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Arnold Moore and Nicamp Funeral Home and Tall Grass Motors. Ladies from the Washington
County Free Fair. Welcome aboard. Not a stranger. We have Hannah and
Rebecca. How you doing, ladies? Well good, I'm glad you didn't
say fair, because this is really Hannah. We got a new name for
this, don't we. Yes. Um, this year we are celebrating one
hundred and nine years of Red, White and you is our theme at the
fair. Well, Rebecca, I understand you kind of came up with that.
Now we got all kinds of things going on here Free Four to the
dates. The dates are. The indoor entries are going to be due um
September fifth, so that's when you bring all your items that you want to
enter inside. The livestock will be entered on the sixth, September six that's
a Wednesday, and then the fair is going to be open to the public
September seventh through the night. So that's Thursday through Saturday. Oh wow,
this is great, this is great. I understand that Saturday only we've got
like a vendor show. What's that all about we do. That's kind of
a new thing. Typically, in the past, we would allow vendors to
set up in the South Room for the whole duration of the fair. This
year we changed it up a little bit. We will still have some of
those nonprofit organizations in the South Room for the whole duration of the fair,
but on Saturday only, we're going to do like a craft and vendor fair
and it's going to be in the North Room. There's only about fifteen slots
available. I think we've got thirteen confirmed, So the slots are limited.
So if you are a local vendor or business and you want to come display
your items on a Saturday only at the fair, get with us and we
would love to have you. But there's only a couple of slots left now.
Anna, We've got a lot of things going on now. One thing
that's really pretty cool about the free Bear that you're never gonna go hungry.
Yeah, because if you got a little bit of money, we've got something
for you here. Now We've got we've got the lunches and dinners every day
that that we're open, don't we yes? Um? So Thursday, Um,
the Copanaggies are going to do their meals for lunch and supper, they're
gonna serve chicken fried steak and all the fixins that day yay um. And
then Friday, the Washington County for each Parent Volunteers Association, they're going to
do their meals. UM. Lunch is chicken noodles and then supper is gonna
be meat loaf with all the fixins. Saturday is UM for lunch. The
Bartlesville Indian Women are going to come back and do their um Indian tacos and
Indian tacos. Yes, we're really excited for that one. And then um
new this year in the evening for supper on Saturday, the Fair Board is
going to do a fundraiser barbecue meal. So we're really excited about that too.
Well, slap on a bivin let's get going. Yes, guys,
you got it all at the pair of this year. Yes, Now we
we're gonna do something with We're gonna do a tractor public. It's a little
different this year. Yes, it's a little bit about it. This is
really fun. A little micro scaled tractor pool. It's called a pedal pool,
and it's for our youngest community members if they're small enough enough to like
ride a pedal car. Then they're gonna they could come and participate in that.
And that is I believe, going to be on Friday from Florida stairs
all right there, So come up after work and get yourself a little bit
of a meal or watch the kids first and then get a meal. Yeah,
yeah, it'd be a lot of fun. Yeah. New this year
too on Wednesday night, so right before um we're fully open to the public.
The next day, we're going to do a fair kickoff party. Oh
these good. Last year was excellent. Yeah, we're gonna do a movie
on the lawn this year. We've got a popcorn vendor, a lemonade vendor,
so lots of good snacks and a good family movie. We haven't decided
what movie yet, but Charlotte's Webb is up there. Yes, charlotte Webb
is one. Yeah. Wow, that one's up there. So we haven't
decided which one yet, but we're really components, that's for sure. Yeah.
It will be displayed on the outs on the lawn on the outside of
the building, So bring bring your lawn chair or a blanket to sit on
and enjoy the movie. We're gonna have the hot dog eating contest again.
Yes, we're gonna do that on Friday. There will be a timer this
time, though. I kind of ran out of battery on my camera because
it became a showdown towards the end there, and I'm glad, kind of
glad at one point that the battery did die. But my goodness, actually
had some great competitors there, and it came down to this fellow who looks
like a bench press's track, probably with fetty nuts, with his very teeny
tiny, little fair princess, and I'm taking boy, you want one of
the odds of this being the last two standing. And it was really it
was a lot of a lot of people loved it. She almost had almost
It was just inches from a clean getaway. Yeah, from what I understand,
she's had a whole year of not eating any hot dogs, so yeah,
she's revenge. She'll wear a crown this year, going I got my
eyes on you, mister hot dog eater. Oh wow, this is really
good. So you know, last year we we started off with the theme.
This year we got another theme, and this looks like it's gonna build
from here on out. Now with the book that comes out to you're telling
me that there's going to be a section that changes every year. Yes.
So if if you've ever noticed, the fair books are broken down by department,
so that each each department there for each has a department. In fa
has a department, in needlework has a department, so that's photography and so
on and so forth. So there's going to be a new department department eleven
and each year it will change depending on the theme of the fair. So
since this year's fair theme has red white and you our department classes. Our
classes in that department are like a patriotic Point for youth and adult patriotic barn
quilt. There's open textile and open patriotic photography. So those classes are are
going to stay each year, but they will change depending on the theme of
the fair. That this is really so cool. I mean it used to
be the Free Fairer with the Free Fairer with the Free Fairer, and not
a whole lot changed from year to year. But now I mean we get
a new look every year. Hannah, Yep, we're excited about that.
I can tell you. Guys came in beaming like god set. We're excited
to get to share those this morning. We're going to take a quick break
and then we're going to come back and talk a little bit more about the
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our friends from the Freefair, Rebecca and Hannah. Hannah understand we've got bugs
coming to the Freefair. Yes we do, returning. It should say yes
bugs returning. So Oklahoma State University, within their entomology department, they have
a little youth enrichment school enrichment program called the Insect Adventure. So they have
a ton of different insects, buds, arthur pods, any kind of creepy
crawley that you could think of. They probably have one and they bring all
of those to the fair, they display them, they do a lot of
educational components to it, teaching the kids about the different kinds of bugs and
what might be unique to that bug. So we're gonna have that on Thursday
from nine to three in the South Room. They're going to come back great.
That's a lot of fun and we've got all kinds of exhibits and once
again for the folks who have not gone to the Washington County Free Fair,
the admission is yep, free nine nine. This is great. So what
are the dates again, Rebecca? Okay, So our indoor entries are due
on September to fifth, that's a Tuesday. The sixth is when the livestock
entries will be due. That's on a Wednesday. And then the public is
welcome to come Wednesday evening for our kickoff and that starts at seven, and
then the fair exhibits will be open for their public viewing on the seventh,
eighth, and ninth. That's open to everyone, and we encourage everyone to
come. There's there's something for everyone to see an experience, and all the
activities that are going to be there are free. Now, well, you
know something we're talking about it being the one hundred ninth anniversary and everything.
One thing that is almost synonymous with the Free Fair is that the we have
the Washington County cattle women doing their thing. That's yes, yes, that
is always a highlight of the Free Fair is when our cattle women come and
bring their amazing pies and baskets that they work so hard putting together, and
that is one of their It might be their biggest fundraiser of the year.
But that's going to be Thursday evening and that starts at six. So when
the copan Aggies are serving up their chicken fried steak, the cattle women will
be auctioning off their pies and baskets wonderful dessert huh yeah. Bus there's a
lot of goodies that come along with the good he called the pie. Yeah,
not just pie alone. So my goodness thinks this is gonna be a
lot of fun. I'm really really stoked for this year. Yeah, this
is gonna be gonna do. It's gonna be out there at the fair grounds
in Dewey, and they just did a little bit of work out there on
some of the buildings and everything is where it needs to be. Air conditioning
comfort if you're going into the exhibit halls. And of course you know you're
going to take a break from the heat when you get into the barns too,
because they've got a lot of fans going on there. They do do
they do? By the way, when you're exhibiting your animals, you have
to be a part of a club or an organization. And does it cost
what's the what's the rundown here? So it is free to enter all of
the livestock. We have junior and open divisions. So in that open division
you can be of any age. You just have to live in Washington County.
You don't have to be a part of an organization or anything. On
the junior side of that is for four h and FA members school age ages
eight to eighteen is our junior show. And you know what, these kids
are always well represented too, yes, and you know this is the big
show for them. This is Madison Square Garden for a lot of these they
come up. They come in just looking smith and their animals are just spotless
and well groomed and everything. And you want to talk about a show,
it's a show. It's a it's a it's a big, big matter of
Pride. It's a big deal, yea, So I want everybody to come
out to the big deal. We call the Washington County