Speaker 1: Good morning, good morning, good morning. Welcome, welcome, welcome. It's
Speaker 1: time now for our community connection right here on K one,
Speaker 1: the one you trust, and we have got the boy this.
Speaker 1: I can't believe it's here already, first day of school
Speaker 1: and now we're talking the Freefair, Washington County Freefair, and
Speaker 1: we have in here with this mister Vice president Kevin White,
Speaker 1: and also chair women Rebecca Moses. How are we doing, kids,
Speaker 1: We're doing great. This is gonna be awesome. This fair
Speaker 1: just keeps popping with new things and new ideas each
Speaker 1: and every year. And I like the way that you
Speaker 1: find new directions in order to engage to the youth
Speaker 1: and also their parents too. What's this barn and banter
Speaker 1: I'm hearing about these days?
Speaker 2: It is brand new. It's it's called Barn Banter, and
Speaker 2: it's a chance for young ones adults whoever, to come
Speaker 2: and share share their knowledge or their demonstration or anything
Speaker 2: that they have interest in with fair goers. So there's
Speaker 2: time slots available to sign up. Whether you want to
Speaker 2: show us how to weave a basket or tell us
Speaker 2: how to milk a cow, or the possibilities are endless.
Speaker 2: So you can find that sign up on our Facebook page.
Speaker 1: I'm going to tell you kids to creative. I raised
Speaker 1: seven of them, and you will be surprised by some
Speaker 1: of the things you get. So moms and dads and
Speaker 1: everybody show up. Yes, you were about to learn them.
Speaker 3: You're about to moms or dads if you have some knowledge. Yeah,
Speaker 3: you got twenty minutes too.
Speaker 1: You can do it to your piece. Yes, wow, Oh
Speaker 1: well what kind of things we got going on there?
Speaker 1: keV Why do we not have going on? That's the
Speaker 1: short list.
Speaker 3: That's the short list. If you want to eat a
Speaker 3: moon pie, you know.
Speaker 1: Eat some good food.
Speaker 3: Listen to someone talk about brush tail possums for twenty minutes.
Speaker 3: We got you covered. Well you're right now. Now we
Speaker 3: do cover the game. You can eat some ice cream,
Speaker 3: you can.
Speaker 2: There's two optnuts to eat ice cream. This year, Friday
Speaker 2: night is going to be our free root beer float
Speaker 2: event with Farm Bureau. They're having a meet and greet,
Speaker 2: so it's free rootbeer floats. And then Saturday night during
Speaker 2: the concert, the free concert, we're gonna have an ice
Speaker 2: cream Sunday bar. So it's gonna be a good time.
Speaker 1: Well, you're talking about my favorite food groups here right then?
Speaker 1: You know we've got to cover and throwing the moon
Speaker 1: by and I'm a good guy over the moon. It
Speaker 1: can be a very carb friendly fair well, Kevin, isn't
Speaker 1: it carb neutral when you walk around and off? You
Speaker 1: got what I thought? Yeah? Yeah, so but this is
Speaker 1: going to be great now the moonpie eating contest. What
Speaker 1: night is that?
Speaker 3: That is Friday night at five.
Speaker 1: O'clock, five o'clock.
Speaker 2: It's first fifteen people to show up five dollars to enter.
Speaker 2: Winter takes allow.
Speaker 1: I can't remember.
Speaker 2: It's it's assorted flavors or do we have I think
Speaker 2: we have vanilla and chocolate.
Speaker 1: Oh, well you there you go.
Speaker 2: Yeah, And so it is the first person to eat
Speaker 2: twenty moon pies are the most moon pies eaten in
Speaker 2: fifteen minutes. So we're putting a time limit.
Speaker 1: That's really good because the time that we didn't do.
Speaker 2: That, yeah, we were there for a while, was.
Speaker 1: A little longer than I had put them on my camera.
Speaker 1: But this is going to be a lot of fun now.
Speaker 1: The little guys and galls, I hear we've got a
Speaker 1: little tracker pull for them.
Speaker 2: We do, we do, but they have very pedal companies
Speaker 2: coming again this year. They always do an amazing job
Speaker 2: getting those kids excited and getting them on a tractor
Speaker 2: that fits their size. And when we say tractor, it's
Speaker 2: it's not actually an engine driven tractor. They drive it themselves.
Speaker 2: It's a pedal tractor. So they get to give it,
Speaker 2: give it there all and see how far they can
Speaker 2: pull those weights. And let me tell you, there's a
Speaker 2: they get after it.
Speaker 3: And that's on Friday night at seven o'clock.
Speaker 1: Okay, so right after you have your moon high. Yes,
Speaker 1: and the spectators have the regular food fair that you
Speaker 1: can get out there. Yes, and there's a variety of
Speaker 1: that she's from. Yes, and that's during the Classic Car
Speaker 1: Show too.
Speaker 3: Wow.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there's a lot happening.
Speaker 1: My goodness. Thanks. Now speaking about things happening, what's this
Speaker 1: new artist i'm hearing is going to be provoked doing
Speaker 1: the concert?
Speaker 2: Oh, Boston James.
Speaker 1: Yes, Boston Boston James.
Speaker 2: He's from Ulaga, so he's not not too far away
Speaker 2: from here. He's been super active and going all over
Speaker 2: the state playing. He played at the Oklahoma State FFA
Speaker 2: convention this past year for all those twenty thousand kids
Speaker 2: that were there. So he's he's really good and we're
Speaker 2: looking forward to happening and our actual actually our Washington
Speaker 2: County FFA chapters are sponsoring and hosting that event. So
Speaker 2: since he's an f FA alumni, our f FA chapters
Speaker 2: are stepping up and saying welcome to our county and
Speaker 2: it's it's going to be free for everyone where we'll
Speaker 2: have some bleachers to sit, of space, you place to dance.
Speaker 2: Our food and drink vendors are planning on hanging around,
Speaker 2: so there's going to be food and drinks and a
Speaker 2: good time.
Speaker 3: And that'll be Saturday from six to nine.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Wow, this is going to be a good time.
Speaker 1: It really is. Now you've got other days going on
Speaker 1: and during the daytime, you guys get a lot of
Speaker 1: foot trafficking doors, don't you.
Speaker 2: We do, we do, we our indoor entries. We we've
Speaker 2: already got a lot of feedback. I think it's it
Speaker 2: was full last year and now we're having to think
Speaker 2: about how we're going to rearrange it to get it
Speaker 2: all in there again.
Speaker 1: The problem to have.
Speaker 2: It is the more the merrier, Well we'll get it
Speaker 2: figured out. But there is a lot to see and
Speaker 2: there's so many options for people to ender items in
Speaker 2: the fair, and if you haven't found a fair book yet.
Speaker 2: You can go to County Courthouse dot org to find
Speaker 2: it or pick one up at the Extension office. I
Speaker 2: think Jensen Tractor has a few still. I know that
Speaker 2: Simple Simons and the American Bank and Ramona have some
Speaker 2: in the donut shop so and then Copenn truck stop
Speaker 2: has some. So they're scattered around, but you can. You
Speaker 2: can surely find one at the Extension office always, so
Speaker 2: if you want one in your hand, go by there
Speaker 2: and pick one up.
Speaker 1: Well, it's always good to have that with you, especially
Speaker 1: if you're walking around, you know, and you go, oh, well,
Speaker 1: handy to have with you all.
Speaker 3: And the Facebook page, the events are all listed. Yes
Speaker 3: you know you can the pedal pool, the concert.
Speaker 2: That's it. That's Washington County Free Fair is our Facebook page.
Speaker 1: But well, very good. It's easy to remember too. And
Speaker 1: then you'll have all the highlights on there each day. Yes, yes, yes,
Speaker 1: you already got a lot of them up there already.
Speaker 2: Yes, there they're there, so go go peruse and find
Speaker 2: find what suits your fancy.
Speaker 1: Now when it comes to livestock, we'll forget about that.
Speaker 1: We still do that. That's pretty much the whole basis
Speaker 1: of it all. Yeah, we got we got a whole
Speaker 1: lot going on doing.
Speaker 3: Yes, we do the first show well, Thursday night we
Speaker 3: have the open pit and dog show.
Speaker 1: At six o'clock.
Speaker 3: Friday, if we have a dairy goat and dairy cow,
Speaker 3: that'll be Friday. Saturday will be the swine, sheep, goat
Speaker 3: and cattle shows starting at nine o'clock, and then the
Speaker 3: horse show.
Speaker 2: It's Saturday, Saturday night also Saturday. Actually entries are at
Speaker 2: one o'clock. Then the horse show will start at two
Speaker 2: o'clock Saturday afternoon, so we're super excited. We have a
Speaker 2: new superintendent for that show. She's an experienced horse person
Speaker 2: and she actually added a class to the horse show
Speaker 2: this year. It's the trail class, so I'm excited to see.
Speaker 2: I've never seen one before, so there's gonna be some
Speaker 2: obstacles and those those people have to get around and
Speaker 2: get around all of them on their horses, so that
Speaker 2: that'll be new and fun, very good.
Speaker 3: And then the children's barnyard. There will always be little
Speaker 3: critters there to take a look at, so if you
Speaker 3: don't see an animal, there will be an animals for
Speaker 3: you to see.
Speaker 2: And then the poultry and the rabbit show is Friday morning,
Speaker 2: so there's really every every shape and size and feathered
Speaker 2: and furred and everything to see.
Speaker 1: Chicken. The rabbits kind of took off a little bit
Speaker 1: over the last couple of years. I mean, I would
Speaker 1: have never dreamed that rabbits would be a livestock pair
Speaker 1: judging type of thing. And then what three years ago, Oh, yes,
Speaker 1: they disturbed multiply it. I don't know how that happened.
Speaker 3: They did well like rabbits.
Speaker 1: Yeah they are.
Speaker 2: So it's a it's a good project, especially for you know,
Speaker 2: beginners or not even beginners. You know, there's there's a
Speaker 2: lot of really experienced people in that world. But it's
Speaker 2: a it's economic and it doesn't cause it doesn't require
Speaker 2: a lot of space to have that project. So it
Speaker 2: is really a good versatile project for people to get into.
Speaker 1: So wonderful. Now getting back to my favorite part of
Speaker 1: the fair. Food and we have some we have some
Speaker 1: food trucks, but we also have the big meal providers
Speaker 1: we do and it's for purpose. I don't want anybody
Speaker 1: thinking that, you know, you get to go out there
Speaker 1: and camp out in the cafeteria all day, but you
Speaker 1: could for a price, well, you can.
Speaker 2: And this is a great opportunity for local or some
Speaker 2: of our organizations to do as their fundraisers. That's that's
Speaker 2: the main purpose. But they do provide us with really
Speaker 2: great food. And so Thursday it's gonna be our fair Board,
Speaker 2: it's one of our fundraisers. We're going to have roast
Speaker 2: roast sandwiches. So we're gonna cook roast all night and
Speaker 2: then turn it into sandwiches. It's going to be great.
Speaker 3: That's Thursday from eleven to one, okay.
Speaker 2: And then but that night that even the four h
Speaker 2: is going to have the evening meal and that's what
Speaker 2: the cattle Women's Pie and Basket auction, so that that'll
Speaker 2: happen together.
Speaker 1: That's been going on for about a million years, haven't Yes, good.
Speaker 3: Fun, that's a fun night, it is so and the
Speaker 3: auction starts at six okay, good you don't want to
Speaker 3: get two full that you can't raise your hand. And
Speaker 3: because they serve their meal from five to eight, and
Speaker 3: then Friday is barzel f Fa from eleven to one thirty.
Speaker 1: They're the new comers, the kids.
Speaker 3: Yes, and by far not the smallest now.
Speaker 2: No, they're big. They're growing by leaps and bounds ebidente
Speaker 2: over three hundred and fifty a kids.
Speaker 1: And there's a lot of blue coats. That's a lot
Speaker 1: of blue coats and there aint nothing prettier in the
Speaker 1: fall and a little blue coats.
Speaker 2: So and then do yet that they follows them up
Speaker 2: that end Friday?
Speaker 1: Even Oh they've been around a while too. They know
Speaker 1: what they're doing.
Speaker 2: They know what they're doing. So from five to eight,
Speaker 2: do yet if they will be serving their dinner.
Speaker 3: Saturday Saturday morning eleven to three barcel Indian Women Club.
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, they're in taco so that's it, can't miss.
Speaker 3: That's kind of a staple. So come out and get
Speaker 3: your Indian taco.
Speaker 2: Yeah. And then Saturday night, when all the festivities are
Speaker 2: going going on, the Copanaggies will be inside serving their meals.
Speaker 2: So very good that'll be.
Speaker 3: And that's five to eighty.
Speaker 1: So there's really no downtime here. No, this is just
Speaker 1: going to be boom boom boom boom boom. Go go, go,
Speaker 1: go go. But it's going to be so much fun. Now.
Speaker 1: What I really like when I come out here in
Speaker 1: the daytime is that the school children get an opportunity
Speaker 1: for a field trip. How many times. Does that happen
Speaker 1: outside of Oklahoma where kids get to go to the
Speaker 1: fair for a field trip. It never happened. So this
Speaker 1: is kind of for folks to take this for granted
Speaker 1: that it always happens, right, It just happens here.
Speaker 2: It just happens here. Yes, we always enjoy seeing those
Speaker 2: lines of kids at the door ready to come in
Speaker 2: and see everything that the fair has to offer, and
Speaker 2: we do. We in the past few years we have
Speaker 2: anywhere from you know, three hundred to six hundred kids
Speaker 2: come through, and that's a lot of kids, but it's
Speaker 2: it's a good time.
Speaker 1: They're always on their best behavior. You know, they'll get
Speaker 1: that one look from the teacher and it's like going,
Speaker 1: I think my comedy career is over, like now, yes,
Speaker 1: so yeah, the acting that does not happen.
Speaker 3: Yeah, and we'll have Gary Deckord with his rope making machine,
Speaker 3: all porn shelling and so that's always a big one
Speaker 3: for the kids.
Speaker 1: They got to get to the little rope made so.
Speaker 2: They yeah, I can't come to the fair without without
Speaker 2: taking them a rope.
Speaker 1: We got the fishing guys out there too.
Speaker 2: Yes, Yes, the Green Country, the Green Country fly fishers
Speaker 2: are going to be there again this year. I'm telling
Speaker 2: you what their product is, bar none, the most durable.
Speaker 2: And I know it's a safety pin and a mock flight,
Speaker 2: but that thing will survive a washer and a dryer.
Speaker 2: Ask me how I know. I have three kids and
Speaker 2: I can't tell you how many times I've washed and
Speaker 2: dried those little things, not realizing they were still on
Speaker 2: their fair shirts. And they still are. Just look like
Speaker 2: they you know, they held up. They're durable.
Speaker 1: And know something, those peddle's got some stories to tell you, and.
Speaker 3: They'll be back to back with the lace makers. So ah,
Speaker 3: you can trol the fly and tat some lace and once.
Speaker 1: You got a little bit of everything going on, yes,
Speaker 1: kind of cover bases. I think you got them all covered,
Speaker 1: to be quite honest with you. So this once again
Speaker 1: runs September.
Speaker 2: It's open to the public fourth through the sixth, and
Speaker 2: so indoor entries are due on the second, and then
Speaker 2: the all the livestock entries will come in on the third,
Speaker 2: and then we'll get it all organized and ready for
Speaker 2: you to look at and it'll be open to the
Speaker 2: public the.
Speaker 3: Morning from today.
Speaker 1: Three weeks from today is the opening day. How fast
Speaker 1: I have to ask this because I've never been there
Speaker 1: when the doors are closed.
Speaker 2: Because the doors are closed, right, do you need a
Speaker 2: secret passage?
Speaker 1: No, no, no, I'm just trying to figure out how
Speaker 1: and that heck you get that so organized on the indoors,
Speaker 1: not really knowing what's coming through.
Speaker 4: Years years of experience and just kind of being flexible
Speaker 4: and on the fly, being creative, and.
Speaker 2: It really we have a good team.
Speaker 1: Do you really want to behind the scenes.
Speaker 3: I mean, you bring your entry in, it's sorted by class,
Speaker 3: it gets judged, and after it's judge, it's got to
Speaker 3: be displayed. So there's like twelve hours of ballet of
Speaker 3: just boom boom, and it's up wall on which it's
Speaker 3: pretty it's like what happened, which.
Speaker 2: Which reminds me we do have a really good team.
Speaker 2: But we could always use help. We could we could
Speaker 2: use help, And so I encourage you if you have
Speaker 2: any spare time before the fair, because we're always up there,
Speaker 2: you know, trying to build pins and getting all the
Speaker 2: stuff out of storage and things like that, and there's
Speaker 2: only nine board slots and so that we can't we
Speaker 2: can't rely on just nine people to make this this
Speaker 2: fair happen. So if you have time and uh want
Speaker 2: to participate, please message us on Facebook. My phone number
Speaker 2: is actually listed in the front of the fair book.
Speaker 2: Please call it. You can call me, I don't care.
Speaker 2: If you have time to volunteer, we will plug you
Speaker 2: in and if you want to volunteer kind of longer term.
Speaker 2: There's always every once in a while the board position
Speaker 2: will come open. Depending on what district you live in,
Speaker 2: there mighty or may not be something open. But we
Speaker 2: do have a lot of committees that we have and
Speaker 2: we can have people from the public come and join
Speaker 2: those committees and run with that. That would be amazing.
Speaker 2: Things like doing the fair book. We have a fair
Speaker 2: Book committee and we have a Superintendent committee, so that's
Speaker 2: like Kevin and I are on the superintendent committee and
Speaker 2: we communicate with all of our superintendents and make sure
Speaker 2: we have superintendents for each event. And so there's a
Speaker 2: lot that goes on there.
Speaker 3: The superintendents, yep, they coordinate the entries and.
Speaker 1: When the judges get done. There is a lot of work, so.
Speaker 2: Advertising, vendors, ad Discovery, Children's Barnyard, collect the volunteers, community outreach,
Speaker 2: and even our budget. So we have community committees for
Speaker 2: all of those different areas, and there's only nine of us.
Speaker 2: So if you want to be on one of those committees,
Speaker 2: or if that's in your wheelhouse, any one of those
Speaker 2: things that we listen call call us.
Speaker 3: You can only tap your brain so many times before
Speaker 3: you're like, I can't think of nothing else, so we
Speaker 3: need we need help.
Speaker 1: Well, I'll tell you what. It sounds like a great
Speaker 1: time for folks who are looking for something worthwhile to do,
Speaker 1: not only to the community, but for the kids especially
Speaker 1: as this is really a good time and it's great
Speaker 1: entertainment and it's always great to see healthy competition too.
Speaker 1: And it's free. It's free. Great, you said the magic word.
Speaker 1: It is free.
Speaker 2: It's free.
Speaker 1: Alrighty folks, we've got the free fair in the date.
Speaker 3: Scott Every day is September fourth, Thursday, ye and.
Speaker 1: Runs till Saturday.
Speaker 3: Entries leave at six o'clock on s So but the
Speaker 3: concert is still gonna be going on. You can be
Speaker 3: still out there dancing, eat ice cream. Maybe bring you along, chare,
Speaker 3: just in case you get charged of dancing, gotcha. So
Speaker 3: already it's gonna be fun, all right. We're going to
Speaker 3: have a blast at the fair.