The magnificent six-up competition is always a crowd favorite at the Draft Horse Classic and Harvest Fair at the Nevada County Fairgrounds in Grass Valley.
July 13, 2012
Want to enter something in the Nevada County Fair? There’s still time! The deadline for submitting paper entry forms or to enter on-line using the Fair’s on-line entry system is July 20 at 4 pm. There are no entry fees for most categories, so simply visit the Fair Office on McCourtney Road or log-on to the Fair’s website atthe Nevada county Fair website to complete the entry process.
Join the thousands of Nevada County residents who enter exhibits each year in the more than 300 available categories. If you can make it, bake it, grow it or show it, we have a category for you! Don’t delay – enter now!
Complete descriptions of all categories are available in the Fair’s Competition Handbook, which is available on the Fair’s website at the Nevada County Fair website, at the Fair office, area libraries, and local chamber of commerce offices.
The 2012 Fair is August 8 – 12. For more information, call (530) 273-6217 or visit the Nevada County Fair website
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Seeking Volunteers for the 2012 Nevada County Fair
Volunteer Fair to be held on Tuesday, May 15, at the Fairgrounds
The Nevada County Fairgrounds is currently looking for individuals interested in volunteering at the 2012 Nevada County Fair, and will host a Volunteer Fair on Tuesday, May 15, from 2 – 6 pm at Ponderosa Hall at the Fairgrounds.
The Fairgrounds is seeking volunteers to help in the exhibit departments, to serve as greeters, to assist in parking, and to work with the Red Shirts overseeing customer service and public safety at the Fair. Volunteers will be asked to work four-hour shifts, and will receive free parking and free admission to the Fair on the day of volunteering, as well as a Fair t-shirt.
If you are interested in volunteering at this year’s Fair, fill out a volunteer application and bring it to the Volunteer Fair on May 15. Applications are available on the Fair’s website at www.NevadaCountyFair.com, at the Fair Office, and on the day of the Volunteer Fair.
Nevada County Fair’s volunteers play an important role in helping to make the annual Fair a success. It’s also an opportunity to donate time to the community, learn something new, and have some fun!
Applications available for those interested in performing or demonstrating at this year’s Fair
The Nevada County Fair is now accepting applications for local entertainers and community acts to perform at the 2012 Nevada County Fair, August 8 – 12. Do you have a dance group you’d like to see perform at the Fair? Does your group have a skill they’d like to demonstrate to Fair-goers? Want to do a martial arts demonstration or a cheer leading demonstration or show off your baton twirling skills? If so, the Fairgrounds wants your application. This is a great way to share your talents with the community!
Applications are now available on the website at www.NevadaCountyFair.com. To be considered, the application must be returned to the Fairgrounds by June 1. There is no paid compensation for community showcases and demonstrations.
The application is for those interested in performing on the Dance Pad (available afternoon and evening hours); The Green (available during afternoon hours); or the Tumbleweed Stage (available evening hours only).
This year’s Fair is August 8 – 12, and the theme is “Barnyard Safari.” For more information, visit www.NevadaCountyFair.com or call (530) 273-6217.
Nevada County Fair August 8 – 12, 2012
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The Granholm Family – (from left to right) Kaycee, Danny, Katie and Ben – recognized at the Nevada County Fair as the Family of the Year, 2011. Credit: Photo provided by Shaffers Originals
Community Encouraged to Nominate Nevada County Families
The Nevada County Fairgrounds is seeking nominations for the 2012 Fair Family of the Year. Each year a family is recognized at the Nevada County Fair, and this year the Fairgrounds is asking the community for its help in nominating a family for this special award.
To be considered, the Fair team is looking for a family who is very involved with the Fair, either through exhibiting or volunteering, and passionate about the Fair. Families chosen in previous years were recognized for their commitment to, and involvement with, the Nevada County Fair and the community.
If you’d like to nominate a family, please submit a one page summary of why you think the family of your choice deserves recognition as the 2012 Fair Family of the Year. The family chosen will be honored at opening ceremonies of the Nevada County Fair, and will also receive daily admission to the Fair, a season parking pass, ride coupons, and a family portrait from Schaffers Originals of Grass Valley.
This year’s Nevada County Fair is August 8 – 12, and the theme is “Barnyard Safari!” Visit www.NevadaCountyFair.com for information or call (530) 273-6217.
Wendy Oaks
Publicist, Nevada County Fairgrounds
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WIN IN $250 IN ARTWORK DESIGN CONTEST Submit the winning artwork for the 2012 Nevada County Fair and you could win
The Nevada County Fairgrounds is sponsoring a contest to find the best artwork to illustrate the 2012 Nevada County Fair theme – “Barnyard Safari.” If you’re a talented artist, and you’d like $250, this is the contest to enter!
The contest, which is open to Nevada County residents only, takes place now through Friday, February 10. If you submit the winning artwork, you will win $250 and a 2012 Nevada County Fair package that includes admission tickets, parking and carnival coupons. Additionally, the winning artwork will be used on various Fair promotional pieces, print ads, buttons, t-shirts, banners, posters, and flyers.
Interested artists may use any medium and can submit up to three entries, which must be on 8-1/2 by 11-inch paper. Entries can be delivered to the Fairgrounds Office at 11228 McCourtney Road or mailed to the Fair Office at PO Box 2687, Grass Valley, CA 95945. A complete set of rules can be found on the Fair’s website at the Nevada County Fair Website, or by calling the Fair Office at (530) 273-6217.
Visit the Nevada County Fair and help your community at the same time
Imagine being able to visit the annual Nevada County Fair at a discount, and be able to help the local Food Bank at the same time? At this year’s Fair, you can! The Nevada County Fairgrounds and The Food Bank of Nevada County are teaming up to help feed those in need.
Bring a can of food (or two or three) to the Fair on Sunday, August 14, and the Fair will give you a coupon for $1 off general admission to the Fair on that day. The Food Bank will have food collection bins available at the Fairgrounds from 10 am – 5 pm at Gates 1, 3 and 5, which is also where you’ll receive your coupon. It’s that simple!
All food collected on that day will be given to The Food Bank of Nevada County, which distributes food to those in need in our county. At last year’s canned food drive, 1,600 pounds of food were collected – enough to feed 750 – 800 families.
It’s the best of both worlds – fun at the Fair, while helping out in the community. It’s all part of Community Involvement Day, sponsored by YubaNet.com, on Sunday, August 14, at the Nevada County Fair.
This year’s Fair is August 10 – 14. Visit www.foodbankofnc.org or call (530) 272-3796.
Wendy Oaks
Publicist, Nevada County Fairgrounds
(530) 273-6217 wsoaks@gmail.com
The Granholm Family – (from left to right) Kaycee, Danny, Katie and Ben – will be recognized at the Nevada County Fair as the Family of the Year. Credit: Photo provided by Shaffers Originals
By Wendy Oaks
The Danny Granholm Family of Grass Valley has been named the 2011 Family of the Year by the Nevada County Fair’s Board of Directors. The Board chose the Granholm Family because of their ongoing participation in the Nevada County Fair and their commitment and efforts in supporting Nevada County agricultural youth programs.
Danny and Katie Granholm, who were both raised in Grass Valley, have been attending the Fair since they were children. As a teenager, Katie worked at the concerts hosted at the Fairgrounds, and grew up watching her grandparents square dance each year at the Fair. Danny also attended the Fair as a child, and remembers “being unable to sleep the night before the Fair because it felt like it was Christmas Day.”
Most recently, for the past eight years, Katie and Danny have been active in youth agriculture programs. In addition to showing animals with their own children, Danny is currently the President of the Nevada County Ag Youth Boosters and Katie is a past director of the Nevada County Livestock Producers.
As owners of BK Powder Coating, which they started in the garage of Danny’s parent’s home in 1996, Danny and Katie volunteer to donate the powder coating on all Ag Mechanic projects for students from both Bear River and Nevada Union High school.
“It is such a pleasure to work with these students,” said Katie. “They work so hard all year on their Fair projects, and it’s great to be able to come alongside these kids and help them and encourage them.”
Their children, Ben and Kaycee, have also been actively involved in the Fair for many years. Both began exhibiting animals about eight years ago. At the 2011 Fair, Kaycee will show sheep, and Ben will exhibit a hog.
Both Ben and Kaycee have gone on to pursue agricultural education. Ben, 19, graduated from Nevada Union in 2010. He recently completed a year of service to the FFA, where he served as the California FFA State Treasurer. In this role, Ben recently testified at the Senate’s Joint Fairs Committee on behalf of the network of California Fairs. In August, Ben will begin his studies at Fresno State, majoring in Agriculture Business. Kaycee, 17, is a senior at Nevada Union and involved in FFA. She is currently serving as the Superior Region President for FFA, and is preparing for college, where she will major in agriculture.
“Year after year, Danny and Katie dedicate countless hours to the Fair and the agricultural community,” said Sandy Woods, CEO of the Fairgrounds. “They are such a gracious and humble family, with a selfless attitude, and a willingness to give – and they do it all with kindness. They are a nice family and so deserving of being the Family of the Year!”
About being named the Fair’s Family of the Year, Katie says, “We are thrilled and so surprised. It’s a huge honor and we are humbled because there are so many other families who also deserve this recognition. We love being part of the Fair and seeing the community come together to support our community’s youth – and we are honored to be part of that.”
The Granhom Family will be honored at opening ceremonies of the Nevada County Fair, which runs August 10 – 14. They will receive a Fair package of tickets, as well a family portrait created by Shaffers Originals of Grass Valley.
For more information about the Nevada County Fair, visit www.NevadaCountyFair.com or call (530) 273-6217.
Drive a car in the fair’s demolition derby and you could win $1000 for your favorite charity.
Back by popular demand, the Nevada County Fair is providing organizations and businesses the opportunity to sponsor and drive a car in the Fair’s popular Demolition Derby, while at the same time raising money for a favorite charity or service organization.
Organizations and businesses can purchase a car for $500 and the Fair will provide a Derby car to use in the Demolition Derby. The organization can choose to provide its own driver or the Fair will provide a driver for the car. Additionally, the car can be picked up on August 5 to customize the car or it can be left at the Fair, where it will have a number painted on it.
The sponsored Derby cars will participate in their own event at the Demolition Derby, held on Sunday, August 14, at 7 pm in the Arena. The last of the sponsored cars moving will receive $1,000 towards the charity or service organization of their choice. Last year’s winner was Dokimos’ Pharmacy, who received $1,000 for their charity, Hospice of the Foothills.
There are only a limited number of cars available. Call the Fair Office at
(530) 273-6217 to reserve your car and obtain a list of rules. Forms are also available at www.NevadaCountyFair.com. This year’s Nevada County Fair is August 10-14.
Art work by Sandy Gold Winner 2011 Fair Art Work Contest
By Wendy Oaks
Want to enter something in the Nevada County Fair? The deadline has been extended, so there’s still time! The deadline for submitting paper entry forms or to enter on-line using the Fair’s on-line entry system is now July 22. There are no post entry fees, so simply visit the Fair Office on McCourtney Road or log-on to the Fair’s website at www.NevadaCountyFair.com to complete the entry process.
Join the thousands of Nevada County residents who enter exhibits each year in the more than 300 available categories. If you can make it, bake it, grow it or show it, we have a category for you! Don’t delay – enter now!
Complete descriptions of all categories are available in the Fair’s Competition Handbook, which is available on the Fair’s website at www.NevadaCountyFair.com, at the Fair office, area libraries, and local chamber of commerce offices.
The 2011 Fair is August 10 – 14. For more information, call (530) 273-6217 or visit www.NevadaCountyFair.com.
Katie Howard former winner Idol Competition - Photo courtesy of mcguireplace.net
By Wendy Oaks
Do you love to sing? If so, you could win $100, Fair admission tickets, and money for your favorite charity! The Nevada County Fair is looking for talented vocalists to sing in the “Golden” Idol Competition at this year’s Fair.
Nevada County residents ages 16 and up are invited to participate in this crowd favorite on Wednesday, August 10, at 9 pm on the Pine Tree Stage at the Fairgrounds. The grand prize is $100, two Fair admission tickets, a parking pass and two Friday night arena tickets. Second place is $50, two admission tickets, a parking pass and two Thursday night arena tickets; and third prize is $25, two admission tickets and a parking pass.
Singers will be judged by a panel of local celebrities, who will narrow it down to five finalists. Audience members will then vote with quarters for the grand prize winner. The quarters will be weighed on stage and the winner will be announced that night. All quarters collected will be donated to the non-profit of the winner’s choice.
Last year’s Idol Competition winner was Jennifer Davis, who received $300 for her charity, Interfaith Ministry.
Early entry is encouraged, as there is a limit of 15 contestants for this event. The entry fee is only $5, and entries close on Friday, August 5 at 5 pm. All contestants will receive a free admission pass to the Fair on Wednesday.
A complete list of rules and a registration form can be obtained from the Fair’s website at www.NevadaCountyFair.com, by calling the Fair Office at 273-6217, or sending an e-mail to debby@nevadacountyfair.com. The Idol Competition is sponsored by Old Town Café in downtown Grass Valley, and Citizens Bank has graciously donated its time to sell quarters during the show.
Bring your friends, your quarters, and be prepared for a great night of music and entertainment at this year’s Nevada County Fair, August 10 – 14.
