The Fair Returns To West Fargo

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 It’s the day thousands of people have been waiting for, the start of the Red River Valley Fair.
 
It’s a time for cheese curds, fresh lemonade and bacon wrapped corn dogs.
 
A day of rides, food and entertainment.

The Red River Valley Fair is bringing thousands of people onto the fairgrounds here in West Fargo.
 
“It’s a beautiful day here out at the fair. We couldn’t have asked for a better starting day, blue sky, lots of people,” said RRVF General Manager Bryan Schulz.
 
Organizers say they hope attendance hits at least 120,000 over the six day run of the fair.

Isaac Balvitsch and his friends who go to Discovery Middle are taking advantage of what the fair has to offer.
 
“Just walking around, doing some rides, playing some games,” said Balvitsch of Fargo.
 
The fair is bringing people from all over the valley including Addie Steile and her friends.
 
“Just enjoying the weather, nice day coming out and going on the rides and eating some fair food,” said Steile of Detroit Lakes.
 
If you consider yourself competitive like photographer John Hanson and I, you can try out the marines pull up bars, or take a crack at the water gun machines, which I coincidentally both won.
 
“Organizers of the fair say they try to keep some things consistent but they always change things up.”
 
“We try keeping a lot of it the same, but we do our entertainment and our grounds; that’s our big changes. We’ve got from hypnotist comedians over in our Geringhoff building, our free stage at the Acme building,” said Schulz.
 
Admission is $10 for adults and $5 for children, and that gets you into the concerts for free.
And if you just want the food.. you can even get in free from 11 to 1 weekdays through Friday.