Grant County Fair 2020

Photos Courtesy of Crystal Farris, Sue Richins and Dayna Jones.

This year's Grant County Fair, due to COVID-19 restrictions, consisted of a livestock show and sale. Because most of the animals had been purchased long before anyone had ever heard of a coronavirus named SARS-CoV-2 or the disease it causes, which was named COVID-19 by the World Health Organization, the governor said that livestock shows could go on.

But because of limitations on large gatherings, none of the usual Fair events took place—no vendors, no exhibits, no rodeo, no dances, not much of anything—except for animals with their owners and families. Even the sale was at least partially virtual.

Let's hope for a "normal" fair in 2021.

[Editor's Note: When we get the lists of winners, we will post.]