Grant County Fair ‘23 in review

Grant County Fairgrounds staffer Darci Homesley presents Ned LeDoux with a framed copy of the fair posters from his performance and his father’s, 31 years earlier to the day.

Sydney Stone of the Moses Lake 89ers 4-H club brings her grand champion steer around the ring at the Grant County Fair livestock sale the morning of Aug. 18.

Youth riders opened the three nights with mutton bustin’, where the aspiring cowboys and cowgirls rode on top of sheep inside the Rodeo Arena.

There’s an art to driving a tractor with a trailer, and competitors like Dale Hart proved that during this year’s tractor driving contest at the Grant County Fair.

Not every event at the Grant County Fair was Western inspired. Competitors like this young lady showed off their English Equitation skills at this year’s event.

Nohemi Gomez, foreground, took home the reserve champion ribbon in Future Farmers of America class market swine on a hot Wednesday at the Grant County Fair. The heat during this year’s fair was intense on some days, but FFA competitors still wore their traditional jackets for showing and did whatever it took to keep their show animals cool and comfortable. Pigs were a particular challenge because they don’t sweat to help keep themselves cool.

It just wouldn’t be a proper afFAIR without the Agri-Service Demo Derby at the Grant County Fair/Moses Lake Roundup. Competitors took their up-armored clunkers, put on helmets and other safety gear, and drove into the ring to smash cars and have a good time and entertain onlookers.