County Fair Returns With 5 Days Of Hometown Enjoyable! — Merced County Times

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Western Days Kickoff

Grab your cowboy hat and head right down to the Merced Western Days Pre-Rodeo Kickoff in Downtown Merced on Saturday, June 6, from 11 a.m. to three p.m. This family-friendly occasion at Bob Hart Square options children’ actions, roping contests, horses and riders, dwell music, native distributors, and all types of enjoyable. It’s a kick-off to the primary occasion: the PRCA Pro Rodeo, June 12-13, on the Grandstand in the course of the Fair.

Everything is going on so quick as summer season is nearly upon us. 

We’re getting by means of the elections, the highschool graduations, and naturally, the Merced County Fair is simply days away, beginning Wednesday, June 10. 

The flashing carnival lights, the scent of deep-fried novelty meals, the roar of engines, and dwell music in each path — it’s all coming our means for 5 days of hometown enjoyable. 

Inside this week’s print version of the Times, readers will discover our annual Fair Special, an entire information to all Grandstand occasions, the live shows, the rides, the meals distributors and the displays. Everything it’s essential find out about having fun with the truthful is inside these pages. Grab a duplicate when you can! Share it together with your family members, and plan your journeys to the truthful!

But earlier than the motion begins, let’s take a second to acknowledge this 135-year-old custom. 

Yes, the Merced County Fair may be traced again to 1891. It’s far more than a five-day summer season occasion. The fairgrounds is an important agricultural hub for youth growth, a large financial driver, and a flexible year-round group house.

Over the many years, it has served because the “birthplace” of Merced College, acted instead sports activities middle for faculties missing services, and functioned as an emergency staging space for firefighters and well being care employees. 

Appropriately, the theme of this 12 months’s Fair is: “Our Roots Run Deep.” 

And it’s greater than a theme, based on John Allgaier, the CEO of the County Fair. 

Says Allgaier, “It is a celebration of the generations whose hard work, perseverance, and dedication built our community through commerce, agriculture, culture, and family traditions. Our roots run deep in a rich history that continues to shape who we are today while inspiring future generations for years to come.”