MUSICIANS, PIGS TO HAM IT UP AT FAIR.Byline: Daily News LAKE VIEW TERRACE - The San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. Fair, to begin Thursday at the Hansen Dam Hansen Dam in Los Angeles County, California was built by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District in 1939 and 1940. The project is located near the northern edge of the San Fernando Valley on Tujunga Wash, about one mile below the confluence of the Big Tujunga Wash Sports Center, will feature a carnival and a variety of entertainers and animals, including the popular racing pigs. ``It's wonderful,'' said Rita Colette, who has attended the fair at Hansen Dam each year for nearly a decade and plans to take her grandchildren to the 2002 edition. ``I like everything about that fair. It's close, it's local, it's fun, and it's wholesome,'' Colette said. She said the animals are what she likes best about the fair. She has some sheep, chickens, ducks and geese on her own home property near Hansen Dam. The fair will run from Thursday through Sunday at the Hansen Dam Sports Center, 11770 1/2 Foothill Blvd., Lake View Terrace, and officials expect tens of thousands of visitors. ``Last year we had 23,000 visitors to the fair over the four-day period, and we're hoping we will bring in bigger crowds this year,'' said Pam Holland, a spokeswoman for the event. ``This is the 56th annual San Fernando Valley Fair.'' The fair will be open from 4 to 11 p.m. Thursday - Dollar Day, with a general admission price of $1 and free admission for children 11 and younger, military veterans and adults 55 and older. Hours will be from 2 p.m. to midnight on Friday and from noon to midnight Saturday and Sunday. Except on Dollar Day, admission will cost $4 for senior citizens, $6 for other adults and $4 for children 6-11. Children 5 and younger get in free every day. Musical performances will take place on two stages. Friday evening's featured act will be War, a rhythm and blues rhythm and blues (R&B) Any of several closely related musical styles developed by African American artists. The various styles were based on a mingling of European influences with jazz rhythms and tonal inflections, particularly syncopation and the flatted blues chords. , rock 'n' roll rock 'n' roll: see rock music. band. Country and western artist Aaron Tippin Aaron Tippin (born July 3, 1958) is an American country music singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional bodybuilder. Starting with the single "You've Got to Stand for Something" in 1991, he has charted nine Top Ten singles on the U.S. will sing Saturday evening, and Mariachi Sol de Mexico de Jose Hernandez Jose Hernandez can refer to
Home arts, photography, fine arts, antique farm equipment and reptiles reptiles terrestrial or aquatic vertebrates which breathe air through lungs and have a skin covering of horny scales. They are poikilothermic, oviparous or ovoviviparous, and, if they have legs they are short and constructed solely for crawling. will be among subjects of the wide range of displays. A junior livestock auction will be held at noon Sunday. For more information telephone (818) 557-1600. IF YOU GO The San Fernando Valley Fair will run Thursday through Sunday at the Hansen Dam Sports Center, 11770 1/2 Foothill Blvd., Lake View Terrace. For information, call (818) 557-1600. CAPTION(S): box Box: IF YOU GO (see text) |
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