WESTFIELD - Yeehaw.

This year’s 97th Westfield Fair has something that most other area fairs do not — a real sanctioned rodeo with cowboys and cowgirls.

But that is not all.

When the fair opens its gates on Friday for three days, fairgoers will experience agricultural and livestock exhibits, a midway that grows every year, motorized competitions, live entertainment, music, food, kid’s activities including a petting zoo, and much more, including an exhibit hall filled with flowers, vegetables, handmade items and more entered into competition.

Sheila Phelon, president of the Westfield Fair Association, said people come to the fair for different reasons.

“For many who always attend the fair, it is nostalgia. For first timers, it’s all about seeing a cow or horse up-close for the first

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