Davis County Fair

SYRACUSE -- If "Livestock Jeopardy" becomes a television game show, four Davis County teens could clean up as contestants.

FARMINGTON -- Stingrays will be part of the 2012 Davis County Fair.

Not stingrays of the classic muscle-car variety, but live swimming stingrays, like the ones out of a Disney sea-life adventure film.

The exotic fish display is nothing new for the county fair, which last year featured a rattlesnake act and in previous years spotlighted animals such as tigers and alligators -- complete with an alligator wrestler.

FARMINGTON — Davis County Fair patrons this summer donated more than 6 tons of food to the Family Connection Center.

The county fair, Aug. 17-20 at the Legacy Events Center, offered patrons a parking rate discount in exchange for a nonperishable food item.

Fair attendees donated 12,855 pounds of food during the four-day event, said Megan Hatch, Davis County Fair coordinator. The total amount of food delivered to the Family Connection Center in Clearfield and Layton is 1,855 pounds more than what officials collected at last year’s event.

The Davis County Fair and rodeo was all about good times, right?

Unfortunately, the smiles were gone sooner than expected for rodeo clown Slim Garner who left Farmington last Saturday night after working the PRCA Rodeo.

As Garner traveled south, his 53-foot trailer caught fire in Southern Utah.

FARMINGTON -- Tage, a 4-year-old Labrador retriever, cooled off at the Davis County Fair on Wednesday by making a spectacular 12-foot-plus horizontal plunge into the pool in pursuit of his float toy.

FARMINGTON -- Using an old truck as a promotional ploy could entice additional drivers to compete in the Davis County Fair's demolition derby.

In addition to $12,000 in prize money available at this year's annual derby, the county has added to the prize package a 1989 Chevy pickup truck wrapped in a new "The Truth" anti-tobacco campaign message.