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Welcome to the 2009 Boulder County Fair!

Dear Fairgoers: Thank you for joining us to celebrate the 140th anniversary of the Boulder County Fair, Livestock Show & Rodeo! A Boulder County tradition since 1869, Colorado’s oldest county fair is a fun-filled community event for both kids and adults to enjoy. With free parking and gate admission, the fair provides affordable family entertainment that you can enjoy again and again.

This year’s celebration kicks off with an old-fashioned ice cream social and free live music from Kelly J & Code 4 on the Fair Garden Stage. We also offer family events and carnival rides, as well as 4-H and FFA exhibits and educational opportunities throughout the fair week, which runs July 31-Aug. 8.

As your Boulder County Commissioners, we greatly value our farming heritage and welcome you in celebrating this important annual event. We also gratefully acknowledge the community’s ongoing support for our county’s progressive land preservation efforts and initiatives dedicated to local farming and rural preservation.

Together, we are helping to safeguard the future of agriculture in Boulder County.

We believe, too, that we can help honor our rich, rural history by continuing to conserve natural resources in our everyday lives. Again this year, you will see recycling and composting bins located throughout the fair as we work towards our goal of “Zero Waste.” All food and drink concessions are providing compostable serviceware, which allows us to compost all food scraps and corn-based containers — including the bowls, plates, forks and cups.

By sorting your recyclables and compostables and putting them in the correct bins, you will help us generate less trash and create a better environment at the fair and for Boulder County.

We would like to extend a warm welcome to everyone attending and participating in the 2009 Boulder County Fair, Livestock Show & Rodeo. We hope to see you there.

— Boulder County Commissioners Cindy Domenico, Ben Pearlman, Will Toor

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‘City kid’ ready to compete Story and photos by Pierrette J. Shields LONGMONT — Alex Martinez’s early efforts at caring for Oinkers left her under hoof and smarting from the pig’s exerted dominance.

“At first it was very scary,” Martinez said. “I was scared and my pig could sense that, so she attacked me.”

However, the 13-year-old, selfdescribed “city kid” decided she wasn’t going to stay down on the farm, and has in the past six months risen to become a standout hand at the Mountain States Show Club farm north of Longmont.

Oinkers, a 195-pound Duroc pig, now takes her orders from Martinez in the form of loud claps to the pig’s rump and sides

or leads from a stick.

Martinez also cares for Precious, a 124-pound Hampshirecross pig, which she describes as typically calmer than her larger, pink, ornery charge.

Martinez has lived for a year at Mountain States Children’s Home, which is home to 14 teenagers who cannot live with their families for a variety of reasons. Before moving to the home outside of Longmont, she had lived only in Denver and had no experience raising animals.

While initially put off by the pigs, she opted to work on raising Oinkers and Precious and found she loved the animals. She is excited to show them this year

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Alex Martinez, 13, brushes Oinkers on June 24 at the Mountain States Children's Home while preparing for her first 4-H competition at the Boulder County Fair.

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Continued from 5 the Boulder County Fair in her first 4-H competition.

“I would like to win first place in showmanship,” she said, acknowledging that her sights are set pretty high.

Long term, the teen wants to become a child-protection officer. She has nine brothers and six sisters and cared for some of her siblings after her mother died. She moved to Mountain States after living with her grandmother.

Until moving to the children’s home, her view of the mountains was obstructed by the city and she could rarely see the stars in the nighttime sky because of the city’s lights. She said she has grappled with behavioral problems, which are hard to imagine given her bright disposition and easy smile.

At the Boulder County Fair, Martinez will compete with other kids who grew up on farms and competed in 4-H competitions as long as they can remember.

“It’s real competitive, real competitive,” said Roy Rush, farm manager at Mountain States Children’s Home.

She will compete in showmanship, market hogs and breeding. Rush said he has high hopes for Martinez and two

Alex Martinez, originally of Denver, describes herself as a “city kid,” but has come to love living and working in the country.

other Mountain States competitors in the pig competition this year. She knows that the pigs may be bought for slaughter and is steeling herself for the possibility.

It might also be bought and donated back to the children’s home.

“I want these kids to win. I want them to accomplish something,” Rush said.

He added that Martinez has come a long way from refusing to touch a pig

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“She’ll get it done,” he said, glancing over at Martinez, wearing her Dickie overalls and standing casually next to Oinkers, who was just as casually defecating in the pen.

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Mayhem to delight demolition derby fans Story by George Plaven GREELEY — Spare tools and car parts littered Jacob Gomez’s garage floor. In the middle of it all laid the removed subframe for his 1974 Dodge Monaco.

Gomez, a member of the Colorado Demolition Derby Racing Association and nicknamed the “Hispanic Causing Panic,” dropped to one knee and lowered his welding mask. A shower of sparks fell onto his pant leg as he reinforced the frame’s metal seams.

The Monaco ran in one demolition derby in May, the Wyoming State Border Wars in Cheyenne. Its next test is coming up Saturday, Aug. 1, at the Boulder County Fair, and Gomez must repair the battered car quickly to have it

ready in time.

“When you’re a derby guy, you’re a welder, a fabricator, a mechanic, an electrician ... you learn all kinds of things, because nobody is going to do it for you,” he said.

This year’s derby in Longmont begins at 6:30 p.m.

General admission is $15, while kids and seniors get in for $5.

Derby superintendent Marlin Godfrey said people come out to demolition derbies because they want to see something out of the everyday norm.

“People like mayhem,” Godfrey said. “What brings people out to watch a tornado or fire? It’s the same effect here.”

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Tow truck drivers work to clear the wreckage after a demolition derby heat at the 2007 Boulder County Fair. (Times-Call file photo)

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All glass must be removed from a derby car, along with everything flammable.

Drivers are allowed only one 6-gallon tank of gas.

There is only one seat inside the car, as passengers are not allowed to ride along in derby. Sitting behind the wheel, Gomez pointed out the messages his 10year-old daughter, Merceydes, scribbled in marker across on the bare metal rods.

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“It’s a family affair,” Gomez said. “You have to be able to manage your time with your vehicle and your family.”

Before each race, Gomez, said he prays to God to keep him safe and let him

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Gomez said he received as much as $5,000 in 2006 from derby winnings.

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“People in the top 10 are not chumps,” he said. “You increase your chances of hanging up there if you put in the labor.”

Above all, Gomez said he hopes the audience sees a good show.

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“By my estimation, it takes three energetic people eight hours each to get a car ready,” he said. “They strip down everything except for the metal frame and body, and everything else that’s necessary to make it drive.”

Of course, there are cash prizes for the winners as well.

Outside the garage, Gomez’s burnt-orange Monaco rested on a bed of gravel next to the driveway. It sported plenty of battle scars, dents and swapped paint.

Despite being largely crunched and shredded, it was easy to see the white number 30 painted prominently on each side of the car. Gomez said this helps him remember the April 30 birthday of his wife, Amy. To get inside the car, Gomez must climb on the edge of the exposed hood and duck in where the windshield used to be. Both doors have already been reinforced with steel panels and bars as a

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Steven Muhein, 13, of Longmont carefully washes behind the ears of his pet goose in preparation for showing at the 1982 Boulder County Fair.

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Ranch sorters use animal psychology in competition Story by Pam Mellskog LONGMONT — No university offers a course in cow psychology.

But successful riders at the Boulder County Fair’s ranch sorting event understand herd behavior, according to Tammy Daniels and her daughter, Tessa Trevithick.

The Longmont mother and daughter often compete at the same events and explained that practice helps them “read” cattle — that is, it helps them better predict cattle moves to herd the numbered animals from one pen to another in order.

For instance, the duo knows cattle like to be with their buddies, that they resist direction if chased and respond better to a horse at their heads versus their hind ends.

In this event, two riders take turns moving as many of the 10 numbered cattle as possible in chronological order from one pen into another pen in 60 seconds.

The other rider, meanwhile, guards the gateless opening between the pens to make sure that cattle do not enter the second pen before they are supposed to and that cattle collected there do not escape back into the original pen.

Participants and fans call cows trying to get through the collection pen gate “trash cows,” Trevithick, 14, said.

“People on the sidelines will sometimes help you out. They’ll yell, ‘Trash!

You’ve got trash!’ or ‘Comin’ back!’ if the sorted ones try to come back out,” she explained.

The so-called blank cow — an unnumbered 11th cow in the herd — adds yet another challenge, Daniels, 47, said.

“He’s not going to want to be all alone away from his buddies with these horses chasing around,” she said.

So, the blank gets underfoot, so to speak, during the sorting process.

City folks unfamiliar with the wily dynamics of sorting cattle might appreciate

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it better by picturing a pool table break.

Once the rider enters the herd to sort the first cow from the 11 bunched up, they scatter and run helter-skelter.

And like a savvy pool player, the rider sorting needs to know just how to tilt the horse toward the cow to angle the cow through the corral opening.

The event ranks the ability of riders and their mounts on a nine-point scale with one indicating beginner status and nine indicating professional status, said Dave Wolfe, president of Wellingtonbased Colorado branch of Ranch Sorting National Championships.

The sport’s appeal covers a range, too, he said.

“We’ll have 6- and 7-year-old kids to grandparents in it at the fair,” Wolfe added.

He expects 200 teams to enter the Boulder County Fair event, which has an estimated $2,000 pot.

Trevithick, her mother, and her stepfather, Butch Daniels, 51, all plan to compete as beginners.

Trevithick might have an edge on her elders, but not because she belongs to the Boulder County Judging Team and the Rinn Valley Livestock 4-H Club.

It is because every time she rides Licorice, her black, 17-year-old quarter horse, she needs to use animal psychology to catch the mare.

The teenager shoves the halter under her shirt so the horse won’t notice it.

Then, with a laugh she saunters into the pasture.

“OK. This is going to look weird,” Trevithick said. “But it works.”

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The Colorado Old Time Fiddlers Association sanctions contests, including the Fiddle Championships at the National Western Stock Show in Denver. Judges at its events focus on difficulty, musical expression, tone, intonation and rhythm.

“Intonation and rhythm are the main things,” said Denice Carter, the association’s president.

Those qualities will be on exhibit during a COTFA contest Aug. 1 at the 2009 Boulder County Fair. It’s a new event for the fair, which started in 1869.

“We thought it really tied in with our 140th celebration,” said Linda Henry, coordinator of the fair. “It’s just an old tra-

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Meghan Rickel, queen, left, and Katie Richardson, lady-in-waiting. (Courtesy Marilyn Stevens Photography )

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Continued from 12 “You want your hair to be as big as the brim of your hat,” Rickel explained while weaving her hands through her hair and puffing out the blonde locks. “When you’re thinking queen hair, you want to be like Dolly Parton.”

But hair aside, queens need to exude confidence, Rickel said. You have to be able to walk into an arena of rodeo fans and connect with every person in the stands, she said.

The primary responsibility of the queen and her lady-inwaiting, Katie Richardson, is to promote the Boulder County Fair.

But for Rickel, it’s also a position of pride.

“When you come out to a rodeo, you come back to the Western way of life,” she said.

Rickel, who grew up in urban Boulder, enrolled in horseback riding lessons when she was 9 years old.

But her fascination with rodeo queens goes back even further.

“I saw the queen at the Boulder County Fair when I was 5 or 6 years old,” Rickel said. “I just remember a whole bunch of glitter and hairspray and those beautiful horses.”

Now a sophomore at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, Rickel is majoring in agricultural business and marketing and hopes to find a public relations job at an agricultural company after graduating.

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“We want to preserve our Western heritage, and that’s a dying breed,” said Richardson, 17. “This isn’t our hobby, it’s our livelihood.”

Richardson’s connection with horses started at 2 months old when her father introduced her to the horses on the family’s Erie ranch.

And although she hasn’t finalized any plans yet, Richardson said she wants to study agricultural business and find work in a field where she can have constant contact with her favorite animals.

“I seriously could not live a day without horses,” she said.

Rickel and Richardson have worked together since last fall. The duo has traveled to events across the state to promote the fair. They also organized a royalty fashion show and visited The Children’s Hospital in Aurora.

At the fair, Rickel and Richardson will compete in several horse shows and host clinics for young riders.

And although the stress of queendom can get to her sometimes, Rickel said she loves the gig. Not to mention the glitz and glamour that can only be associated with rodeo royalty.

“I really don’t mind getting four hours of sleep to be able to do this,” Rickel said. “My hair doesn’t like it, but that’s a different story.”

“When you’re thinking queen hair, you want to be like Dolly Parton.”

Meghan Rickel, this year’s Boulder County Fair queen

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Coy Jeff, left, and Brandon Weed put their bronco riding gloves on at the 1992 Boulder County Fair.

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Cooks named 2009 Family of the Year Story by Tony Kindelspire LONGMONT — Mike Cook said his family members were surprised when they got a call informing them they were the 2009 Boulder County Fair Family of the Year.

But perhaps they shouldn’t have been, given how active they are in 4-H and the fair.

Mike Cook’s wife, Marilyn, was in 4-H growing up in Arvada, and so was Mike, who grew up in the Black Forest area of El Paso County.

The two have stayed active in the organization all these years and have instilled their love of 4-H in their daughters, Molly and Katherine, both of whom have been part of 4-H Mike and Marilyn Cook, along with daughters Molly and Kate are the Boulder County Fair's Family of for 11 years. the Year. The couple has lived in Berthoud for 21 years. Molly Cook, 19, will be a sophomore at the “Most of the activities that University of Wyoming this fall, and Kate, 16, will be a junior at Berthoud High School. (Joshua

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Continued from 16 we do involve the kids,” Mike Cook said. “4-H is something we do with the kids.”

Mike Cook is a district engineer with the Little Thompson Water District by trade, and Marilyn Cook takes care of the household full time, although she, too, is an engineer and has a master’s in finance.

The couple has lived in Berthoud for 21 years. Molly Cook, 19, will be a sophomore at the University of Wyoming this fall, and Katherine (Kate), 16, will be a junior at Berthoud High School.

Detailing the family’s activities in 4-H would take much more space than is allowed here.

“Free time? What’s that?”

Marilyn Cook quipped.

Mike Cook is president of the Colorado 4-H Foundation. Marilyn Cook is active in the Larimer County Fair and, at the Boulder County Fair, is serving as the 4-H heritage arts superintendent. Both daughters have won numerous championships at the state fair level in archery and shooting, and both are active on the county dance team.

This year, Mike Cook is serving as the Boulder County Fair’s 4-H foods superintendent, meaning he’s in charge of organizing all the food entries.

Something he introduced this year is a 4-H product sale,

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during which members of the public — just as they can with prize-winning livestock — can bid on the winning loaf of bread, the top decorated cake and the best plate of cookies, among other food items.

“Every year at the county fair there’s a market livestock sale,” Mike Cook said. “I thought, ‘You know, we need to set up an opportunity for those kids to participate in a scholarship activity like that.’ ” “A lot of people don’t realize that 4-H is about more than livestock,” Marilyn Cook added.

The 4-H product sale will begin at 11 a.m. Saturday, Aug. 8.

Kate said her favorite things about the county fair are the horses and pigs, while Molly Cook said she likes the shooting sports and the pigs best.

“Or swine, as they call it,” Molly Cook said.

The Cooks are the 63rd Boulder County Fair Family of the Year. They know they’ll be riding on a special float during the parade but aren’t sure what else will be required of them.

But it doesn’t matter, Mike Cook said; whatever it is, they’ll be happy to help out.

They’ll be at the fair just about all day, every day anyway.

“Boulder County 4-H, it’s like family,” Mike Cook said.

“Most of the activities that we do involve the kids. 4-H is something we do with the kids.”

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Above, this photograph of a Boulder County Fair exhibit at Roosevelt Park dates to sometime between 1920 and 1940, according to Longmont Museum records. (Courtesy Longmont Museum) Left, Joshua Docheff poses with his calf, Black Beauty, in the bucket calf contest at the 1990 fair. (Times-Call file photo) Below, this photograph from the Longmont Museum archives shows the Weld County float in the 1953 fair parade. (Courtesy Longmont Museum)

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Left, Jamie McCarty, 8, holds her rabbit that she entered in the 1991 fair. Above, Sara Montgomery is pictured with her rabbits at the 1988 fair. (Times-Call file photos)

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Saturday, July 18 8 a.m. 4-H Muzzle Loading and Shotgun Show – Berthoud Gun Club 4 p.m. 4-H Shotgun Show – Berthoud Gun Club

KEY • EB – Exhibit Building • IA – Indoor Arena • OA – Outdoor Arena • NRB – Natural Resource Building

Left, Rebecca Hampton of Longmont prepares her rocket for launch as judge Ken Plattner observes during the 4-H Rocket Shootoff at the 2008 Boulder County Fair. Below, Judge Ken Plattner observes model rocket builder Evan LeBlanc of Nederland prepare for launch during the 4-H Rocket Shootoff.

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Sunday, July 19 9 a.m. 4-H 22-Gauge Show – Berthoud Gun Club Wednesday, July 29 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4-H/FFA Horse Show – IA Thursday, July 30 8 a.m. 4-H Rocket Shootoff – North Parking Lot 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4-H/FFA Horse Show – IA and Practice Arena, OA 9 a.m. Open Class Creative Living, Arts and Projects Show – EB 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. 4-H General Projects Check-In and Interview Judging – EB 9 a.m. Open Class Quilts and Wall Hangings Show – NRB Friday, July 31 – Boulder County Fair 140th Anniversary Celebration 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4-H/FFA Horse Show – IA and Practice Arena 9 to 11 a.m. Ranch Sorting National Championships Horse Sport Ranch Sort Clinic and Practice – OA 9 a.m. to Noon Open Class Handloom Weaving and Handspun Yarn Check-In – EB Continued on next page

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Continued from 20 Noon to 9 p.m. Decades of Dirt and Dreams – Farm Equipment Show – South Midway 1 p.m. Open Class Handloom Weaving and Handspun Yarn Show – EB 1 to 8 p.m. RSNC Horse Sport Ranch Sort Competition – OA 4 p.m. Carnival Open – Midway 4 to 9 p.m. Exhibit Building open 4 to 11 p.m. Fair Garden Open 5 p.m. Ice Cream Social and Freeze-A-Thon Competition – Fair Garden 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Band: Code 4 – Fair Garden Stage 6 to 8 p.m. RSNC Horse Sport Ranch Sort Competition – OA 8 to 11 p.m. Band: Kelly J – Fair Garden Stage Saturday, Aug. 1 6:30 to 10 a.m. Chuckwagon Breakfast – Downtown

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Longmont 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Colorado Dairy Goat Association Dairy Goat Showmanship and Senior Doe Show – Barn A 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. 4H/FFA Horse Show Champion of Champions – IA 9 a.m. Open Sheep Show – Barn B 10 a.m. to Noon Parade – Downtown Longmont 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handloom Weaving Demonstration – EB 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handspun Yarn Spinning Demonstration – EB 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibit Building Open 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Decades of Dirt and Dreams – Farm Equipment Show – South Midway 11 a.m. Open Natural Colored Sheep Show – Barn B Noon Carnival Open – Midway Noon to 5 p.m. Colorado Old Time Fiddler Association

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Continued from 21 Contest – Fair Garden Stage Noon to 6 p.m. Horsepower Roundup Car Show – Southwest Fairgrounds Park Noon to 9 p.m. Corvette Classics Show – North Fair Garden 1 p.m. Open and Junior Class Crops and Novelties Show – EB 1 to 2 p.m. Open Special Dairy Goat Costume Show – Barn A 1 to 11 p.m. Fair Garden Open 1:30 p.m. 4-H Fashion Revue – EB Stage 2 to 5 p.m. CDGA Dairy Goat Showmanship Junior Doe Show – Barn A 2 to 9 p.m. Colorado State University Ag Adventure – EB 6 to 8 p.m. Band: Mojomammas – Fair Garden Stage 6:30 p.m. Demolition Derby – OA 9 to 11 p.m. Band: Rightfully Accused – Fair Garden Stage

10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Decades of Dirt and Dreams – Farm Equipment Show – South Midway 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibit Building Open Noon Carnival Open – Midway Noon to 6 p.m. Corvette Show – North Fair Garden Noon to 6 p.m. Family Fiesta Day Activities – Fair Garden Stage 12 p.m. Garden Tractor Sled Pull – Public Practice Arena 2 to 7 p.m. CSU Ag Adventure – EB 2 to 10 p.m. Fair Garden Open 3 to 7 p.m. Chili Cookoff – West Fair Garden 6 p.m. Flat Track Racing – OA 6 to 9 p.m. Band: Glass Ceiling – Fair Garden Stage

Monday, Aug. 3 – Senior Day 8 a.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Dairy Goat Showmanship – Barn A 9 a.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Dairy Goat Show – Barn A Sunday, Aug. 2 – Fiesta Day 9 a.m. 4-H/FFA Junior 8 a.m. Open Class Dairy Poultry Show – Barn A Goat Show – Barn A 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Senior 10 to 11 a.m. Cowboy Day Activities – EB Christian Fellowship – Fair 10 a.m. to Noon Kids AcGarden Stage tivities – the Bounce – EB 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Handloom Weaving Demonstration Kids Corral 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. 4-H/FFA – EB Junior Dog Obedience Trials – 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. HandIA spun Yarn Spinning DemonContinued on next page stration – EB

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Continued from 22 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Decades of Dirt and Dreams – Farm Equipment Show – South Midway 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibit Building Open 1 to 2 p.m. Kids Story Time – EB Kids Corral 2 to 7 p.m. CSU Ag Adventure – EB 4 p.m. Carnival Open – Midway Tuesday, Aug. 4 10 a.m. Llama Show – IA 10 a.m. to Noon Kids Activities – Stirrup the Fun – EB Kids Corral 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Decades of Dirt and Dreams – Farm Equipment Show – South Midway 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Exhibit Building Open Noon to 6 p.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Poultry Sale 1 to 2 p.m. Kids Story Time – EB Stage 1 to 3 p.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Dairy Show – IA Continued on next page

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Continued from 23 2 to 7 p.m. CSU Ag Adventure – EB 4 p.m. Carnival Open – Midway 4 to 10 p.m. Fair Garden Open 5 p.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Swine Showmanship – Barn B 6 to 7 p.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Poultry Awards – Barn A 7 p.m. Ballet On Horseback – IA 7 p.m. 4-H/FFA Junior Poultry Sale – Barn A 7 to 10 p.m. Karaoke Contest and Line Dancing – Fair Garden Stage

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