LDN readies for Logan County Fair's 75th anniversary

Greater coverage and new collector items

[August 01, 2011]  It's that special time of the year, the peak of summer when the best that agriculture has to offer melds with community. Competitions, special events, entertainment, food and good times bring friends and neighbors together to simply celebrate the good life in Logan County.

What does that mean at LDN? Well, after months of planning and a year of recovery, the staff is ready for extra-long hours. Once again we pledge to bring our readers as much of the fair as we possibly can.

Last year LDN staff broke every coverage record for the fair you could imagine. All the results, stories and over 300 color pictures were posted during that one week last August.

That makes for a tough job to try to do more, but we are ready and in place to do just that.

This year, thanks to readership and advertisers, LDN will once again expand Logan County Fair coverage.

In all, eight reporters with cameras will be on the ground taking pictures, writing stories and getting results of all the fair activities during the busy week.

You may have noticed that all last week we were gearing up with pre-fair stories. Just in case you missed one of those marvelous stories, they will again appear in our fair coverage section starting this week

The fair, to LDN, means long hours with no concern of punching out and going home until the day's work is posted -- and we won't worry if it is late at night or the weekend either.

The staff at LDN takes the job of true local coverage as a calling. As such, we will do everything we can to not let our readers down.

A collector's DVD with all the fair coverage and pictures that went into LDN was very popular last year. Although we publish hundreds of pictures, we actually take hundreds and hundreds more that don't make our publication.

Fair memories in DVD form will be made available again, plus a new, separate DVD for collection will also be made available. One DVD will contain all the fair's results, articles and photos in LDN. The second DVD will contain all the photos taken during the fair.

The DVDs will be $10 each, with a portion of the profit going to Logan County's 4-H to help fund programs. DVDs can be ordered at the fair office or the Logan County Extension office, both located on the fairgrounds.

So get ready, Logan County. Mike and Jan and Karen and Nila and Marla and Jessie and Nancy and Deb will be at your fair. We all hope to see you there.

And smile: Even if you don't make the online version, you very well could be in the DVD.

Enjoy the fair.

[LDN staff]