Fair & Rodeo

Perhaps the most haunting weekend of the entire COVID-19 shutdown was Labor Day weekend 2020.

No kids and cows. No cotton candy, hand-dipped corndogs or elephant ears. No cowboys and cowgirls. No bucking bulls. No Tilt-a-whirls or jugglers on stilts. No traffi c. No $10 parking spots in someone’s front yard.

In other words, nothing of what we typically expect over Labor Day weekend.

There will never (hopefully) be another Labor Day weekend like the one endured in 2020.

This year the summer calendar ones again comes to a close with the most anticipated weekend of the year.

The Kittitas County Fair is back. The Ellensburg Rodeo is back. The people who enjoy both these events will be back as well.

On these two pages are photographic reminders of what to expect. u