Page 274 Lincoln Daily News 2024 Logan County Fair Jul/Aug 2024 Last event of the Logan County Fair delivers plenty of thrills for demolition derby fans On Sunday evening, the Logan County Fair hosted its last hooray in the form of the annual Demolition Derby in front of the grandstand. This was the only event scheduled for the grandstand this year that actually took place in its desired location. The fair this year was plagued with rain every morning for the first several days. That equaled an over-wet track that made it impossible to host the annual harness races, the tractor pulls and the Wooten Rodeo. All of those events had to be cancelled. The annual Miss Logan County Fair Pageant was moved to the north livestock show arena on Tuesday night as was the annual 4-H scrambles on Wednesday evening. However, the rains did finally stop, and hot weather moved in drying the track out nicely by the end of the fair. On Sunday evening, youngsters in their battery-operated Power Wheels had a perfect nice track for their few minutes of banging and bumping to the delight of the crowd in the grandstand. The event ended with a race for a trophy that was literally larger than the little girl that won it. That would be the last time the audience would see a dry track as the water truck came and pelted down gallons of water to create that mud that everyone loves during a demo derby. The truck would return again during the evening, and by the time the derby got to class number five, the mud was so thick and deep that cars were quickly coated nearly to the point of being unrecognizable and on more than one occasion guests in the grandstand were bombarded with big clods of mud coming up for the rapidly spinning wheels on the cars. Between the Power Wheels and the “grownup” class was the youth compacts. This event features kids who are too young to be driving the streets of Lincoln but are well practiced at driving a bump and crash vehicle. The requirement of this event is that every youngster needs to have a responsible adult in the car with them. The youngsters are much more aggressive in their vehicles than one would imagine. At one point a car was roughly pushed out of the competition area through an opening at the north end. The local fire department engine was on that end, and gathered in that area was a large group of people who were forming a line across the track. Seeing what was happening just seconds in advance, the crowd scattered and fortunately no one was hurt. The announcer issued a warning about getting too close to the competition area, and also asked that the large end loader/tractors on hand be used to block the openings during Continued --
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