WINNEMUCCA - For many people, the Tri-County Fair is all about carnival rides and corn dogs. But for others, it's a once-a-year shot at showcasing their ability to do everything from bottling prize-winning pickles to sewing a stunningly beautiful quilt.
"This is creative competition at its best," said Darrel Field, Chairman of this year's Tri-County Fair & Stampede. Field said the Fair not only provides people with the opportunity to display their talents, but is also a way of preserving the past.
"This gives us all a chance to renew the heritage that brought us to where we are today," he said. "So many of these things are lost arts and it's great to see them brought out during the Tri-County Fair."
This year the Fair will offer competition in more than 20 divisions, including Ceramics, Crafts, Creative Arts, Crocheting, Knitting, Digital Arts, Fine Arts, Floriculture, Foods, Food Preservation, Fruits/Vegetables/ Crops, Handwork/Needlework, Photography, Quilting, Recycling, Sewing, Youth Division, and the Create-a-Picture, Write-a-Story, Coloring, Mini-Construction, Pie and Watermelon Eating, Biggest Home Grown, Mutt Show, Cake Decorating and Pet Rock contests.
To enter, simply fill out a pre-entry form by 5 p.m. Friday, August 23, and drop it off at the Winnemucca Convention Center or the Humboldt County Cooperative Extension Office.
Check-in will be held in the Exhibit Hall Meeting Room at the Winnemucca Events Complex from noon to 7 p.m. Tuesday, August 27, and from 8 a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Wednesday, August 28.
Perishable items such as floriculture, fruits and vegetables may be checked in between noon and 5 p.m. Thursday, August 29.
This year, fair exhibitors also can visit www.LaborDayFair.com to enter their exhibits online as well as download all the information they will need to participate in this year's event.
Participants may create a quick and easy user account by clicking on the menu option, "Fair Guide." Returning exhibitors will need to create a new online account. The secure site will ask only for the information necessary to process entries.
For more information on entering the 2013 Tri-County Fair, call the Winnemucca Convention Center at (775) 623-5071, ext. 102, or toll free at (800) 962-2638, ext. 102. Entrants also may call the Humboldt County Extension Office at (775) 623-6304.
A complete schedule of events is included in the 2013 Fair Guide Book. Copies are available at the Winnemucca Convention Center; the Humboldt County Extension Office; the Humboldt County Chamber of Commerce; the Humboldt County Library; the Winnemucca Events Complex office; the Paradise, Orovada and McDermitt post offices; the Battle Mountain Chamber of Commerce; the Lovelock Chamber of Commerce; or online at www.LaborDayFair.com.
Rules and pre-entry forms also are available at www.LaborDayFair.com.
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