Great Basin Sun Serving Humboldt, Pershing and Lander Counties
Vol. 4 No. 35 • $1.00
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Wednesday, Aug. 27, 2025
For more information on the 2025 Tri-County Fair & Stampede or its related events, please visit www.LaborDayFair.com. The annual Labor Day Parade will kick things off on Saturday, beginning at 11 a.m. The parade, which is sponsored by the Agricultural District No. 3, has been a Humboldt County mainstay for 102 years. This year’s theme is “Go Hog Wild.”
Around these parts, Labor Day means just one thing: it’s time for a fabulous weekend dedicated to some serious, end-of-summer fun. “We have planned a very fun weekend,” said Darrel Field, chairman of this year’s Tri-County Fair Board. Field said the 2025 Fair not only will provide area residents with the opportunity to display their talents, but the weekend also will serve up great entertainment, food and—yes—plenty of good times. Field said from Thursday, August 29, through Sunday, August 31, the Winnemucca Events Complex will be filled with a great family to-do list—and the majority of events are free! This year the Fair will offer competition in more than 20 different divisions, including Ceramics, Crafts, Creative Arts, Crocheting, Knitting, Digital Arts, Fine Arts, Floriculture, Foods, Food Preservation, Fruits/Vegetables/
Crops, Handwork/Needlework, Photography, Quilting, Recycling, Science & Technology, Sewing, Youth Division, and the Create-a-Picture, Write-a-Story, Coloring, Mini-Construction, Pie and Watermelon Eating, Biggest Home Grown, Scavenger Hunt, and Pinewood Derby contests. The Labor Day Rodeo will return at 6 p.m. Saturday in the Main Arena Outside at the Winnemucca Events Complex. Rodeo-goers are in for a treat as some of the toughest cowboys and girls around compete in four events. Tickets are available online at LaborDayFair. com for $15 for adults and $5 for kids 6-12; kids 5 and under get in free. Friday evening beginning at 6 p.m., the Main Arena Outside will welcome the Jaripeo bull riding event featuring Rancho Galeana Los Toros Michoacanos, along with live music from “Los Grandes,” “Vicente Arreola Y Su Band Devoradora,” and “Banda Purembe La
Siempre Perdona.” Tickets are available online at LaborDayFair.com The Fair also has rounded up some very entertaining—and free—shows. “The Magic of Jay Frazier”and the “Joe Black Hypnosis Show” will return to the Main Stage Outside at the Winnemucca Event Center, along with other old favorites, like the “The Rowdy Refs Family Fun Show” and “Cowboy Buck’s Rootin Tootin Cowboy Music Show.” Additionally, the Northern Nevada Exotic Pet Expo will once again fill the Winnemucca Event Center from Friday through Sunday. Family members of all ages are invited to attend, learn and hold the “visitors”—and admission is free. Also, don’t miss the return of the “Winnemucca 4D Barrel Race” Friday through Sunday in the Winnemucca Events Complex Pavilion. This tough-girl competition is produced by 777 Barrel Racing and is sanctioned
with WPRA, SIBRA, BBR, NSBRA and TSBRA. Racers can expect $5,000 in added money. Local audiences are invited to cap off the weekend with the MLM Motorsports Premier West Coast Truck and Tractor Pulling event beginning at 6 p.m. Sunday in the Main Arena Outside at the Winnemucca Events Complex. Whether residents take part as a spectator or a participant, everyone will have a great time, and be back next year for more. Spectator tickets are $20 for adults and $10 for children ages 6-12; children ages 5 and under get in free. To buy tickets online, visit www.LaborDayFair.com. There will be plenty for kids to do and see at this year’s Fair, too. The Fair will see the return of the Mini-Construction, Create-a-Picture, Create-a-Story, Scavenger Hunt, and CONTINUED ON PAGE 31
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