{"id":145622,"date":"2021-09-02T23:17:22","date_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=145622"},"modified":"2021-09-02T23:17:47","modified_gmt":"2021-09-03T04:17:47","slug":"veterans-celebrated-on-day-3-of-vw-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/09\/02\/veterans-celebrated-on-day-3-of-vw-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Veterans celebrated on Day 3 of VW Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>DAVE MOSIER\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thursday was Veterans Day at the Van Wert County Fair and all eligible area military veterans earned free admission to the fair until 4 p.m. Veterans were also treated to a meal catered by Gibson\u2019s Barnyard BBQ, could watch the harness racing in front of the grandstand, and also were served ham and bean soup and cornbread later in the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other activities on Thursday included a Tug A Truck competition in front of the Grandstand and lots of free entertainment at various venues around the fairgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Friday at the fair will include the Senior Fair Horse Show and Junior Fair Pleasure Horse Show, both starting at 9 a.m. in the Senior Horse Arena, while the Junior Fair Poultry Show also starts at 9 that morning in the Sheep Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Two other Junior Fair livestock shows are scheduled for Friday: the Goat Show at 2 p.m. in the Farm Focus Arena and the Rabbit Show at 4 p.m. in the Rabbit Barn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At 7 p.m., Junior Fair exhibitors will compete to see which of them is the top livestock showman when the Invitational Showman of Showmen competition is held in the Farm Focus Arena.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition to harness racing, there will be an OSTPA Truck and Tractor Pull in front of the Grandstand, starting at 6:30 p.m. Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A Fifth Quarter event will be held in conjunction with Friday football games for youngsters ages 12-18 at the Landing at Gate 2, starting at 9 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other Friday entertainment includes the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>A disc jockey will play music in the Entertainment Tent, starting at 9 p.m.<\/li><li>Gospel music will be on tap at the Music Pavilion, where local group Trinity will perform at 6 p.m., with Jeff and Sheri Easter following at 7 Friday evening.<\/li><li>The Education Tent will feature several shows of Whiz Bang and Blooms throughout the day. Whiz Bang shows will run at 1, 3, and 5 p.m., while Blooms shows will be held at 2, 4, 6, and 8 p.m.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"387\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-VW-Fair-Day-3-collage.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-145623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-VW-Fair-Day-3-collage.jpg 580w, https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/2021-VW-Fair-Day-3-collage-550x367.jpg 550w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><figcaption>Here is a collage of fair faces and activities from Day 3 of the 2021 Van Wert County Fair. <em>photos by Bob Barnes\/Van Wert independent<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DAVE MOSIER\/independent editor Thursday was Veterans Day at the Van Wert County Fair and all eligible area military veterans earned free admission to the fair until 4 p.m. Veterans were also treated to a meal catered by Gibson\u2019s Barnyard BBQ, could watch the harness racing in front of the grandstand, and also were served ham [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 18:36:07","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145622\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}