Chronicle-Telegram Managing Editor Julie Wallace was at the Lorain County Fair Monday afternoon.

While there, she greeted fairgoers, took questions from readers and handed out free Chronicles. And she even made a little time to be interviewed live by WEOL-AM 930’s Tim Alcorn.

Wallace explained The Chronicle’s coverage of the Lorain County Fair, which this year includes live blogging from the tent The Chronicle is sharing with WEOL.

The Chronicle is “putting all kinds of stuff on the Web all day, so you don’t have to wait for the next day to see all the fair stuff” in the paper, Wallace said.

Listen to Julie Wallace on WEOL-AM 930.

The Lorain-Medina Rural Electric Cooperative is demonstrating efficient heating and cooling at the LMRE house at the Lorain County Fair.

The house is entirely heated and cooled — and “mostly cooled this week we hope,” said LMRE’s Terry Mazzone — with geothermal power.

The LMRE house at the fair is “a great way for us to easily demonstrate a very efficient heating and cooling system,” Mazzone said.

Listen to WEOL-AM 930’s interview with LMRE’s Terry Mazzone.

Visitors can learn about energy efficiency and find out ways to save money on their own energy costs.

LMRE is working with the Rural Lorain County Water Authority, showing “electric and water do mix,” Mazzone said.

Fairgoers pass the LMRE house at the Lorain County Fair. The house, heated and cooled using geothermal energy, has information on energy efficiency and tips to save money on energy costs. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Contact Rona Proudfoot at rproudfoot@chroniclet.com, (440) 371-0792 or stop by to see her at the fair. She’s based at the WEOL booth and will be wondering the fairgrounds in a bright gold Chroniclet.com T-shirt.

Curtas Foster stopped by the WEOL and Chronicle-Telegram booth at the Lorain County Fair Monday afternoon and got his picture taken with WEOL sports announcer Tim Alcorn.

Curtas, a 2005 graduate of Marion L. Steele High School in Amherst, said he has lived in Lorain County for seven years (he lived in Arizona before that) but had never before been to the Lorain County Fair.

What brought him out this year? A friend’s kid was showing a cow, he said. He described his first fair as “interesting …”

While chatting with Alcorn, Foster picked up a Forecast high school sports magazine from WEOL. Foster said he had a lot of high school friends who played sports and is a big fan of local high school sports.

WEOL sports announcer Tim Alcorn chats with Curtas Foster, who stopped by the WEOL and Chronicle-Telegram tent at the Lorain County Fair Monday afternoon. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Do you want to be on Chroniclet.com? Stop by the tent the Chronicle is sharing with WEOL (by Sterk American Cafeteria) and ask me to take your picture. If I’m not here, look for me out and about around the fairgrounds in my bright gold Chroniclet.com T-shirt.

You won’t get into the Lorain County Fair without seeing these smiling faces. They’re the friendly fair ticket takers.

They’re paid fair employees, and they’ll all be working all seven days of the fair. Some are even pulling double shifts, calling themselves workaholics.

So come down to the fair, say hi, give them your ticket, let them stamp your hand and tell them you saw them on Chroniclet.com.

They are, from left, Amanda West of Wellington, Ashley West of Wellington, Ken Woods of Elyria, Jacob Woods of Elyria, Jerrod Miller of Lorain, Michael Miller of Lorain, Robert Steele of Lorain and Diane Boskovitch of Lorain.

(Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Do you want to be on Chroniclet.com? Stop by the tent the Chronicle is sharing with WEOL (by Sterk American Cafeteria) and ask me to take your picture. If I’m not here, look for me out and about around the fairgrounds in my bright gold Chroniclet.com T-shirt.