Winner picked in fair contest

Fair season is coming up, and the theme for this year's festivities will be "Where the fun starts the Great Northern Fair."

The winning theme was picked May 20 by the Great Northern Fair Board. The theme will be printed on all posters, fliers and the promotional premium book touting the arrival of the 79th annual event.

The contest winner, Danika Patterson, a sixth-grader at St. Jude Thaddeus School, said she isn't sure how she thought of the slogan.

"It just kinda popped into my head," she said.

Danika learned about the contest from her teacher, Alma Seidel, who encouraged her students to par...