Competition Handbook Now Available

You Can’t Win Unless You Enter!

The Fair’s popular Competition Handbook is now available and packed with information about familiar categories and new contests. The handbook is full of the usual categories, and with this year’s Fair theme of “Barnyard Buckaroos,” there are also plenty of special entry possibilities for those interested in entering projects for judging. Make something out of jeans, make a buckaroo blanket, a horse cake, or decorate a cowboy hat or pair of boots. For children and teens, there are several special categories, including creating a milk carton covered wagon, a wanted poster of a notorious bandit, a western picture frame, a covered wagon or log cabin out of a shoe box. “My Own Barnyard Buckaroo” is a dress up contest where kids can dress their pet or barnyard pal and take a picture.

Residents who have exhibited within the last three years will get the handbook by mail. The free handbook will also be available at the Grass Valley and Nevada City Chamber of Commerce offices, county libraries, business sponsors, at the Fairgrounds office or on-line at http://www.nevadacountyfair.com/.

Entries open on June 2. The deadline for submitting paper entry forms is July 12 at 1 pm. The deadline for on-line entries is Friday, July 18 at 5 pm. Winning exhibits receive prize ribbons and some get money awards. The handbook contains information on premiums paid per category and other Fair information such as how to attend the Fair for free, discount days, and details about daily contests.

For more information about the Competition Handbook and this year’s Nevada County Fair, visit their website at http://www.nevadacountyfair.com/ or call (530) 273-6217.