What's Happening at the Fair?

The J. A. Wendt multi-purpose room will be filled with your friends and neighbors Friday night as they try to be the first to shout out Bingo! It’s time to support your Wahkiakum County Fair by attending the Wahkiakum County Fair Advisory Board’s Easter Bingo fund raising event tomorrow night. Our grand prize raffle is a 42” color flat screen TV. Raffle tickets for this prize are only $1 each. 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 each. Almost everyone goes home with prizes from this raffle! The Bingo will be held on April 6th at the J. A. 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 fund raising event with all proceeds going directly to support and maintain your 2012 Wahkiakum County Fair. See you there!

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.

A new project to improve the water system in the Fairgrounds Park is underway. Bill Chamberlain is using his equipment to install a new water line to the Fairgrounds Park covered area. The project will greatly improve the water system for our campers and we will have water readily available if there is a fire in the park area. Bill and volunteer Ed Stevens were working quickly to accomplish this project last week but their ditch kept filling up with rain water! Work on the project has been halted for a few days. Let’s hope for some sunny skies in the near future so they can continue with this project.

Some major landscaping has been accomplished at the fairgrounds in spite of all this rainy weather! We recently received a donation from Esther Gregg, these funds were to be used to purchase plants for our flower beds. Six flower beds have been weeded and replanted giving the fairgrounds a beautiful manicured look . Thank you, Esther, Ed, Barb and Georgie, the new flower beds look great!

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 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.