Grant County Fair ‘23 in review
Barrel racer Pamela Capper-Coker makes her final turn during Saturday night’s barrel racing at the Moses Lake Roundup.
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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.
MOSES LAKE — Another year of the Grant County fair is come and gone, with victories, memories and maybe too much junk food eaten and beverages imbibed. Here’s a visual look back at this year’s Grant County Fair.
The Wheat Lands’ Community Fair and Ritzville Rodeo happened over the weekend as well and the Othello events are coming. Look for coverage of that elsewhere in today’s paper and in upcoming editions of the Columbia Basin Herald.
To review our coverage of the Grant County Fair, visit our Lifestyle page at: bit.ly/80FAIR.
