History:
The Greene Dreher Sterling Community Fair Association got its start over 100 years ago. In 1917 school teacher Miss Ella Nevin established the fair as an opportunity to showcase her students’ handiwork. The goal was to promote the agricultural lifestyle and educate the surrounding communities about farm life and the valuable skills that can be utilized in everyday living. Since that first year, the Greene Dreher Sterling Community Fair, commonly known as the GDS Fair, has long since grown into a real, honest-to-goodness country fair with all the glitter, glamour, and noise added to the homey down-on-the-farm kind of exhibits. It’s an event for the whole family.
Locations
The Fair was originally held at an old “Community Hall” in Newfoundland. Later, it was moved from there to the Newfoundland school. Finally, the Fair had its own home on the GDS Fair fairgrounds.
