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#41 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 05 February 2015 - 04:35 PM

What about the fair?  Is that still going on?

 

The website still shows all last year's info, and WestCoast amusements (rides, midway) has yet to list their 2015 events schedule online.


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#42 Bingo

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Posted 05 February 2015 - 11:15 PM

CFAX is reporting the Luxton Rodeo has been cancelled this year.

 

Instead of protesting the calf roping and the pie eating contest, the protester will all be over in Oak Bay protesting the deer cull.



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Posted 09 February 2015 - 05:52 AM

CFAX now reports that the fair and midway will proceed this Victoria Day long weekend.
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Posted 13 July 2015 - 06:29 AM

The Calgary Stampede features chuckwagon races, this article says it's pretty cruel and deadly for horses.

 

Like yesterday.

 

An outrider horse was euthanized after it was injured during Sunday's Calgary Stampede chuckwagon races, making it the fourth horse to die during this year's Rangeland Derby. 

Two other horses were euthanized following separate chuckwagon racing incidents earlier in the week. 

A horse belonging to chuckwagon driver Layne Bremner suffered a broken leg during the sixth heat of the Rangeland Derby on July 4, while a crash last Monday left one of driver B.J. Carey's horses with a serious injury to a joint above its hoof. 

Driver error is being blamed for the two deaths. 

The chuckwagon races are the deadliest Stampede event for horses, with more than 50 deaths over the last 20 years.

http://www.cbc.ca/ne...-race-1.3138906



#45 lanforod

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 07:13 AM

There are very few rodeos that have chuck-wagon races anymore. Businesses used to support it, and few do now.



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Posted 13 July 2015 - 09:47 AM

^ Sad. They are the only part of the rodeo I will watch.


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#47 jonny

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 01:52 PM

It is a pity that animals get injured and have to be put down. However, I suspect that vast majority of rodeo animals are treated like royalty, especially when they are at the pinnacle of the rodeo circuit.



#48 gumgum

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 05:14 PM

Wild horses? Bulls? Calves? I doubt it.

#49 LJ

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 07:11 PM

It is a pity that animals get injured and have to be put down. However, I suspect that vast majority of rodeo animals are treated like royalty, especially when they are at the pinnacle of the rodeo circuit.

The truth is if there was no rodeo's these animals for the most part would be put down, they cost money to feed and house.


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Posted 13 July 2015 - 07:49 PM

The truth is if there was no rodeo's these animals for the most part would be put down, they cost money to feed and house.

 

 

Or they wouldn't have been bred in the first place.


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#51 Nparker

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Posted 13 July 2015 - 07:50 PM

Or they wouldn't have been bred in the first place.

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#52 LJ

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Posted 14 July 2015 - 08:07 PM

Or they wouldn't have been bred in the first place.

Yeah, but they are here now.


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#53 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 18 September 2016 - 08:18 AM

Luxton Fair reports dismal numbers yesterday.  On the bright side, those that went could ride rides all day with no lines.

 

I guess going up against "free day" around town was tough.  Plus that weather to start.


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Posted 18 September 2016 - 12:02 PM

Luxton Fair reports dismal numbers yesterday.  On the bright side, those that went could ride rides all day with no lines.

 

I guess going up against "free day" around town was tough.  Plus that weather to start.

 

They need to have some chuck-wagon races and maybe a bull-fighting ring.


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#55 VicHockeyFan

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Posted 18 September 2016 - 12:20 PM

They need to have some chuck-wagon races and maybe a bull-fighting ring.

 

Or a live abattoir display.


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#56 57WestHills

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Posted 18 September 2016 - 07:20 PM

Or anything lol. I was there for about thirty seconds because it's a ten minute walk from my house. Obviously I'm not the demographic of choice but I'm willing to pay a lot for bad food and still left with nothing.
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Posted 20 May 2019 - 06:43 PM

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Posted 21 May 2019 - 07:20 AM

If that is measuring 80 db that far away its well above safe levels if you are on or operating it

#59 Jason-L

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Posted 21 May 2019 - 01:44 PM

If that is measuring 80 db that far away its well above safe levels if you are on or operating it

Indeed.  One wonders if perhaps hyperbole was deployed to exaggerate the effect.



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Posted 21 September 2023 - 12:42 PM

Luxton Fall Fair a celebration of agriculture in the region

 

 

The Westshore celebrates its agricultural roots with the Luxton Fall Fair, at the Luxton Fairgrounds, Friday to Sunday.

 

This is the 113th year the fair, jointly hosted by the Metchosin Farmers Institute and Luxton Fair Committee.

 

The event features chicken agility races, antique farm equipment, blacksmithing and a display on the history of Happy Valley at the Heritage Museum.

 

Check out the various entries and winners in the baking, vegetables, photographs and kids crafts competitions.

 

Watch wheat berries being ground into flour, learn how to ferment or can food, view local art or watch a miniature train display.

 

If you get hungry, you can grab a piece of homemade pie with ice cream or bite into a hot corn on the cob.

 

The midway features rides and games until 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 6 p.m. Sunday.

 

Admission is by donation. The fair runs 3 to 10 p.m. for the midway only on Friday. The displays at the fair are open noon to 7 p.m. Saturday and noon to 6 p.m. Sunday. The event is held at the Luxton Fairgrounds, 1040 Marwood Ave., Langford.

 

Parking entrance is now off Sooke Road, across from Ronald Road. The fairgrounds is on B.C. Transit route 55 Happy Valley and cyclists can reach it via the Galloping Goose Regional Trail.

 

For more information, go to luxtonfair.ca

 

 

 

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Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 September 2023 - 12:42 PM.


 



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