All’s fair: Competitors know what it takes to win at Puyallup Fair
These competitors know what it takes to win cooking contests at the Puyallup Fair – and they have the ribbons to prove it. Slicing and mixing, boiling and baking for hours at a time doesn’t normally make the to-do list for a steamy summer day – unless you’re a perennial ribbon-winner at the Puyallup Fair.(Info about Apple ribbons)

Hey Freshman, do you remember...?
Every year, Beloit College releases its "mindset list" for its incoming freshman class. The idea, says the school, was to create "a reminder to faculty to be aware of dated references." But, as it says, it "quickly became a catalog of the rapidly changing worldview of each new generation."(Info about Apple ribbons)

Kaua‘i Grown overflows into open judging for pies
LIHU‘E — Tammi Andersland had to stop at the Lihu‘e Patriots’Pop Warner food booth for coffee Saturday.(Info about Apple ribbons)

Many winners at this year’s Gravenstein Fair
Last week, the Sebastopol Area Chamber of Commerce announced Joann Kawa and her Crumb Apple Pie the “Grand Champion” Apple Pie Baker for 2010. Kawa had never entered her pies before.(Info about Apple ribbons)

Mindset List
Every year, Beloit College in Beloit, Wis., releases its Mindset List to give a snapshot of the world view of the incoming freshmen class.(Info about Apple ribbons)

Lisa's Laws: Loving those local fairs, country living's finest
I love fairs. Love them. I love county fairs and fire department fairs, apple festivals and blueberry festivals, and faires where everyone is speaking like Robin Hood.(Info about Apple ribbons)