Your weekend planner

Today
Partly cloudy. High of 95. Winds less than 5 mph.

Schedule for the Bates County Fair:

7:00 a.m. Complimentary Breakfast by Country Mart of Butler
8:00 a.m. Junior Swine Show
Following Swine show
Round Robin Showmanship
Contest
5:00 p.m. Bates Co. Fair Board Steak & Chop Dinner
7:00 p.m. Awards
7:30 p.m. Junior Livestock Sale
Exhibitors are responsible for getting animals
to locker.

Friday
Mostly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain in the morning, then partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 93. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Schedule for the Bates County Fair:

9:00-noon Check out 4-H exhibits
7:30 p.m. Purt Near Anything Goes

Saturday
Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and a chance of rain. High of 93. Winds less than 5 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Schedule for the Bates County Fair:

9:00 a.m. Ultimate Horseman Challenge

10:00 a.m. Junior & Open Dairy Cattle Show
6:00 p.m. 40th Fair Anniversary
Appreciation Dinner (no charge)
7:00 p.m. Mini Rod Pull
Coronation of Bates County Queen & Princess during intermission

Butler Youth Basketball will be selling pulled pork sandwiches in the O'Reilly parking lot in Butler 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Appleton City Car, Truck, Tractor and motorcycle show 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the city park
Celebrity Donkey Races at Montrose baseball field 7 p.m.

Sunday
Partly cloudy with a chance of a thunderstorm and rain. High of 102 with a heat index of 115. Winds from the SW at 5 to 10 mph. Chance of rain 20%.

Schedule for the Bates County Fair:

8:15 a.m. Church Service
9:00 a.m. Open Horse Show
10:00 a.m. Draft Horse & Mule show will run
through Monday evening.
Old Fashioned Fair Games every night sponsored by local organizations and businesses.

Double Branch Church VBS begins- for into call 417-395-2888

If you would like something added to the calendar, send an email to bateswire@hotmail.com