The Logan County Fair is returning to Russellville and will offer plenty of rides, food, pageants, livestock shows and automotive events.

Logan County Fair Board President Cody Tatum said the fair was brought back roughly six years ago after the county went more than a decade without one.

“A lot of people we talked to, for lack of a better term, missed the fair,” he said. “They had pleasant memories from their childhood of visiting the fair.”

The fair has grown in popularity and in terms of the number of things that are offered, which required this year’s fair to be stretched out over a full week, Tatum said.

“It’s just the amount of events we have vs. the amount of space we have,” he said.

The fair, which will be at the Logan County Cooperative Extension Campus at 252 John Paul Ave., begins Saturday with the Little Mr. & Mrs. Pageant at 10 a.m. and the Teen Pageant at 5 p.m., according to a schedule posted on the Logan County KY Fair page on Facebook. Leann Martin, a Logan County extension agent, said the cost of admission for the pageants is $5.

There are no festivities June 23.

The fair continues June 24 and runs until June 29.

Events June 24 include a beauty pageant at 5 p.m. and livestock shows throughout the day, starting with the dairy show at 10 a.m. and concluding with the hog show at 6:30 p.m., the posted schedule said.

The livestock shows are free to attend, Martin said.

Carnival rides will open at 5 p.m. June 25-27 and 3 p.m. June 28-29. Admission to the fair is $10 on June 25-27 and $15 on June 28-29.

The fair promises a number of other events like a special-needs pageant June 25, a truck tug of war June 28 and a demolition derby June 29, Martin said.

Additionally, there will be helicopter rides for $25 a person June 25-29, she said.

Martin said rain fell during most of the 2018 fair. “We still had a little over 8,000 people, which for a community our size is huge,” she said.

Martin said the community has taken to the fair so favorably because it provides family fun that should be affordable for just about everyone.

“It is one week that’s cram-packed with family fun, and it’s affordable family fun,” she said.

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