This online Entry Guide was designed to make it easy to use. People with
high-speed internet connections can download the entire
Entry Guide, and now everyone can go to the section of the
guide that they're interested in to read or download only
those pages.
All information is in PDF form.
Entries this year include:
• Homemade Wine and Wine Labels (computer designed or hand drawn) You don’t have to make wine or even drink wine to enter your label!
• A Special Award to the Eldest senior citizen winning a blue ribbon in Clothing & Textiles.
• Adult Fine Arts - Scenes of El Dorado County (Open to professional and non-professional artists) 1st place $25
• Baking & Confections - From Grandma’s Kitchen Cookie Jar to Fiery Fare (Baked goods made with chili peppers & other hot spices)
• Computers - Websites and computer art (Who out there has Photoshop Elements?)
• Floriculture – all kinds of potted plants, flower arrangements (fresh, dried or silk) and more
• Handicrafts from egg decorating to decorating a shoe, from scrap booking to painting rocks and (if you can belive it) More!
• Minerals & Mining - Lapidary & Jewelry (I love jewelry - my family laughs - I love rocks more!)
• Photography - From the Magic of the Fair to Manipulated prints
• Photo Collage – 3 or more images in one print, with or without text
• Student Entries Most all the adult entries plus Industrial Art - drafting to furniture construction, electronics construction to welding fabrication, Woodworking, Literary Arts - short stories to poetry
• 4-H, Grange & FFA Departments – Livestock including dog care and training
• Fun cash awards sponsored by many generous groups from salsa to apple butter, from hand appliquéd quilts to people’s choice photo
Home Gardener - Judge’s Choice Award $20 Cash Award Sponsored by: EL DORADO COUNTY FARM TRAILS
Paul Pecota Memorial Salsa Award - $25 Cash Award Sponsored by: MASTER FOOD PRESERVERS
Gloria Herbert Mustard Award - $25 Cash Award Sponsored by: MASTER FOOD PRESERVERS
Apple Hill® Growers Association Apple Butter Award - $25 Cash Award Sponsored by: APPLE HILL® GROWERS ASSOCIATION
El Dorado County Grape Growers Wine Jelly Award - $25 Cash Award Sponsored by: EL DORADO COUNTY GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION
El Dorado County Grape Growers Canned Grape Product Award - $25 Cash Award Sponsored by: EL DORADO COUNTY GRAPE GROWERS ASSOCIATION
Best Hand Quilted Quilt $25 Cash Award + ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD BUG QUILTERS
Best Hand Appliquéd Quilt $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD BUG QUILTERS
Best Pieced Quilt $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD BUG QUILTERS
Best Quilt, Wall Hanging (not to exceed 59”x85”) $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD NUGGET QUILTERS
Best Machine Quilted $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD BUG QUILTERS
Best Use of Color $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: HIGH SIERRA QUILTERS
Judge’s Choice Award $25 Cash Award+ ribbon Sponsored by: GOLD NUGGET QUILTERS
Best Knitted or Crocheted Item Ribbon & $25 Gift Certificate Sponsored b yLOFTY LOU'S
Photography People’s Choice Award - $25 Sponsored by EL DORADO CAMERA CLUB
At the Fair
• E-photos - Capture the fun of the 2009 Fair with your digital camera or phone – can register and pay $1 day of event.
• Plein Air Painting – must register in advance. Great prizes with at least 5 participants.
AND MORE!
Really.... Check it out.
Livestock Liability Release Form (PDF)
Entire Fair Entry Guide (4.06 MB, 116 pages)
Introduction
and Table of Contents
State
and Local Officials and Letter from Governor Schwarzenegger
Fair
Association Board of Directors, Staff, and 2007 County
Fair Royalty
2009
Fair Highlights
2009
Fair Hours and Prices
2009
Friends of Fair Sponsors and How to Become a Friend
of the Fair
How
to Enter the Fair in 3 easy steps
Entry Forms
Local
Rules and Regulations and Fire Regulations
Tentative
Judging Schedule
El
Dorado County Fair Idol
Farm Sience-Horiculture
Art
Plein Air
Painting Contest form
Baking
& Confections
Clothing
& Textiles
Computers
Cultural
Dance
Dairy
Goat Products
Floriculture
Handicrafts
Industrial Art
(Grades 7+)
Literary
Arts
Livestock
Minerals & Mining
Photography
Preserved
Foods
Quilts
Tablesettings
Wine Competition Commercial (for more info see commercial wine page)
Wine Competition Homemade
Wool
4H/FFA/Youth
Clubs - Livestock
4H
& FFA Horse Show and Mother Lode Horse Show
Map
At the 1862 Fair, among exhibits and entertainment advertised as reasons to go to the County Fair were a brass band from Sacramento, a 16-pound lump of solid gold, hand carved rosewood furniture, handmade silverware, fine gold jewelry, Grecian paintings, an 86-pound squash, plus grapes, apples, and whiskey pickles.
In 1863, the Premium Book (also known as the Entry Guide) was printed in the Mountain Democrat.
Just as we have seen in today’s fairs, timing of the Fair precludes some varieties of produce from being at their optimal point of harvest. Some produce comes early in the year, while others are later. With El Dorado County covering elevations from 500’ to 7000’ our growing seasons are widely varied. A new class of Green Fruit and Vegetables in 1892 allowed produce in all stages of production to be entered to showcase the broad variety of consumables grown in the county.
Prisoners win blue ribbons... So can you!
United Press
Published: March 2, 2009 at 8:26 PM
SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif., March 2 (UPI) -- Officials overseeing the culinary arts program at California's El Dorado County jail said 36 prisoners have so far completed the cooking classes.
The program, which the 158-bed jail and Lake Tahoe Community College have operated since 2007, has resulted in baked goods that won 20 ribbons and one "best of show" at the El Dorado County Fair, The Sacramento Bee reported Monday.
Sheriff's Lt. Randy Peshon, commander of the jail, said the program -- which bears the unofficial motto: "So good, it's a crime" -- is aimed at helping prisoners find employment after they are released.
"We want to put a floor under these people when they get out," Peshon said.
Officials said the classes, which include certification courses in food safety and college credit courses, have led to several former students finding employment or continuing their education on the outside.
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