and something else happening this
weekend beyond fun rides and great food
the Southwest Florida and Lee County
Fair celebrates and shares the
importance of agriculture and education
in our ever-changing world now in its
92nd year we are so happy to share
details on this year's fair now only
hours away frame Crone is the fair
manager and Frank circus is the fair
chairman both joining us this morning to
give us details good morning Carly
welcome back you guys ready
there are literally hours away all right
so give us details let's start with you
free open tomorrow at 5:00 with sneak
peek Thursday you'll be $15 right bands
that's your gate admission and your
rides and then we have specials all
through the week listed on our website
and in our brochure yeah it's pretty
cool because really whatever kind of
your family needs are however many days
you want to go there is a package there
for you is that kind of the best way to
go online and figure out yes if you deal
is yes ma'am if you go online you can
get advance tickets at a discounted rate
and that way you also skip the line at
the ticket booth you can go straight in
to the scanners and have more time they
get in and enjoy the fare well you know
I kind of hinted at the beginning of it
Frank what I love about it too yes
there's fun rides and yes there's great
food but the agriculture part of this
kind of explain the link to that and why
it's so important to have a fare like
this again and it's 92nd year yes
livestock was a big part of the fair and
we have a lot of great at livestock
exhibits the kids do a great job with
their raising their animals for the fair
and we have livestock shows throughout
the whole week and then a big sale of
our market animals on the last Saturday
of the fair what do you think it's
important to make sure that that you
know this is a part of the the fair and
we get families out there to kind of see
what's going on and see what's happening
well it's very important for our
community to be able to see what these
children besides the children gaining
the responsibility and all the work and
effort it puts into it opening up to our
community that may not have a chance to
spend time with an animal like that or
see what's behind the scenes of raising
livestock and raising animals well and
you really need to go online again and
kind of see what the details are and win
do you guys brought a brush there is
like I mean it's like endless I feel I
don't know how you guys are gonna keep
up with everything it is busy our
schedule is very packed
that's our flyer you can pick those up
in locations around town and there is
that actually something to do every day
yeah so you've got to go on longer shows
as well I know there's this pirate show
that you guys are excited about we have
free entertainment throughout the 11
days we have the highwire pirate show
there's a nude or petting zoo we have an
illusion illusion show this year oh yeah
banana Derby explains that's the one
with the monkeys yes around the little
tray yeah well and talk about we were
talking with the livestock and the kids
there but I know that different schools
how many schools are involved with this
- I mean I know it represents a lot of
Southwest Florida it does we do a
competent and exhibit competition with
the schools and we have 77 schools
participating this year their boots are
judged and then after the fair we will
present the winning - at the principal's
meeting all right
there's also a hay bale decorating
contest as well yeah again you've
thought of it all we've tried so again
it opens tomorrow hey where's this
located tell people where it's at that's
it's a place where they know and love
already right it's best for the same
early Civic Center Fairgrounds and it's
right on the corner of Highway 78 and
highway 31 parking pretty easy very
large park a lot easy to get in and out
of in free parking free parking
we like that alright so as we close here
though that website tell people to go to
the website okay that's probably their
best kind of option to figure out when
they want to go what they want to do and
don't miss opportunity to purchase your
mega passes in advance that's the great
way to get for your entrance and your
rides available at our hayloft on Palm
Beach Boulevard Williams Hardware on
Palm Beach Boulevard or like we said go
to the website do all your pre purchase
tickets online
awesome well I have a two-year-old and a
three-year-old that we can't wait to
take so yeah we're gonna have to look at
again and figure out either there's
much to do I don't know we're gonna
narrow it down we're looking forward to
seeing you alright thank you so much
we're gonna let you guys go because I
know you've got a got a lot to kind of
tie it loosened you can do it alright
we'll see y'all next week - thank you
thank you and of course for more info
head to our website as well Foxborough
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