Tuesday, January 25, 2022 (10:44 am)

OC Fair & Event Center earns Western Fairs Association honors

Western Fairs Association honored  OC Fair & Event Center with 19 Achievement Awards at its annual convention in Reno this month.

First-place awards included the new fair exhibit, California Fresh, and new children’s program for the OC Fair’s Experience the Great Outdoors exhibit. Other honors included the fair theme – Time for Fun – the fair logo, fair TV commercial, Junior Livestock Auction and several first-place photography awards. OCFEC also received second-place honors for agricultural programming. 

Western Fairs Association is a trade group supporting the fair and festival industry.

OC Fair & Event Center earned the following awards:

Single Television Ad

1st Award and Judges’ Choice 

Fair Logo

1st Award

Year-Round Logo

1st Award

Special Event Logo

1st Award and Judges’ Choice 

Virtual & Live Auctions

1st Award for pre-Fair Junior Livestock Auction

Agricultural Programming

2nd Award for Centennial Farm’s partnership with Don Knipp, a.k.a. “Mr. Fertilizer,” and La Verne Nursery during the 2021 OC Fair

Theme Program

1st Award and Judges’ Choice for Time For Fun and its  programming during the 2021 OC Fair

New Fairtime Exhibit 

1st Award for California Fresh: Celebrating the Bounty Of Our Counties

New Children’s Program

1st Award and Judges’ Choice for Explore the Great Outdoors

Give It Your Best Shot: Animals

Two 1st Awards

Give It Your Best Shot: Carnival

Two 1st Awards, Award of Excellence – Overall Best Photo, and Award of Excellence – Third Best Overall Photo

Give It Your Best Shot: Exhibits

1st Award and 2nd Award

Give It Your Best Shot: Entertainment

1st Award and 2nd Award

Give It Your Best Shot: People at the Fair

1st Award and 2nd Award