The Lake County Fair booth won a silver award at the California State Fair this year. Courtesy photo.

SACRAMENTO – The county of Lake was presented with a silver award for their exhibit at the California State Fair, a collaborative effort of a committee chaired by the Lake County Chamber of Commerce.

Several businesses contributed time, materials, graphics and more to create the exhibit.

A full “thank you” will be published soon, listing the committee members, businesses and close to 70 volunteers – or Lake County Ambassadors – who are staffing the exhibit during its 18-day run from Aug. 21 to Sept. 7.

Some of the features this year are an 8 foot square map of the county, a 10 foot tall by 21 foot long photo mural of Clear Lake with Mt. Konocti in the background and an 11 foot tall wine cave with a waterfall cascading from the peak and down both sides of the cave.

Inside the cave are featured 18 different Lake County wines. The cave is the creation of Paradigm Concrete Artisans of Lakeport owned by Bill Bibler.

Also in the exhibit is a beautiful custom made counter top supplied by Bob Maher of Maherajah (skis); attached to the counter top is one of Bob's skis which was worn by the winner of the World Championship Ski Races in Belgium a month ago.

A video of Lake County activities and attractions created by Tony Barthel of the Featherbed Railroad Bed and Breakfast is being shown in a historic building reproduction made by Meek Construction.

A variety of photo/poster displays depicting the crop productions, population growth for 100 years, activities, etc. were created by Wray Graphics, Soul Cooperative and Direct Image Printing.

The theme this year is “Family Fun in Lake County.” There is a mountain bike suspended from the 30 foot ceiling donated for the fair by The Bicycle Rack and a biwing model seaplane is suspended as well as though it has just flown over Mt. Konocti. The plane was loaned by Ron and Darleen Keil of Kelseyville.

A visit to the California State Fair at CalExpo will provide an opportunity to experience displays from 33 of the 58 counties in California.

Fair hours are Monday through Thursday, noon to 10 p.m., and Friday, Saturday and Sunday from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m.

The booth was put together through the efforts of a number of local businesses and volunteers. Courtesy photo.