Wednesday, July 3 2019 — 15
Mother Lode Fair 2019
Sonora, California
Racing pigs, a funnymagician and Captain Encouragement If pigs are your thing, there are plenty of them at the Mother Lode Fair. all four days of the fair. Louie started performing as a File photo / Union Democrat (left); courtesy photos (above and right) Captain Encouragement (left), Cook’s Racing Pigs (center) and magician Louie Foxx (right) are among the free entertainment offered at this year’s Mother Lode Fair.
frown-fighting superhero, Cap- tain Encouragement, will share his message of positivity all four days of the fair. Captain Encouragement’s goal of perpetuating positive change in the world teaches kids how to solve real-life issues without violence. His superpow- ers are “infections positivity and the ability to encourage people to do their best and spread kindness,” according to the Cap- tain Encouragement website. Other free activities at the fair will include cider tasting by Indigeny and dance demonstra- tions.
kid doing magic tricks and now is a two-time Guinness World Record and has appeared on “Guinness World Records Unleashed,” “New Day” and “America’s Got Talent!” His show is an interactive com- edy, magic and juggling show that has been hailed by the Society of American Magicians. The Inter- national Brotherhood of Magi- cians have called his magic tricks “incredible!”
In addition to the washed and trimmed show-ready pigs in the livestock barn, a passel of pigs will rev up their engines to race for spectators. Charlie Cook of Cook’s Racing Pigs and his four pot-bellied pigs have performed at the Mother Lode Fair in the past to the delight of spectators. The four little pigs race 90 feet around a horseshoe-shaped course and are rewarded with vanilla ice cream and a cookie at the end. Spectators can bet, for free, on which pig will win, and winners receive a shirt that says “My Pig Won,” a hat or a blue ribbon. When not racing, the pigs are housed in a custom-built trailer that Cook calls the “Bacon Barn.” Cook comes froma pig-raising family and showed pigs in 4-Hand FFA as a child and teen.He quit a job as a fire sprinkler fitter in 1993 to take his show on the road full time. Races will be held at 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and at 4, 6, 7:30 and 9 p.m. Saturday and Sunday. Magic (and comedy, and juggling) show Magician Louie Foxx will present his One-Man Side Show
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