Category: On the Road with Big Blue

Join WNZR to support the 2024 Junior Fair Sales

Thursday at the Knox County Fair is always a special day. It is Junior Fair Sale Day!
WNZR’s Marcy Rinehart talked with Jim Blanchard, Sales Committee President about the 2024 Sale Day.
Click HERE to hear their full conversation.

Jim shared a highlight of the day’s schedule, including an earlier start for the Sale of Champions.
He explained the overall process of buying an animal and how you can become a bidder/buyer.
Jim also talked about how the 175th Anniversary of the Fair will be celebrated with a special plate auction.
They shared some outstanding financial stats. The 2022 Sale brought in over $900,00! The 2023 Sale hit the historic record of $1 million dollars!

Make sure to listen to WNZR at 8am on Thursday, 7/25 for our coverage of the 2024 Sale of Champions.
We will also bring your sale results all day on air and online.

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WNZR congratulates 4H Winners at the 2024 Knox County Fair

WNZR had the privilege to feature multiple 4H winners from the 2024 Knox County Fair. These talented young people participated in various projects, including miscellaneous projects.
They stopped by Big Blue to tell us about their experience in 4H, how they worked to present their project and their excitement to represent Knox County at the Ohio State Fair.
Click HERE to listen in as we honor and recognize these amazing young women and men. Congratulations!

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WNZR congratulates the 2024 Junior Fair Queen and her Court

The 175th Knox County Fair hosted a special Opening Ceremony on Sunday, 7/21/24.
The Knox County Junior Fair Queen and her Court were announced.
Congratulations to:
Queen – Reagan Ward
Court – Kennedy Auker, Vivian Noble and Madison Weekly

WNZR’s Joe Rinehart had a chance to talk with these outstanding ladies. Click HERE to hear their conversation.

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WNZR Congratulates the 2024 Little Miss and Mr. Knox County Fair

On Sunday, the Knox County Fair hosted the 32nd annual Little Miss Knox County Fair contest and the 3rd annual Little Mr. Knox County Fair contest.

Congratulations to the 2024 Royalty:
Girls –
2024 Little Miss Knox County Fair/Winner – Natalie Kuhlman
1st runner up – Scarlet Anne Gray
2nd Runner up – Kaylee Conaway
3rd Runner up – Emberly Fowler

Boys –
2024 Little Mr. Knox County Fair/Winner – Judson Durbin
1st runner up – Blaine Doup
2nd Runner up – Dane Allbaugh
3rd runner up – Mason Smith

WNZR’s Joe Rinehart had a chance to talk with the winners. Click HERE to enjoy the fun conversations!

Enjoy the pictures below. You can see a full gallery from Sunday at the Knox County Fair on the WNZR Facebook page – HERE.

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The Morning Thing Friday Favorites – let’s go to the Knox County Fair!

We are so excited to go On the Road with Big Blue to the Knox County Fair!
For our Friday Favorites today, we shared our favorite events at the Fair.
Click HERE to hear from Alyssa, Judah and Marcy.
We hope to see you there. Find Big Blue beside the Junior Fair Booth building, up the hill from the main Fair Board office.
Also, get registered for our amazing prizes at www.wnzr.fm

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The Morning Thing shares highlights of July First Friday

The Morning Thing talked with Lacey Filkins, Executive Director for Experience Mount Vernon about July First Friday.
Click HERE to hear the full conversation.
Lacey shared highlights of the schedule, best parking places, live music, food truck options and many fun family activities.
The event is from 6pm – 9pm in downtown Mount Vernon.
July’s Theme is “Summer Camp”.
The Big Blue Crew will be in downtown Mount Vernon tonight. We hope to see you there!
Click HERE to see a full list of activities and details about WNZR’s “Drink Up, Soak Up and Frame Up” prize basket. We will give this away tonight before 8pm!

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The Food For The Hungry Crew celebrates a day of giving!

On Friday, 12/8, a very large broadcast crew met and worked together to bring the 2023 Food For The Hungry Broadcast to the Knox County community.

We brought in equipment and expertise from several companies, over 25 college students from Mount Vernon Nazarene University, two MVNU professors and a lot of volunteers.

The Knox Memorial and Theater buzzed with excitement as we shared check presentations, total announcements from many events and collections, and handed out 21 Winter Grants to local food initiatives. It was an incredible day!
Our current Food For The Hungry total is $263,502.08 and 11 truckloads of food!
Click HERE to listen to the crew as they share their thoughts after a 7-hour broadcast raising funds and celebrating a giving community.
The drive continues until 12/31 and you can still give at http://www.foodforthehungrycares.org
Last year, the extra donations over the 2022 goal enabled Food For The Hungry to give out $25,000 in Summer Grants to help feed kids over the summer months. Every dollar counts!
Thanks for helping us to live out the mission, “Working Together to Care for Our Neighbors”!

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The Morning Thing Friday Favorites – we LOVE Apples!

For our Friday Favorites, we celebrate the Johnny Appleseed Apple Festival. The Morning Thing hosts share their favorite ways to eat apples.

We hope to see you in downtown Mount Vernon tonight (10/6). Click HERE to see the full list of activities and how you can register to win a Homemade PIE from The Least of These Ministries.

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Blessing Offor is coming to Sonfest 2023 at MVNU

Sonfest is this Saturday (9/16) at Mount Vernon Nazarene University. All this week, The Morning Thing and The Afternoon Drive are featuring conversations with the artists coming to Sonfest this year.

Today, we talked with Blessing Offor. He shares some of his favorites with us including coffee, favorite snack while touring, favorite book and some of his best memories while being on the road. He also talks about some of his favorite artists that have worked with him on some powerful collaborations.

Blessing Offor gives us a preview of Saturday’s show and encourages everyone to come and have fun at Sonfest. He is passionate about creating music for everyone!

We also play Rapid Fire with Blessing Offor and learn what instrument he would like to play and the song he wishes he had written.

Click HERE for more details about Sonfest 2023 and to see the complete schedule.

Click HERE to connect with Blessing Offor.

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