.
The fair wraps up Sunday with the final grandstand event, the Rough Truck Contest, set to begin at 3:30 p.m.
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