Spring fair starts Friday

MOSES LAKE — People are marking out spaces for booths, while carnival rides are being set up for Friday’s opening of the Grant County Spring Fair and Home Show.

The free event is open from 1 p.m. to 10 p.m. on Friday, 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. on Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Sunday. It features home improvement demonstrations, carnival rides, animal shows and various vendors.

“We’re trying really hard to make this a family event,” fair board member Laura Cobb said. “We hope we can have something that the families will want to come out to. We are about families.”

The fair features more than 50 vendors with items ranging from a person selling wooden roses to food vendors. Some of the businesses scheduled for the fair include Avon, CDA Structures, Blue Heron Turf, Costless Carpet and Sentsy Candles.

“This year we’re doing something a little different. Our main vendors are going to be in the 4-H building,” Cobb said. “We chose that because it’s heated and if we have bad weather like we’ve been blessed with the last few years people will have a place to go in out of the cold.”

Along with the vendors, there will be giveaways, Cobb said, adding the items are high quality.

“Gary Ribail, he goes out, him and his wife, and they buy things that they would buy for their own house,” she said. “They’re pretty nice.”

Several companies, including Penhalluricks True Value and Skone Irrigation, are scheduled to give demonstrations in the Commercial Building, starting Friday.

“Some of the vendors have chosen to not actually get on the schedules,” she said. “They kind of want to do it a little bit loosely, where if there’s nobody up there, then they’ll hop up there and do a little demonstration.”

A junior livestock show is scheduled to start at the fairgrounds today running through Sunday.

Davis Shows Northwest is providing carnival rides at the fairgrounds during the event.

“They are such good people to work with,” she said. “(There) are a lot of carnival companies, but we are really blessed to be working with them.”

A 4-H tack swap is scheduled for the Ag Building. Cobb said it looked like the group has a good event planned.

“This year, they found a lady, (who) has a horse-drawn buggy,” she said. “It’s going to be out here to sell it.”

The Super Stock Lawn Mower Racing Association starts racing at the rodeo arena at 1 p.m. Saturday. Board member Hal Gruver said this is the first sanctioned lawn mower race at the fairgrounds, saying the mowers get up to 40 mph in the race.

“These are not like what we had before,” Cobb said. “These guys go all over the country, so we’re really looking forward to having them here.”

The Columbia Basin Barrel Racing Association is having an event at the arena on Sunday, starting around 10 a.m.