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There are several brand new and potentially very fun contests for the 2011 Scott County Free Fair. Maybe you can find a new talent?! Try one out!

2011 Fair Specialty Contests

Go Green Bags Contest

Go Green Bags may be any shape, size, color, or material. They can be sewn, crocheted, knitted, quilted, recycled, etc. The only limit is your imagination. Anyone may enter. Entrants may enter no more than three bags. There will be two division:, Junior is for ages up to 12 years old, and Senior is for persons 13 and older. Contest is sponsored by the Scott City Quilt Guild. Please call Mildred Dearden at 872-2814 or email her at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Zucchini Contest

(The decorated vegetable contest has become a class in the gardening division.)

Grow the biggest zucchini in Scott County and WIN! Let them grow and grow and grow!!! Both weight and length will be considered! Entrants may enter more than one item and prizes will be awarded.

Round Hay Bale Contest.

Bales will be provided, so please call the Extension Office (872.2930) to reserve your bale. Prizes will be awarded. A complete list of rules will be available at the Scott County Extension Office. Use your imagination!

Duct Tape Contest

Class A. Wearable item. Class B. Create your own. Only one item per class per exhibitor. Items can be made with any color of duct tape and it must be created using a minimum of 90% duct tape. Prizes will be given. Scott County Free Fair reserves the right to disqualify any entry that does not represent a family friendly entry.

Photo Contest

“Month by Month in Scott County” for the community 2012 calendar is the theme for this year's contest. The theme for the contest may be interpreted in many ways; please show Scott County in ACTION, especially our annual events! The contest will be judged during the Scott County Free Fair. Pictures must be taken within the boundaries of Scott County. Pictures are to be no larger than 4”x6” and no smaller than 3 1/2” x 5”. They must be labeled with the location where they were taken. Entries must be the original work of the exhibitor and must have been taken since the last county fair. Winning entries will be made into a 2012 Scott County Calendar. A photo release will be required from each individual entering the contest. Officials reserve the right to use the winning entries at their discretion. For questions contact Deb Scheuerman at 872-2031.

Cupcake Contest

No limit on the number of entries per person. Use your imagination and create your cupcake masterpiece. Age divisions will be split depending upon the number of participants. Creations may consist of one or more cupcakes. An additional single cupcake must be provided in order for the judge to taste the entry. All entries will be left on display until release time on Saturday,July 23rd. Cupcakes do not have to be from scratch. Entries must be made by the entrant. All entries will be awarded ribbon and premium money.

Scott County Market Wheat Show

Wheat samples will be collected at the Scott County elevators during harvest. Individuals may also bring a three pound sample directly to the Scott County Extension Office by July 12th. Please include your name and wheat variety on the sample. The wheat samples will be on display during the fair in the crops exhibit building.

Synopsis of the Performance

Synopsis of "The Road to Redemption":

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God and the Word was God.

Scene 1: The prophecy

Scene II: The Christmas story

Scene III: Christ in the Temple at the age of twelve.

Scene IV: The Sermon on the Mount.

Scene V: Jesus and the Children

Scene VI: The healing of the lepers.

Scene VII: The Triumphal Entry

Scene VIII: The Cleansing of the Temple

Scene IX: The Bargain of Judas Iscariot

Scene X: Signs of the End of the Age

Scene XI: The Lord's Supper

Scene XII: The Garden of Gethsemane

Scene XIII: Peter's Denials

Scene XIV: The Death of Judas

Scene XV: Christ Before Pilate

Scene XVI: The March to Calvary

Scene XVII: The Crucifixion

Scene XVIII: The Burial

Scene XIX: The Resurrection

History of "The Road to Redemption"

The Scott County Easter Pageant, "The Road to Redemption", began in 1971 at a location two miles north of the present site in Scott Lake State Park. With a borrowed script, costumes, and lights from the Antioch Methodist Church in Buttermilk, Kansas, the first pageant was presented. People in Scott County loaned lights, electrical cords, animals and equipment, in addition to their gifts of time and money to make the pageant possible. The first narration was live, with the light switch box laying on the ground, powered by a borrowed generator. But the production went very well because the people of Scott County had worked hard and given much of themselves, and so God had blessed them abundantly.

The whole idea began one Sunday morning when Gwen Huck's pastor mentioned to her that perhaps some kind of Easter sunrise play could be held on the football field. Larry Huck, her husband, and the high school football coach at the time, said the field would be under construction during Easter, having a new crown put on the field. Gwen knew her father-in-law had a script of a pageant for which he had narrated several years before. She acquired the script, met with the Ministerial Alliance, decided the state park was the best setting and everything was underway. The script has been revised since then, but Scott County will always be grateful to the people of the Antioch Methodist Church in Buttermilk, who generously helped the pageant get started. Read more...

2011 Easter Pageant

Scott County's bi-annual Easter Pageant, "The Road to Redemption" is always a greatly anticipated event in the timeline of this community. The pageant will be held Good Friday, April 22. 2011 at approximately 9:00 p.m. in the Scott Lake State Park. The park is located 12 miles north of Scott City on Hwy. 83. There is ample parking with an area reserved for pickups, vans, and motor homes. An area in front of the cars is reserved for those who wish to sit outside on blankets.

The pageant is presented out-of-doors. Wraps are advisable. You will need access to an FM radio because the pageant is broadcast on a short-range FM radio frequency which can be heard only in the pageant area. Music and pageant narration can be heard only on 107.1 FM.

Camp Lakeside will serve a soup supper from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The camp will provide a shuttle from the pageant site to the camp dining hall. Live pre-pageant music, 6:30-8:30 p.m., will be provided by “Harmony”, a women’s trio from Gove, KS, and Jim Mulaney, gospel guitarist and singer from Denver, CO. The pageant is sponsored by the Scott City Ministerial Alliance. A freewill offering is the price of admission for both the soup supper and the pageant.

Camping areas are available in the state park. Ample hotel and motel accommodations are to be found in Scott City, 12 miles south of the park; in Oakley, 34 miles north of the park; Dighton, 24 miles east of Scott City; and Leoti, 25 miles west of Scott City. For further information on the Scott County State Park, call 620-872-2061.

Whimmydiddle

The Whimmydiddle Arts and Crafts Fair comes to Scott City Park on the last Saturday in September. The annual craft event is named after a wooden toy, the whimmydiddle (Read about it: The Whimmydiddle). A gala event held in the open air of Scott City Park, with over 200 exhibitors from across the United States, the Whimmydiddle crafters and artists arrive with original art, metal working, pottery, crafts in wood, fabric, jewelery, silk and dried flowers. A variety of tempting food concessions entice visitors to eat and take somethink yummy home. This is one of the largest craft shows in Western Kansas; an event not to be missed! Applications for booth space are mailed out in early June each year. The hours are from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. in City Park in Scott City, Kansas. Admission is free. A Very Good Thing! Thank you to the Alpha Omega Sorority for making the Whimmydiddle happen.

Read more about it: www.whimmydiddle.org