Be A Part Of The Fair

Corndogs, funnel cakes, livestock, preserves, carnival rides… yup, the Contra Costa County Fair is right around the corner. Be a part of “Old Fashion Fun” this year and showcase your work! Bake your best cookies, take your best picture, create the best scrapbook page ever, and nurture your prized plant - then enter it into one of the Fair’s contests and competitions.

There is something for everyone! Special contests include You’ve Got Mail contest – decorate a mail box with a barn theme, Recycled art -- create a masterpiece using recycled items found around your home (ex. cans, nails, wire etc.), and Marshmallow creation -- create an imaginative farm animal, a cow or maybe a rooster, using marshmallows as the main structure. There are too many to mention. Check the special contests section of the online exhibitor handbook.

There are traditional exhibits as well from preserved foods to homemade wine and from quilts to outdoor landscapes. Kids will enjoy showing off their Lego creations, short stories, paintings, photographs, scrapbook pages, jams and jellies, needlework, and so much more. Don’t forget my personal favorite: Plein Aire Painting on Saturday, June 5. For a Complete list, check the online exhibitor handbook.

So, wait are you waiting for? Sign up already!

Entry forms are due no later than May 4, 2010. Mailed entries must be postmarked by

May 4th. Be green and enter online.

There is still time to submit your application for Fair Queen. Every year the Fair crowns one of Contra Costa County’s lovely, poised, and energetic women as the new Fair queen, to serve as hostess during the Fair. The Fair Queen competition is not a pageant; it is a panel interview process to determine which applicant will best represent the youth of the county. The deadline for applications is Monday, March 29, 2009. Get your application on our website.

Make sure to save the dates as summer kicks off in June 2010 with the Contra Costa County Fair, June 3rd – 6th.