 The Crow Wing County Fair starts this week in Brainerd and there are a few new things this year including a brand new welcome sign to the fairgrounds. With this week's community spotlighter reporter Rachel Johnson has more. The Crow Wing County Fairgrounds we're bustling today while crews work to get set up for tomorrow. The opening of this year's county fair. We work really hard until the day the fair opens up tomorrow. We'll be ready to rock and roll. There is a lot to look forward to this year from the 4-H building, the livestock, the rides, and of course the food. The fair is the fair. We have a full schedule of entertainment in the grandstands with the bull riding and the monster trucks, that's a big draw, motocross and then the last two nights of course our Baja Racing which is also a big big deal here. In addition to the old standbys there are also some new things to look forward to. One is the white tiger discovery which is an educational and kind of a hands-on type of thing for the white tigers which are on the endangered species list. The other thing is we have knocker balls which is a big blown-up ball with a tube in the middle that and we already have one competition it happens to be Steve Coles from the dispatch and Gary Doucette the manager of the fair they're going to duke it out in the sumo wrestlers. Something else that is new this year is the welcome sign that was made by Central Lakes College welding students. The partnership provided a perfect opportunity for welding students to get hands-on real-world experience in their field. Designing it and actually seeing it go up that's pretty cool and seeing your final product. It was enjoyable as an instructor to watch that group of students do that project with me just standing back from a distance and and keeping on the right track. No matter what your interest the Crow Wing County Fair has something for everybody. When you see the kids smiling when they got those ribbons I mean it just touches your heart because I mean it's just something special to them. Just like to tell everybody come on out to the fair I don't know if anybody is aware but we do every restricted parking on 13th street because of the detour so parking might be a little difficult don't give up find a place and come on in admission is free. For this week's community spotlight reporting from Braden Rachel Johnson Lakeland News. If you enjoyed this segment of Lakeland News please consider making a tax-deductible contribution to Lakeland PBS.