Rice County Fair

Fair Executive Secretary John Dvorak will stop by KDHL today to give us a preview of this week's fun and educational experiences you can partake in at the Rice County Fair. There is actually some activity on the fairgrounds today.

The Fair Queen contest was started 42 years ago by legendary KDHL Farm Director Dean Curtis. The Rice County Fair is in it's 145th year

Rice County Fair manager John Dvorak will be my guest on today's AM Minnesota program. Normally John does not have all the numbers on grandstand attendance, parking and other events all analyzed yet. Because the Rice County Fair is a free fair, there is no way to get a hard number on attendance...

You may have noticed a number of young adults in blue uniforms walking around at the Rice County Fair. These young adults are part of the Minnesota State Law Enforcement Explorers. They are still in high school but through the program they can put on a uniform and  get some training...

The Rice County Fair was last week, and as always, there was fun for everyone!  To relive the highlights, check out these fun pictures from the fair!

It was fun again this year to be the "official" un-hooker at the NTPA Truck and Tractor Pull Saturday evening at the Rice County Fair. The pull was canceled last year because of heavy rain the morning of the pull. With all the rain earlier in the week I was wondering if we would have it this year...

Wednesday afternoon there was a heavy thunderstorm that moved through the Rice County Fair grounds. We were dry in the KDHL booth until the wind really picked up. We all scattered into buildings to wait until the storm passed. When we came back everything including the chairs in our booth was wet...

The annual Rice County 4-H Livestock Auction will be Saturday morning on the Rice County Fairgrounds in Faribault. A complimentary buyers breakfast will be served in the 4-H building at 8AM. The auction will begin about 9:15 in the Livestock Show arena...

Each day of the Rice County Fair John Anderson, Rice County Fair manager John Dvorak and I enjoy breakfast and broadcast live from the Cardinal Café. The food is great and it is always nice to see the Bethlehem Academy students taking their turn working at the Cardinal Café...

Rice County Sheriff Troy Dunn told KDHL on Wednesday there will be a distracted driving simulator at the Rice County Fair on Friday evening. Dunn said Kathy Cooper of the Rice County Safe Roads Coalition approached him about having the simulator at the fair...