It’s Gila County Fair’s 50th birthday, and in celebration, this year’s fair promises to be the biggest show ever. Exciting new events have been added to the lineup, including a Ranch Rodeo, World Series Roping, Trailer Team Roping and a BMX exhibition—plus a Fear Factor and wildlife encounter. A horse …
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Paraphrasing the lyrics of a Broadway show tune from a bygone era, our county fair is a great county fair. It’s the best county fair in our state. And well it should be, considering the the Gila County Fair is entering its 50th year. The first fair was held in …
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GILA COUNTY- As part of its continued support of the Gila County Fair, the Gila County Board of Supervisors gave $10,000 to the fair this week. The 2017 Gila County Fair will be September 21-24 at the Gila County Fairgrounds in Globe. Pictured left to right are District 2 Supervisor Tim R. Humphrey, …
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Darrel Stubbs, a long-time participant in the All American Cookoff at the Gila County Fair, explains the first order of business on competition day: “one guy smoking gets out there in the morning and fixes everyone breakfast and gets the smokers going.” Even for folks like Stubbs who have been …
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It is mid-September and time for the Gila County Fair. The fair has been around these parts since the 1970’s. Then it was started with and old bandstand, some wooden horse corals and a make shift race track. For a printable schedule of this years events “click here.” For directions, “click …
Read More »Globe Miami Times had the pleasure of attending all three days of the Gila County Fair this year! Below are our photos from Saturday night, which included the well-attended Demolition Derby! (Be sure to click both pages one and two below in order to view the entire photo series.) Winners …
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