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From left, Tara Pearson, longtime superintendent of the President’s Pie Baking Competition; her daughter Nellie, 14; Tim Flory, president of the Douglas County Fair Board; Pearson’s daughter Paige, 11; and Cheryl Flory slice up remaining pieces from the pie competition on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair. A panel of Douglas County administrators and staff judged pies Friday, with the top three pies getting a final vote from Tim Flory. The third President’s Pie Baking competition of the 2025 fair will take place Saturday.

The Douglas County Fair headed into its final stretch on Friday with pie judging and the beef and bucket calf shows. Saturday is the last day for the fair at the Douglas County Fairgrounds at 19th and Harper streets. See a full schedule of fair events at dgcountyfair.com/.

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Weston Simonson leads his calf during the Level 1 (7-8 year-olds) Bucket Calf show Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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The Beef Show draws a crowd of 4-H Club competitors and spectators on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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From left in foreground, Cooper Marsh and his sister Parris, both Stull Busy Beavers 4-H Club members, and Jasper Clark, of Lone Star 4-H Club, standing at right, help prepare an Angus heifer for competition in the Beef Show on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair. The heifer was to be shown by Jasper’s sister Evelyn Clark.

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Austin Strickland, with the Eudora 4-H Club, carefully shapes the hair on the back of a friend’s Highland purebred in preparation for the Beef Show on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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Morgan Neis, left, celebrates with Lacey Simonson after Neis won in the Level II (9-10 year-old) Bucket Calf Show Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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Jessica Berg, 14, a Lone Star Club member, celebrates after successfully keeping her chickens from escaping their pen as she removed a water bowl on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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Not long after sunrise, Zachary Berg, a Lone Star 4-H Club member, fills up water bowls for his poultry in the Open Pavilion on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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Makenzie Fishburn shows her Angus steer during the 2025 Beef Market show on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.

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A display of 4-H ribbons decorates a family stall in the Open Pavilion on Friday, Aug. 1, at the 2025 Douglas County Fair.