What's Happening at the Fair?

Easter Bingo is only one week away! This is a great opportunity to spend some quality time enjoying a fun event with your family and also help support the Wahkiakum County Fair. Our grand prize raffle is a 42” color flat screen TV. Raffle tickets for this prize are only $1 each and remember every ticket you purchase increases your chances of winning a big 42” TV! Bingo cards are three for $10 and every bingo winner will receive a delicious ham or two plump chickens as their bingo prize. Perfect to bake for your Easter Dinner! We also have a multiple prize raffle. These raffle prizes range from funny to useful and tickets can be purchased for $1 per ticket. Almost everyone goes home with prizes from this raffle! The Bingo will be held on April 6 at the Wendt Multi-purpose room, doors will open at 5:30 p.m. so you can purchase your bingo cards and raffle tickets. Bingo starts at 6 p.m. Snacks and beverages will be available to purchase at the event. Bring a can of food and we will give you one free bingo card. Only one free card per bingo player. The canned food you donate will be given to our local food bank. This is a Wahkiakum County Fair Advisory Board Event with all proceeds going directly to support and maintain your 2012 Wahkiakum County Fair. See you there!

Even though I have been in Florida for the last two weeks on vacation, a wonderful group of volunteers have continued to accomplish projects every day even in my absence. Fair Board member Bill Chamberlain and volunteers Ed Stevens, Georgie Billings, Barbara Clark, Chuck Gaines and Mackenzie Stevens have worked many hours to saw up the trees recently cut down in the park into firewood and clean up the debris. With so much wood to split Bill Chamberlain asked Maury Mooers if he would consider loaning the use of his wood splitter to the Fair. We owe Maury a big thank you, with the loan of his wood splitter this hard job has been accomplished a lot faster. Thank you, Maury!

Do you need firewood? Purchase raffle tickets to win our cord of firewood for $1 each at our Easter Bingo Event. The winning ticket will be drawn during the 2012 Wahkiakum County Fair. You can also purchase firewood raffle tickets by calling the Fair office at 795-3480, please leave your name and number with a short message. We can arrange a time to meet at the fairgrounds for your purchase of firewood raffle tickets.

Do you love flowers and want to become involved in the volunteer opportunities before and during our Fair? Here is your chance, a Floral superintendent is needed in the Adult Open Class T-building. You will be working with some of the nicest volunteers in the county as we make the T-building look beautiful. If interested and would like more information call the Fair office and leave a message. I will call you back soon!

If you need to gain access to the Fairgrounds contact Fair Manager Becky Ledtke at 560-0371 or you can call 360-795-3480 and leave a message.

The next Wahkiakum County Fair Advisory Board meeting will be on April 11, at 7 p.m. at the River Street Building meeting room in Cathlamet.