Friday 4 September
Presented by: AARP Alaska
YOUNG AT HEART Day
Come and join AARP Alaska’s Mat-Su Community Action Volunteer Team for an exciting day at the Alaska State Fair! We’re celebrating the 90th anniversary of the signing of the Social Security Act. Enjoy playing Plinko for a chance to win prizes, and if you’re 18 or older, you might even win a baseball or bat signed by the MatSu Miners! It’s all about cabbage today! Will they break a world or state record? Witness the spectacle of the 29th Annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off presented by Alaska Division of Agriculture and Alaska Grown in the Craig Taylor Farm Exhibit building, where the heaviest cabbage takes home the prize and maybe a world record. Check out the archery show with Sara Twister at the Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage and Purple Plaza as she combines amazing contortionist moves with precision archery. Explore the future at the Mat-Su Technical Education Showcase in the Event Hall. Feel the adrenaline rush at the Demo Derby in the MTA Grandstands, where powerful machines clash in a thrilling display of force presented by True North Recovery.
| Event | Venue | |
|---|---|---|
| Birch Tree Tapping | View | |
| Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel | Alaska News Source Corral | View |
| Scott's Future of Magic | Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage | View |
| Tim Hall | Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage | View |
| Thunderbird Ukulele | Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage | View |
| Alaska Coral & Fish | Around the Grounds | View |
| Patriot Ranger | Around the Grounds | View |
| Twisted Sister featuring Sabastian Bach | ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre | View |
| GCI Petting Zoo | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| Fair Feathered Friends | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| Max Sherrod Junior Cabbage Grower’s Award | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| 30th Annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| Cabbage Limerick Contest | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| 4-H Large Livestock Showmanship | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| Sudsy's Barn | Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits | View |
| Cretaceous Kingdom | Don Sheldon Events Center | View |
| MSBSD Career and Technical Education Showcase | Event Hall | View |
| Alaska Balloon Bandits | France Equestrian Center | View |
| Trio 25 | Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage | View |
| Aaron Radatz | Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage | View |
| Book Marks | Hoskins Exhibits | View |
| Making Sauerkraut | Hoskins Exhibits | View |
| Cold Pork Cabbage Sandwiches | Hoskins Exhibits | View |
| Ceramics/Pottery Demonstration | Hoskins Exhibits | View |
| Quilting, Sewing, Handwork & Needlework, Ceramics & Pottery, Fiber & Fleece, and Creative Art with Woodworking | Irwin Exhibits | View |
| People’s Choice Club Photo Contest | June Tull 4-H Building | View |
| 4-H Exhibits & Cooperative Extension Resources | June Tull 4-H Building | View |
| Goat Milking Demo with Kaichen McRae | Milking Parlor in the Farm Exhibits | View |
| Cow Milking Demo with Kerri Stoltenberg | Milking Parlor in the Farm Exhibits | View |
| Pirates for Hire | MTA Grandstand | View |
| Demolition Derby | MTA Grandstand | View |
| Magic by Robbie | Multiple Venues | View |
| Mark Brown & the Blues Crew | Multiple Venues | View |
| Good Times | Multiple Venues | View |
| Lisa Good & Friends | Multiple Venues | View |
| Big Tim & Tall Order | Multiple Venues | View |
| Da Good Ol' Good Ones | Multiple Venues | View |
| Nothin' But Trouble | Multiple Venues | View |
| Rye, the STRA | Multiple Venues | View |
| Sweet Pow | Multiple Venues | View |
| Shot Time | Multiple Venues | View |
| Glacier Blues Band | Multiple Venues | View |
| Scott Helle | Multiple Venues | View |
| Marc Brown and the Blues Crew | Multiple Venues | View |
| Junosmile | Multiple Venues | View |
| Brad's World Reptiles & Glow Zone | MVFCU Kid Zone | View |
| King BMX Stunt Show | Purple Plaza | View |
| Tina Scheer's Lumberjack Show | SBS Woodlot & Stage | View |
| KonneXion | Sluicebox | View |
| Nervis Rex | Sluicebox | View |
| Nick Hanson | The Gathering Place | View |
| Naa Luudisk Gwaii Yatx'i | The Gathering Place | View |
| Chickaloonies | The Gathering Place | View |
| Alaska Native Youth Olympics with Bernard Clark & Nick Hanson | The Gathering Place | View |
| Marc Brown | The Watering Hole | View |
| Voyage of the Alaska Union | Wineck Barn | View |
| Senior Joke & Story Telling | Wineck Barn | View |