Exhibits lined up

The nearly 200 exhibits at the North Idaho Fair and Rodeo will include automobiles, taxidermy, insurance, clothing, crafts, fire prevention education, farm equipment and a mechanical bull.

Adelphia will be demonstrating its new digital cable TV service. Unlike traditional cable systems, which use an analog signal, the new product will be transmitted digitally.

"It is extremely clear," said Ginny Chidester, Northwest area marketing manager for Adelphia. "It is just a very good-quality picture."

As part of Adelphia's digital service, customers will get 36 additional channels.

Also on display at Adelphia's exhibit will be its interactive remote system, which allows users to customize the TV Guide channel, and its digital cable music service, which provides subscribers with 44 digital music channels.

Downtown Coeur d'Alene, nearly one-third of Adelphia's service area, has digital cable service now. Adelphia soon will roll out its digital service to the rest of its customers.

"We're pricing the digital system very competitively," Chidester said. "We're getting digital service to everyone as quickly as we can."

Digital cable service is optional. The standard analog system still will be offered.

Rookie exhibitors Evelyn and Clarence Mason of Creative Crafting in Rathdrum, Idaho, will display their pewter figures at the fair. The pewter fantasy figures on agate and amethyst bases include dragons, wizards and unicorns.

The Masons can design virtually any figure in pewter. Custom orders will be taken at their booth.

Coeur d'Alene Tractor will be showcasing its industrial, farm and garden tractors.

Coeur d'Alene Tractor has been an exhibitor at the fair since 1948, when it was held at McEuen Field in downtown Coeur d'Alene.

If tractors, cable television and crafts are not for you, stop by Coeur d'Alene Dressing's display of its five salad dressings - Russian, ginger, huckleberry, apricot Dijon and toasted poppy.

Rathdrum residents Don and Peggy Alderman of Coeur d'Alene Dressing make their gourmet dressings, glazes and marinades in a commercial kitchen in the Bonner Business Center in Sandpoint.

The Aldermans' dressings are sold in 21 states in 350 specialty food and upscale grocery stores.

TheFunGuy.com of Post Falls will have a child-friendly exhibit. Jim Heberer will set up a NASCAR racetrack complete with six 16-inch remote-controlled cars and kiddie cars for children ages 10 and younger.

Cost of the remote-controlled and kiddie cars is $2.

The fair also is the perfect time to visit the Kootenai Humane Society's exhibit and adopt a pet.

Photos of animals available at the humane society will be displayed. Adoption fees range from $25 to $40.

Visitors also can support the humane society by purchasing raffle tickets for a framed watercolor garden scene, a queen-sized animalmotif quilt or a dog-themed wall hanging.

Tickets are $1 each or six for $5. The drawing will be held Aug. 27.

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