rock county fair
By Mavis FodnessJuly 31, 2024Ag Society President Lee Sells appeared relieved Monday night as society and 4-H volunteers cleaned the fairgrounds. For four days, July 24-27, the Ag Society hosted the annual Rock County Fair filled with entertainers, a midway, and grandstand events while working with the Extension service on qualifying classes for 4-H’ers to go to the upcoming state fair. The event seemed to go by in a blink…- July 31, 2024The results reported for the Open Class competition at the 2024 Rock County Fair are as follows: Buckets of Flowers •Champions: Pat R., Delores Halverson. •Reserve: Julie R., Connie Wieneke Field Crops •Best of Show: Callista Van Grootheest. •Reserve Best of Show: Scott Wessels. •Champions: Callista Van Grootheest, Wayne Brands, Eric Fick (2), Scott Wessels. •Reserve Champions:…
By Mavis FodnessJuly 31, 2024Saturday afternoon’s Premier Showmanship event featured four 4-H’ers who first came together as a group three years ago. While three of the four youth are related, they share a common bond as county fair and state fair exhibitors. They were also four of the six competitors in the showmanship contest. Claire Knobloch, Grace Fagerness, Jed Fagerness and Nathan Kinsinger sought each other out as…
By Mavis FodnessJuly 24, 2024The July 25 dairy show this week will mark the end of 20 years in 4-H for the Philip and Theresa Raak family of rural Jasper. Since 2004 there has been at least one Raak sibling in the show ring at the Rock County Fair. At first there was Matthew, now 28, followed in two-year intervals by Andrew, Joshua, Jacob and now Caleb, who is competing in his last Rock County Fair this week as an eligible…- By Jason BerghorstJuly 24, 2024The annual Rock County Fair is underway at the fairgrounds in Luverne. The fair opened Wednesday and continues through Saturday. Admission is free. “We are a free, non-gated fair,” said Fair Board President Lee Sells. He said there will be free live music and free entertainers and vendors on the fairgrounds throughout the fair. “We do everything we can with our budget to bring in many…
July 24, 2024Rock County 4-H’ers were busy Wednesday, July 17, and Monday, July 22, entering static projects for this week’s county fair. Judges were busy both days talking with 4-H’ers about their projects and awarding ribbons. Wednesday judging took place in air-conditioned comfort at the American Reformed Church in Luverne while Monday judging took place at the fairgrounds. The fair continues through…
By Rick Peterson, general managerJuly 25, 2023If you don’t know it’s fair week, you must be living under a rock. The four-day event actually takes months of planning and preparation by the volunteers that make up the Rock County Agricultural Society. The behind-the-scene work is so good you don’t even notice it. I mean that as a compliment. You probably won’t notice the freshly painted buildings, the new additional sidewalks and the upgrades…
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