Two fairs indeed overlap!

Good grief! I did not realize it, as often I do things at a 100-mph clip, that the Pope County Fair and Stearns County Fair completely overlap one another next week. An eagle-eyed reader of my newspaper asked me about this early Friday morning, and I was basically flat-footed when thinking about it. This is how crazy the month has been. I never got around to actually looking up any information on the Stearns County Fair...I added the full fair schedule for Stearns County in this week's Bonanza Valley Voice and didn't have to lay an eye on it, as it was loaned graciously to me by the Sauk Centre Herald newspaper in what newspaper's call a "camera ready" format. This is a huge, huge thing in the newspaper world, as it means you essentially have no extra work to get it ready for press. You do a "click, click, click" of the mouse and bam!...it's ready for press.

I need to cut this post short and get out in the garden. I'd say within the last 24 hours, the family garden has gone to a moisture deficit and now will need consistent watering until our next rainfall from Mother Nature.

Friday night updates...
In addition to coaching a 3-on-3 team at Kerkhoven Town and Country Days on Saturday, part of this weekend will be dominated by the monumental task of uploading nearly 1,400 Bonanza Valley Days photos from two weeks ago. I got the kick-off event photos uploaded from the BVD Worship in the Park on Thursday, July 11. You can see that album by clicking here: https://shorturl.at/p8tyj.

I have added more summer sports albums to the Bonanza Valley Voice SmugMug online gallery. One just added is also from July 11, when the B-B-E Jaguars fastpitch team hosted Upsala to conclude their regular 17-U season. This is the link to use to find that album: https://shorturl.at/2suJ7. At the tail end of that album are pictures featuring Coach Funk getting doused by the water cooler by two players.

County Fair time

The schedule for the Stearns County Fair in Sauk Centre was published on page four of the July 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice newspaper. Also on that page were pictures from the Pope County Fair in Glenwood.

The fair in Sauk Centre runs now through Sunday.

Below is a video clip from the end of the musical in Terrace...photos from that were on pages seven and 12 of the July 28 issue of the Bonanza Valley Voice.


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Stearns County Fair is underway!

The fairway started to pick up with traffic as Demolition Derby time approached.

Below, part of the Stearns County Fair 4-H Sheep Show, including Erin Anderson of the Northfork Livewires 4-H Club...
 

It's been a busy week wrapping up Sinclair Lewis Days coverage in Sauk Centre and then switching gears to the Stearns County Fair, which runs through Sunday. Tomorrow (Friday), the Belgrade/Brooten and Elrosa 5th-6th grade teams travel to Kerkhoven for a tournament. The wheels keep turning...


Click on the following link to see part of the first heat of tonight's Demolition Derby in Sauk Centre:
http://saukherald.com/main.asp?SectionID=94&SubSectionID=381&NewsVideoID=136

More from the Stearns County Fair last weekend

The Northfork Livewires 4-H club worked the food stand at the 4-H building on Friday evening, July 29.


A photo album with 80 pictures from the 4-H Blue Ribbon Auction has been uploaded to the Sauk Centre Herald website. The link to the album is: http://saukherald.mycapture.com/mycapture/folder.asp?event=1297872&CategoryID=65924&ListSubAlbums=0

Stearns County Fair 4-H Blue Ribbon Auction held on Friday night

Below, North Fork Livewires 4-H club member Erin Anderson brings her market steer through the Blue Ribbon Auction on Friday night...

Stearns County 4-H Clubs get into action today for non-livestock entry judging

A video clip from the early evening hours tonight at the Stearns County fairgrounds...

Who's excited for the Stearns County Fair?

The Stearns County Fair runs this week, Wednesday through Sunday...plus, 4-H judging begins on Tuesday afternoon at 2:00...