Susan West with the Lincoln County Fair Board Staff stepped into the SVI Radio studio to promote the dates, deadlines and details for this year’s community booths at the fair. Additional details can be found inside the fair book, which can be accessed by clicking here.

The following transcript of the above interview is AI generated. Minor spelling errors are likely to occur.

(0:00) Weekday wake up on the SVI Radio Network, Lincoln County Fair getting closer and closer. (0:06) And there’s so much going on as always with the Lincoln County Fair. One of those, (0:09) the community booths, which is a highlight for so many people who attend the fair.

(0:13) Susan West is in studio from the fair board on the staff. Susan is typically the show works (0:19) coordinator and has also been volunteered to help with the community booths this year as well. (0:26) Susan, thanks so much for your time.

How are you today? (0:28) Great. Thanks for having me. (0:29) Absolutely.

Appreciate what you’re doing. And tell us how long have you been involved (0:33) with the Lincoln County Fair? It’s been a number of years, right? (0:35) A number of years, nearly 15. (0:37) Yeah.

Excellent. What keeps you coming back to the fair before we get into the community booths? (0:41) Because I look at the fair board and all the hours and hours and volunteer hours that you guys do, (0:47) what keeps you motivated to keep doing it? (0:48) I think just, I’ve been involved for so many years. My kids were involved and it’s just (0:53) something I really enjoy.

I love seeing the people and enjoy seeing all the entries and (1:00) that sort of thing. (1:01) Excellent. Love it.

So let’s talk community booths and how that all works. Now, for those who maybe (1:07) are new to Lincoln County, people kind of move in and move out. If they’re not as familiar with (1:11) the community booths, just explain what they are and how they work.

(1:15) So each community has a section in that north building and they decorate each one (1:23) for each community. And then people within that community bring their entries of all types, (1:30) from canning to photography to sewing and needlework and all kinds of things. (1:36) Anything and everything.

Yeah, absolutely. My son made a homemade baseball, like a T for baseball. (1:44) He’s going to enter that.

I mean, it really can’t be anything, right? (1:47) It can. There’s so many possibilities. (1:50) Love it.

So Susan, tell us how people, first off, how do they get an entry submitted to put (1:55) in the community booth? (1:56) So you need to go to the website, which is www.lincolncountyfair.info. Once you’re at that (2:04) site, at the top of the page, you’ll see online entries. And once you click there, you go to the (2:10) upper right and click sign in. You enter your personal information.

From there, you go to create (2:15) entries and you’ll choose a department, like sewing or needlework or canning or crops maybe. (2:23) And then within those departments, you’ll find divisions. In crops, for instance, you might (2:28) enter eggs.

In flowers, you’ll find all different flowers. And then from there, you go to a class (2:35) within that division. That embroidery might be hand embroidery or sewn embroidery or (2:42) something like that.

Once you get your entries entered, you continue and check out. You have (2:50) to be sure to check out. Then your entries will be recorded.

Once you do that, you go back to your (2:56) account summary and print your entry tags so you can attach those to your entries when you bring (3:02) them to the fair. (3:03) Excellent. So that’s how you do it.

Just do it all online. (3:06) lincolncountyfair.info. Follow those steps and it’s pretty straightforward to get those (3:10) entries submitted. What kind of timeline do we have? Deadline’s coming up, right? (3:14) Yes.

The entry deadline is Wednesday, July 29th. And then you’ll bring your entries to the fair (3:20) on Friday, July 31st from four to seven, except for the flowers, crops, and baked goods. Those (3:28) will come on Monday from 730 to 830.

(3:32) Perfect. And the cool thing about it is once you drop off your items, there is a period where the (3:39) exhibit building for the community booths is not quite open to the public yet because they’re (3:43) judging. So you might win some ribbons and some things like that.

And then tell us when does the (3:48) community booth open to the public? (3:50) After the judging, the booth will be or the building will be open Tuesday through Friday (3:55) from noon to 630 and Saturday from 12 to 5. And you can come and see how you did. (4:02) Perfect. Susan West with the Lincoln County Fair Board in studio today to tell us about (4:05) the community booths at Lincoln County Fair.

Susan, I highly encourage everyone who goes (4:09) to the fair to check them out. There’s obviously and for rightly so a lot of hype around the (4:12) rodeos and Ian Munzik and the livestock sales and the rides and carnival and everything that (4:16) goes on with the fair. Don’t miss the community booths.

They’re really cool, aren’t they? (4:21) Very interesting. Very creative. It’s great to see what people come up with.

(4:25) It’s really fun. (4:26) Absolutely. Susan West and community booths.

And again, Susan, give us the deadlines again (4:30) for entries. (4:31) The entry deadline is midnight on Wednesday, July 29th, and you must hit checkout. Be sure (4:38) to do that.

(4:39) Perfect. Anything we missed? (4:40) I think we got it. (4:41) Excellent.

Susan West this morning. It’s all part of the weekday wake up on SVI radio.