This year brings new fair events
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A new open youth market goat show initiated by 16-year-old Jamison Crouch will be part of this year’s events and begins Friday, Sept. 5 at 5 p.m. Friday events are a change for a fair that traditionally opens on Saturday.
Additionally, a “chain saw challenge,” essentially a log-cutting contest containing eight different classes, will be added this year, according to fair treasurer Carol Grandey.
Saturday night’s lineup of music won’t include gospel this year. Gospel will still be offered on Sunday, Sept. 7, Grandey said, but three bluegrass groups will take the stage at the grandstand at 7 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 6.
“The crowds had fallen and the fair board felt like it should just be one night of gospel,” she said of the music change, “and bluegrass is on the up and up.”
Those bands, which are not listed in the fair book currently available at local banks, are Hub City Bluegrass, Merdith Goines Bluegrass Express and Valley Grass Express. Another Saturday event is the antique tractor pull, which begins at 6 p.m.
A Web site for the fair has been set up at www.warrencountyalfair.com and is designed to offer entry forms for participants.
An e-mail account has been set up for the fair as well, and that address is [email protected], with Grandey hoping the public would utilize the Web site.