A member of the Norman County Fair Board has received a national award. Don Merkens received a Heritage Award last week from the International Association of Fairs and Expositions. Merkens tells R&J News about the award. Merkens has been with the Norman County Fair since 1986 and he talks about changes at the Fair since…
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The 127th edition of the Norman County Fair is now in the record books. Norman County Fair Board President Don Merkens said this year’s fair went well, despite the rain on Friday and Saturday. It was pointed out that more tickets were sold for this year’s fair, meaning the fair continues to grow. Merkens says…
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The Norman County 4-H chapter wrapped up their livestock shows this Saturday morning with the rabbit and poultry show. According to Norman County 4-H Extension Educator Linda Houglum the 4-H events went off without a hitch and no major problems. Even though heavy rainfall did occur at the fair on Friday and Saturday all the…
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The Norman County 4-H Shows continued this Friday with the cattle, sheep, goat, and alpaca shows taking place and the man judging the shows has become a familiar face to the Norman County Fair. Greg Harder has been judging livestock for over 40 years and has judged the Norman County 4-H show 10 times over…
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The Norman County 4-H’ers continue to present their projects at this year’s Norman County Fair in Ada. Norman County 4-H Extension educator Linda Houglum says that so far, all the events have gone well. Woodland 4-H Club president and exhibitor Madalynn Crompton also believes that everything has gone well so far this week, and that…
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REACH was presented with a grant worth $25,000 by Cenex earlier today at the Norman County Fair. Peggy Chisolm with REACH describes what the nonprofit organization has been up to and some things coming up in the organization’s future. The grant presented by Cenex will help REACH fund some of their upcoming programs like their…
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One of Thursday’s visitors to the Norman County Fair was Princess Kay of the Milky Way, goodwill ambassador for the Minnesota dairy industry. Rachel Rynda, this year’s Princess Kay of the Milky Way, showed Norman County Fair visitors how to milk a cow and talked about what dairy farmers do. She says meeting people is…
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ADA, MN—As part of Thursday’s (June 22) Youth Day at the Norman County Fair, there will be a bike giveaway for kids. Fair Board member Dennis Riepe: Jeremy Thornton was the Norman County Sheriff who passed away earlier this year. There are also bike giveaways scheduled Friday afternoon at 5:45 and Saturday afternoon at 2. …
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The parade officially kicks off the 127th Norman County Fair in Ada. Check out some of the parade participants.
Once again, the Norman County Historical Society will be open during this week’s Norman County Fair. Solveig Kitchell, the historical society’s executive director, says one exhibit this year is called “What’s In Your Phone?” Kitchell says the historical society is sponsoring live music again this year. There’s more information about the Norman County Historical Society…
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