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Friday, August 25, 1995

By Michelle Nguyen

Summer Bruin Contributor

Pomona has its share of rush hour traffic and foot traffic, but livestock traffic is something new. Two-to 300 cowboys will guide 200 cattle through its hills and the streets to the Los Angeles County Fair in the Pomona Fairplex. This is just one of the highlights of the fair, which runs from Sept. 6-29.

Coordinators hope to attract anyone with interests as diverse as technology and chuckwagon races, Latin music and gems, or art and basketball. Already the largest of all county fairs in America, the Los Angeles County Fair promises to outdo itself as "America's Fair."

"This will be by far the biggest, most grandiose event that I've ever been involved in," says Sid Robinson, the fair's Communications Manager. "People won't be coming here feeling that this is the same old thing. There are a lot of changes."

One of the exciting new features at the fair will be the live nightly entertainment. Novelty pop acts The Village People and Weird Al Yankovic, modern rockers the Goo Goo Dolls, Pat Boone, Eddie Money and All for One are all included in the musical line-up. But the musical diversity also includes an array of Latin, country, classic rock, Christian, jazz and adult contemporary music.

Of course, the Los Angeles County Fair could not be up-and-coming if it did not include an expansive multi-media exhibit that invites visitors to examine the latest computer software, surf the Internet and play computer games.

Sports fans and art lovers can come together to observe "Art and the Athlete," which presents a variety of Olympic poster art. A presentation of the history of athletic art will include works by Andy Warhol and LeRoy Neiman. There will also be some amazing athletes to watch, such as the Great Wall acrobats from China or the daredevil gymnasts and world record holders of the Aquabatics high dive and trampoline show.

For sports enthusiasts unsatisfied with the sidelines, there will be an NBA Jam Session, a 30-foot-high simulated rock wall and, for an even greater challenge, an Ejection Seat which boosts riders about 150 feet into the air.

For the less bold, there are 75 rides from the Ray Cammack Shows Carnival.

If that is not enough to entertain you, there will be drag racing and flower exhibits, a wine tasting area, train and motor sports shows, a horse and livestock show, a dairy exhibit, and a bees and honey show.

If that's still not enough, you may want to consider blindfolded skydiving or therapy.

Fair: The Los Angeles County Fair runs Sept. 6-29 in Pomona. Tickets are $9 for adults, $7 for seniors over 60, and $5 for children ages 6-12. Children under 6 are free. For more info. call (909) 865-4298 or (909) 623- 3111.