The 71st Lee Regional Fair will kick off this coming Monday, Oct. 6, with marching bands, thrilling rides, good food, and neon lights illuminating the night sky.
The Sanford Lions Club sponsors this week-long feast of family fun and your attendance helps support the many charitable projects undertaken by Lions.
But not all the fun will be taking place on the midway. Exhibit halls and the Lions Pavilion (arena and barn areas) will be filled with the products of skilled hands and farm animals. Next to the N.C. State Fair, this is the region’s largest agricultural fair and thanks to the state’s Extension Service and its local staff, folks from Lee, Harnett, Moore and Chatham counties will share their ways of life with one another.
Speaking at the Lions meeting this past Thursday, Sept. 25, were Fair Director Ronnie Turner and County Extension Director Susan C. Condlin. Also present were many members of the Fair Advisory Committee who have expertise in various areas of the event, especially agriculture. Many of them also serve as volunteers at the fair.
The annual fall fair is the Sanford Lions’ foremost fundraiser of the year. Lions help local citizens who are blind or sight impaired as well as the hearing impaired. Many programs helping needy youth are also supported locally and statewide. Local Lions clubs help fund national and international projects that mean millions of dollars for medical research and aid directly to the needy. Your support of the Lee Regional Fair and other fundraising efforts by Lions is greatly appreciated.
Registration for exhibits and livestock starts this weekend starting with exhibits on Saturday from 2-6 p.m. This continues Sunday from 1-5 p.m. and includes livestock and game birds. On Monday morning, judging of exhibits and broilers takes place. That is followed at 4:30 p.m. when the gates open with youth tractor and truck driving registration. At 4:45 p.m. official opening ceremonies begin with a parade featuring bands from both Lee County High School and Southern Lee High School culminating in the ribbon-cutting at 5 p.m. at the main gates at the exhibition halls.
Some highlights of the week include the cheerleading exhibition Monday night, Tiny Miss and Little Miss pageants on Tuesday evening, the Junior Miss and Miss Lee Regional Fair Pageants on Wednesday plus the livestock show and poultry auctions, followed Thursday morning by preschool student story times and free rides for kids and at night a demolition derby. Friday night will bring a talent contest. There will be much more free entertainment throughout the week.
The fair’s last day on Saturday will see gates opening at noon with many activities for children ranging from a diaper derby to a 4-H dog show and animal extravaganza. Also a lawn mower pull as well as an antique tractor pull, motorcycle races, homemade ice cream churn-off and even an Elvis impersonator.
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