Grand entrance welcomes visitors to Rock County Fair

Activities at the Rock County Fair are well underway Monday with last-minute preparations and pre-fair judging at the fairgrounds in Luverne. The old stone ticket booth on the fairground’s northwest side received a little sprucing up with a new roof and, beginning on Sunday with the Ahrendt brothers’ telehandler, a new 53-foot square iron tubing trellis joining the ticket booth and its two stone posts together. Retired welder Dean Wenzel spent 60 hours designing and creating the iron structure with this son, Rob. With the help of his son-in-law, Don Luitjens, and ag society member Jim Hatting on Monday, Wenzel put the finishing signage on the structure. The Rock County Fair continues through Saturday night.