It’s ropin’ and ridin’ time at the Habersham County Fairgrounds. The highly-anticipated rodeo has arrived for the final two days of the Chattahoochee Mountain Fair.
The fair committee is offering the largest payout in its history and the largest payout for a rodeo in Northeast Georgia this year. The $18,000 purse is partly thanks to the generous support from Hayes Chevrolet of Baldwin and other event sponsors.
The rodeo is scheduled at the Habersham County Fairgrounds on Friday and Saturday nights, September 15 and 16. It begins at 8 o’clock on both nights.
The cost to get into the fair is $15 per person on Friday and Saturday and includes rodeo admission.
The fair closes both nights at 10 p.m.
Saturday is the last day of the fair. Gates will open at 11 a.m.
Rodeo preview
The special needs students from Habersham Central High School and the Ninth Grade Academy got to preview the rodeo Friday morning.
The Chattahoochee Mountain Fair Committee hosted the students earlier this week at the fairgrounds and arranged for an afternoon rodeo exhibition. The students got to experience some of the action crowds will see tonight and Saturday night during the rodeo.
The students saw live demonstrations of calf roping, barrel racing, and head and heel team roping.
“Many of these students wouldn’t have an opportunity to come out here and see this rodeo if it were not for the partnership between the school system and the fair,” said Habersham County School Superintendent Matthew Cooper.
Cooper thanked the fair committee for making Friday’s rodeo field trip possible.
“I am so grateful to the fair committee for their generosity and hospitality to these special needs students. I want to say thank you to them and to all of the other people behind the scenes that make this happen.” He added, “For these students here, they’re happy right now. To me, that’s part of being successful.”
