Large Labor Day crowd fills the 164th Van Wert County Fair

The Van Wert County Fairgrounds had to make some changes to make sure the Fair took place this year.

And five.

Tonight - the van wert county fair is wrapping up its third and final day.an event that went on as planned for the most part...even with many festivals cancelling because of the pandemic.fox 55's jentill neal tells us about the changes and why people say they couldn't miss it.

3 emily greulech has been counting down with hopes of winning at the van wert county fair this year and she did.> 00:00:31-00:00:39"i won grand champion market lamb and reserve champion market lamb and i was the champion showman."she and others were anticipating the fair since other summer festivities were cancelled because of covid-19.

In order for the event to happen, all senior events were cancelled leaving the junior fair youth for people to support.the van wert county fairgrounds put up sanitization stations throughout the area.> 00:00:54-00:01:12"everything was uncertain.

We didn't know if we were going to be able to show, so i'm very thankful to have the opportunity to be here and to show even though things aren't how they normally are, but they did a really good job orchestrating how the show worked and it went smoothly."the last thing alison and kaylee owens wants is a virtual fair.

00:01:08-00:01:23" i was telling my dad one day that i would be really mad if we had the fair online because i would be like "what do i do now?"

The fair online would have been nuts."the weather wasn't much of a worry for one group.

Beth and kristen rollins, and ginger rahrig say nothing could keep them from family tradition.> 00:02:04-00:02:33"as long as i live in this area, i'll always go to the fair.

It's an annual event.

I grew up with my uncle having race horses at the barn and their would be a picnic on labor day.

Now my family is doing their 4-h projects and other projects they do like sewing.

It's my grandkids now.

As long as there is a van wert county fair, i'll be here."in van wert, jentill neal fox 55 news the van wert county fair will have a virtual livestock auction tomorrow.