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 to showcase everything from their prize-winning pickles to their picture-perfect petunias.
“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, Scavenger Hunt, Poodle Skirt and Shirt Decorating, King Arthur Flour Baking and Build a Robot 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 at the Winnemucca Event Center, west side, 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, 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.
Rules and pre-entry forms are available at www.LaborDayFair.com.
