YOUNG AT HEART Day
Friday 29 August
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.
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Matanuska Valley Federal Credit Union presents
Cirque Ma'Ceo |
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Yellow Trail Lawn
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Classic Toys presents
Magic by Robbie |
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Multiple Venues
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Tim Hall |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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Naa Luudisk Gwaii Yatx'i |
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Multiple Venues
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Fireweed Fling |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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Kage Free + Free Birds |
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Multiple Venues
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Chickaloonies |
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The Gathering Place
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Baker |
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Multiple Venues
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Alaska Native Youth Olympics with Bernard Clark |
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The Gathering Place
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Glacier Blues Band |
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Multiple Venues
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Alaska 529 presents
Puppy Pals |
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Alaska News Source Corral
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Outta the House |
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Multiple Venues
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Good Times |
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Multiple Venues
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Alaska Treble Makers |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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All About Dance |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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Jeff Martin |
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Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage
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Sara Twister |
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Multiple Venues
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4-H Large Livestock Showmanship |
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Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits
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Rhubarb, More Than Just Pie |
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Hoskins Exhibits
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MSBSD Career and Technical Education Showcase |
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Event Hall
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Let's Make Soda Pop |
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Hoskins Exhibits
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Nick Hanson, Eskimo Ninja Warrior |
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The Gathering Place
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Gil Rodriguez |
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The Watering Hole
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Making Sauerkraut |
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Hoskins Exhibits
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Lou Nathanson |
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Multiple Venues
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Chocolate Cabbage Leaf Bowls |
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Hoskins Exhibits
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Double Bass |
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The Watering Hole
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VybeSlyce |
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Global Credit Union Bluebonnet Stage
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Lisa Lisa & Those Guys |
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Sluicebox
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Wonder Pax presents
Senior Joke & Story Telling |
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Wineck Barn
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Pipeline Vocal Project |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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Alaska Grown, Alaska Division of Agriculture presents
29th Annual Giant Cabbage Weigh-Off |
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Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits
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True North Recovery presents
Demolition Derby |
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MTA Grandstand
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Alaska Farm Bureau presents
Max Sherrod Junior Cabbage Grower’s Award |
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Craig Taylor Farm Exhibits
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Free Will |
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The Watering Hole
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None presents
Alaska Balloon Bandits Shootout |
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France Equestrian Center
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Pushki Pickers |
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Multiple Venues
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KGOT 101.3 presents
Zedd |
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ConocoPhillips Borealis Theatre
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Yachtly Crew |
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Sluicebox
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America's First Corps Band |
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Alyeska Pipeline Colony Stage
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Nothin' But Trouble |
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Sluicebox
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All events and times subject to change.
