It's Magic at the Boundary County Fair!
August 5, 2013
Hot on the heels of a wildly successful All School Reunion (pictures and story coming soon!), folks have been working hard for the summer's next big event, the Boundary County Fair, which is just over a week away.

While the fair doesn't officially start until Wednesday, August 14, the bustle of fair time has long been underway, and it gets more intense with each passing day. It's not just Sandy Schnepf, Roy Krohmer, the fair board or the Extension Office staff whose days are hectic, either.

Kids and adults are busy getting their exhibits polished up and ready to enter; livestock is getting groomed and cleaned and worked to be ready for show, fair supervisors have been hard at work getting everything ready in their departments.

While those who've witnessed the bustle of pre-fair activity, as well as those scurrying in the midst sometimes how it will ever come together in time, somehow, it always does.

It makes this year's theme, "It's Magic at the Boundary County Fair," especially apt.

It will become apparent to the casual viewer on Tuesday, August 13, when the opening pieces start falling into place.

Between 7 and 8 a.m., 4-H and FFA students will be entering and weighing in market and breeding swine. Starting at 7 a.m. and lasting all day, folks will be setting up exhibits and displays on the pavilion, in the exhibit hall and on the grounds.

From 8:30 to 9:30 a.m., 4-H and FFA market and breeding sheep and market goats will be weighed in and entered, from 10 to 11 a.m. the market and breeding beef.

From 3 to 7 p.m., 4-H home economics and miscellaneous projects will be entered, as will all 4-H record books and open class livestock, rabbits and poultry and 4-H/FFA poultry and rabbit. (No small animal entries until 7 a.m. Wednesday).

Open class exhibits will be entered between 5 and 7 p.m., as will entries in the Little Princess/Prince coloring contests.

By 7 p.m., the fairgrounds will, as if by magic, be ready for opening day!

More details on events once the fair gets underway will be published in the days ahead ... please stay tuned, and I'm looking forward to seeing you at the Boundary County Fair!