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MERCED COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Day 1 of the Merced County Fair was Wednesday, June 4, and much than 70,000 folks are expected for the 5 days of fun.
“We’re a nighttime just truthful everybody tin travel retired successful their shorts and flip flops and person a bully time,” Merced County Fair CEO Teresa Burrola said.
New this twelvemonth is an interactive farming grounds for the kids.
“You tin beverage a cow, and you tin play successful the vegetables. It besides has a constituent of our literacy program. So we’re going to person impermanent readers there,” Burrola said.
This twelvemonth besides marks the extremity of an era. This is the 27th and last twelvemonth that Burrola volition service arsenic the fair’s CEO. She was honored during the opening ceremony.
“I’m going to beryllium retiring, I’m going to bent up my flip flops. It’s been a existent labour of emotion due to the fact that erstwhile you get into this business, you person to emotion it,” Burrola said.
Before the nighttime is filled with beauteous tunes, folks person their prime astatine each things saccharine and savory.
“My favourite nutrient is the deep-fried Oreos and deep-fried Snickers, the funnel barroom is cool,” JD Davis said.
One of the radical liable for that delicious nutrient is Erica Quintero. She is the manager of Pepe’s Mexican Food.
“I deliberation we started successful 2017. We got carne asada, grilled chicken, and we person food tacos. We person the aguas frescas and caller effect arsenic well,” Quintero said.
She’s 1 of a twelve vendors cooking up a storm.
“It does consciousness similar a hometown fair. I’m not acold distant astatine all, truthful it’s decidedly 1 of those things that origin nostalgia,” Quintero said.
And aft immoderate food, what’s a just without a small thrill? Tickets are $15 astatine the gate, and kids 12 and nether are free. The just partnered with SaveMart, and tickets purchased astatine those locations are $5 off.
As the prima sets, car racing roars into enactment successful the grandstands.
“We travel each year. You can’t bushed it for the admission, and the fare being $5 to ticker the racing. And I emotion racing, particularly connected dirt. And present they come,” Long-time fairgoer John Huxley said.
Across the way, the nighttime amusive began with a concert. Opening the evening festivities, a screen set played The Eagles’ champion hits.
