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<p>LEHMAN TWP. &#8212; Michelle Vinnacombe carefully scanned through winning artwork hung on the walls of an exhibit building, searching for her two daughters&#8217; entrees at opening night of the Luzerne County Fair.</p><p>&#8220;We have entered their artwork the last two or three years,&#8221; Vinnacombe, of Dallas, said.</p><p>The 54th annual Luzerne County Fair, located on Route 118 in Lehman Township, opened its gates at 4 p.m. Wednesday. The fair will run through Sunday.</p><p>Vinnacombe and her family were some of the early guests who came to scope out the exhibits and attractions before the crowds formed.</p><p>&#8220;The kids love the rides and the food,&#8221; she said.</p><p>Fair admission is $10. Children who are 2 years old and younger are admitted free. On Thursday, the entry fee for senior citizens is $5. Sunday is Family Fun Day where children ages 3 to 12 will be admitted for $6.</p><p>Numerous carnival rides offer a variety of thrills for guests, including a challenge to see how long fairgoers can stay on &#8220;Slinger,&#8221; a mechanical bull.</p><p>Outside the bullring, a white dry-erase board charts the time records achieved.</p><p>&#8220;The person who breaks a record gets a free t-shirt,&#8221; Charlie Mugler, a part-owner of Raging Bull Enterprises said. &#8220;I had one person break a record already.&#8221;</p><p>The time records are constantly changing, he said.</p><p>Lauren Gittens, 18, and her friend Madison Everetts, 20, both of Wilkes-Barre, said temptation of fair food is what brought them out to the fair.</p><p>The duo had a tough decision with offerings such as potato pancakes, fried cheese balls and cheeseburger balls, roasted sweet corn and pulled pork to tempt them. And if that wasn&#8217;t enough exotic menu items such as elk burgers, frog legs, gator bites and venison tenderloin were available.</p><p>&#8220;I like the roasted sweet corn,&#8221; Gittens said.</p><p>Gittens and Everetts said they are not attracted to the rides, but enjoy seeing all the animals.</p><p>In the small animal barn, two calves named Oscar and Brownie nestled in hay, while around them ornate roosters strutted and swine and a pen of pot-belly piglets sauntered.</p><p>Activity in the horse barn was constant as caretakers cleaned and decorated the stalls.</p><p>Several games of chance were available for fairgoers, but Lee Estep, the chairwoman of the fair&#8217;s Basket Raffle Committee, enticed guests to visit her tent with a 50/50 and basket raffle.</p><p>Estep said the raffles are a fundraiser for the Luzerne County Fair.</p><p>Proceeds from the raffle and 50/50 ticket sales will be used to install flushing toilets for 2017 fair, she said.</p><p>&#8220;The (public bathroom) building is almost finished being built,&#8221; Estep said.</p><p>Portable toilets are brought in for fairgoers, she said.</p><style>
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<div class="metaInfo"><subheadMeta>Annual event opens in Lehman Twp.</subheadMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Eileen Godin</p><p>egodin@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><factboxMeta><p><strong>54th Luzerne County Fair</strong></p><p><strong>Hours: </strong>Thursday: 4-11 p.m.</p><p>Friday: 4-11:30 p.m.</p><p>Saturday: 11 a.m. - 11:30 p.m.</p><p>Sunday: 11 a.m. - 9:30 p.m.</p><p><strong>Where:</strong> Luzerne County Fair, Route 118, Lehman Twp.</p><p><strong>Admission:</strong> $10 per person, children 2 are admitted for free.</p><p>Visit luzernecountyfair.com for more information.</p></factboxMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Eileen Godin at 570-991-6387 or on Twitter @TLNews.</p></shirttailMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><videoMeta><p><table class="mceItemTable" style="border:none;width:98%;"><tbody><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoID:</td><td id="videoid" style="width:50em;font-size:90%;">Y0mKKGI4yfU</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">VideoType:</td><td id="videotype" style="font-size:90%;">YOUTUBE</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">URL:</td><td id="url" style="font-size:90%;">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0mKKGI4yfU</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Embed String:</td><td id="videoembedstring" style="font-size:90%;">&lt;iframe width=&#8221;560&#8221; height=&#8221;315&#8221; src=&#8221;https://www.youtube.com/embed/Y0mKKGI4yfU&#8221; frameborder=&#8221;0&#8221; allowfullscreen&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Caption:</td><td id="videocaption" style="font-size:90%;">54th Annual Luzerne County Fair</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Credit:</td><td id="videocredit" style="font-size:90%;">Aimee Dilger and Sean McKeag</td></tr><tr><td style="font-weight:bold;font-size:100%;vertical-align:top;text-align:right;border:none;">Video Position:</td><td id="videoposition" style="font-size:90%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table></p><p style="margin-top:10px;font-size:70%;color:#555;">(use the &#8220;for files&#8230;&#8221; link above to associate attached files with this source)</p></videoMeta></div>

Opening day of the Luzerne County Fair has much to offer