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    Around 2 p.m. the Kinetic Pageantry Parade of Kinetic Teams competition started in front of the judges to show off the teams’ costumed creativity and theatrical and choreography skills.
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    Robot Adams of Clown School Dropout set a high bar for his pageantry performance and eventually was awarded first place in the event.
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    The Daisy Bell/Team Fembot trio of Nancy and Carol Keig, plus Joe Gibson, seranaded the judges in their pageantry performance.
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    Dancing in the light rain, the mPROM2 team reprised their pageantry performance that won first place in the Kinetic Grand Championship back in May.
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    Princess Teacher Yvanna was among the first participants to arrive for the Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race that followed the parade.
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    These Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race participants were headed for the starting gate with their hobby horses (from left, Robot Adams, Monica Topping-Adams, Yavanna Reynolds, Nikki Lokks, Christina Swingdler, Lucas Thornton, Raelina Krikston and Wendy Burns).
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    The Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race participants including Christina Swingdler showed a variety of form while leaping over the hurdles.
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    Wendy Burns and her hobby horse caught some air while leaping over the hurdles in the Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race.
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    Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race participant Lucas Thornton showed off his style while leaping over the hurdles.
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    Princess Teacher Yavanna took a bow after her heat in the Rutabaga Royalty Hobby Kinetic Kreature Race and then moved on to next participate in the Ladies Hat Day Competition.
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    Participants of all ages in the Ladies Hat Day Competition lined up, some in high heels, on the racetrack dirt to strut and dance their hats off in front of the judges.
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    Tilly Thompson (left) and Elle Penner joined the Ladies Hat Day Competition on the racetrack dirt and danced in front of the judges.
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    Tilly Thompson (right) eventually was named the prize winner of the Most Glamorous “Hategory.”
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    Alice Roberts and her butterfly hat won one of the Honorable Mentions awarded, along with Lucy Lips, Barbara Sweigart and Ellie Green.
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    The Funniest or Most Outrageous “Hategory” award went to Tracy Jackson for her Fair-themed hat.
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    “Hategory” winners included: Best Couple or Group: June’s Moxon’s Sparkle & the Rhinestones team; Most Original: Yavanna Reynolds; Funniest or Most Outrageous: Tracy Jackson; and Most Glamorous: Tilly Thompson. Honorable Mentions recognition went to Alice Roberts, Lucy Lips, Barbara Sweigart and Ellie Green.
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    Second Runner-Up in the Ladies Hat Competition Carolyn Polasek was awarded the prize of $250 for her peacock feather-themed hat.
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    Elle Penner was named First Runner-Up in the Ladies Hat Competition and and awarded the prize of $500.
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    The Grand Prize in the Ladies Hat Competition of $1,000 was awarded to Kinetic Rhutabaga Queen-for-Life Olivia Gambino.
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    Ladies Hat Day organizers Debbie Retzloft-Olson and Cindy Olsen (front row right and center) joined Grand Prize winner in the Ladies Hat Competition Kinetic Rhutabaga Queen-for-Life Olivia Gambino, First Runner-Up Elle Penner, Second Runner-Up Carolyn Polasek, Tilly Thompson and Yavanna Reynolds for a photo on the Brown Chicken Brown Trout Kinetic sculpture just before it headed off to next join the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby.
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    More than a few Humboldt County Fair attendees were surprised to see the Daisy Bell/Team Fembot and 10 other Kinetic racers on the race track as the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby got underway.
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    Kim Bergel (right) and Celene Olson in the They Came From Out-‘o-Town race vehicle headed down the race track in the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby.
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    June Moxon and her Sparkle the Horse & the Rhinestones team returned the equine spirit to the fair racetrack in the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby.
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    The Brown Chicken Brown Trout Kinetic race team headed up and over the hill climb installed in the racetrack dirt to the hay-bale obstacles and the finish line.
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    The Kinetic tradition of dousing the participants with water continued for Team Plan Bee and other racers at the finish line of the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby.
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    The Swing Kids team survived as the winner of the Kinetic Obstacle Exhibition Derby after multiple two-vehicle heats over the dirt track’s speed bumps, a mud pit, a giant hill and hay-bale obstacles.