Almira Country Fair is coming on Saturday

September 27 – ALMIRA – The Almira Country Fair will be an entirely outdoor event this year to prevent events from spreading too far apart, according to JoAnn Eagle, one of the organizers.

“We were playing (bean toss) a block away from our other activities and then there were kids activities in the park,” Eagle said. “This puts everyone on the same page.”

The fun starts at 7.30 in the morning with the Fire Brigade Breakfast, according to the fair’s online calendar. Registration for the parade begins at 9 a.m. and participants can line up to take the stage at 9:30 a.m. at Almira Lions Memorial Park. The parade starts at 10 a.m.; first the children’s parade, and then the big (well, big for a town of 300 people) parade down Third Avenue between Main and Locust streets.

There’s a car show across from the park on Fourth Avenue. Registration begins at 8.30am, the show starts at 10am and the winners are announced at 2.30pm. Registration for the Lions Club beanbag toss tournament begins at 10 a.m. and the tournament begins at noon.

Vendors and food will be available on Elm Street on the south side of the park, including offerings from Okanogan’s Hillside Catering and Almira’s own North Ridge Farms. Along with bouncy houses, a climbing wall and bubble stations, there will also be a chalk station where attendees can vote for their favorite sidewalk art. And Wheat Country Quilters raffle tickets will be available for $1, with the money going toward scholarships for local students.

The Almira/Coulee-Hartline Grid Kids football game will coincide with the fair that day, Eagle said.

“They had to work pretty hard to plan,” Eagle said. “Many times when a family had to go to Odessa or Moses Lake they missed most of the fair. But if they are here they just have to watch the game and they can attend the rest of the fair. Fair enough.”

Eagle said the Almira Country Fair is run entirely by volunteers and sometimes runs out of volunteers, as it did in 2019, according to the town’s website. That year, a new group of volunteers stepped in and rescued it, Eagle said.

“When you’re a small town, it’s the same people who do everything,” he said. “The Lions Club, the fire department. (But) we actually have a lot of young families who moved into the city with their primary school kids and wanted to be a part of everything. And it was such a thrill… (They) come because we have a great school, the numbers are small.” , we have a lot of individual time.”