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Your guide to the State Fair: Day 8

Last update: August 29, 2007 - 9:12 PM

TODAY'S THEME

It's Seniors Day, with $5 entry if you're 65 or older. A "stretch and stroll" will be held at 10 a.m. in Carousel Park, with a pedometer, T-shirt and water for the first 1,000 participants.

FAIR FACT

Before the fair moved to St. Paul, it was hosted by Minneapolis, Rochester, Red Wing, Winona and Owatonna.

THE BIG SHOW

B.B. King, Al Green and Etta James,pictured, come to the grandstand for the 2007 B.B. King Blues Festival. Show at 7 p.m., tickets, $42.

ELSEWHERE IN THE PAPER

See whose baking took the ribbons. Turn to Taste T4

At the Star Tribune Booth

CJ will be there at 9:30 a.m. for gossip with attitude. Fixit columnist Karen Youso shows up at 11 a.m. James Lileks will be blogging from the back porch for buzz.mn.

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