FFA and 4-H kids, and the hundreds of fair exhibitors, are getting ready for fair season in North Central Washington.

The North Central Washington Fair is August 21st - 24th in Waterville.

The Chelan County Fair is September 4th - 7th, the first weekend after Labor Day in Cashmere.

It's a great time of the year to celebrate the agricultural and farming roots of the region.

The North Central Washington Fair was originally held as the Waterville Potato Carnival more than a century ago. My wife showed lots of rabbits at the fairgrounds in Waterville as a young girl growing up on a wheat farm in Mansfield, WA

My early exposure to the fair experience was quite different.Growing up in Los Angeles, CA, I was one of the city kids going to the L.A. County Fair in Pomona, CA, to see 4-H and FFA

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