Sunday is Day 11 at the Minnesota State Fair!
Don't miss Esme Murphy's live interview with Gov. Tim Walz, which is happening during the 10:30 a.m. newscast as well as live at WCCO's State Fair booth.
See live native fish swimming in the outdoor pond and learn more about them from DNR fishing educators and volunteers. Fish talks are 9:45 a.m. – 10:00 p.m., 10:45 a.m. – 11:00 a.m., 11:45 a.m. – 12:00 p.m., 12:45 p.m. – 1:00 p.m., 1:45 p.m. – 2:00 p.m., 2:45 p.m. – 3:00 p.m., 3:45 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.
A number of Sunday services are also being held at various places on the fairgrounds.
Click here to see the entire daily guide from the state fair for Sunday, Sept. 3.
Music At The Fair
It's all about local talent Sunday evening at the Grandstand. This extra-special evening brings together the 26 nightly first-place winners from 10 days of competition at the Leinie Lodge Bandshell, and it's the 50th annual such event. The show is free to the public and starts at 7:30 p.m.
Ice companies work overtime at Minnesota State Fair amid extreme heat
Gov. Walz, Rep. Lisa Demuth talk politics at State Fair
As is Esme Murphy's WCCO Sunday Morning tradition, we were talking politics on the set at our WCCO State Fair booth.
Gov. Tim Walz was on hand to chat about all sorts of issues on Minnesotans' minds, from SROs to education. He also updated that the family cat, Afton, is unfortunately still missing.
Rep. Lisa Demuth was also on hand to discuss many of the same issues. You can see both hers and Walz's interviews in the videos below.
Tune in tonight to see Esme Murphy unpack what we learned from both interviews, and whether or not we'll see a special session to hammer out the language in the new law pertaining to SROs.
Both Saturdays' attendance breaks 200K
For the second time in 2023, the daily attendance figure reached above 200,000 total, making both Saturdays the busiest day of the fair thus far.
It could be the heat kept people away compared to normal figures, as the second Saturday usually counts as the busiest day of them all, and in this case it was bested by the prior Saturday.
At this point, it's not looking like the 2023 fair is going to break the all-time attendance record set in 2019, with more heat in store for the last pair of days.
