Capital Lakefair

From Capital Lakefair Website:

Capital Lakefair is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in Olympia, Washington. While widely known as Olympias annual summer festival, Lakefair operates year-round to celebrate and give back to our community in Thurston County.

The festival is a volunteer driven organization governed by a voting member body known as the Capitalarians, a group of individuals thatThurston County by donating their time and effort.

Each year as part of the Scholarship Program, a new group of young women from area high schools join the Lakefair Royalty tradition. The Court participates in all aspects of the organization throughout the season. This includes local activities such as the donation drive by Little Red School House, Special Needs Prom and events held by other area non-profit service groups. They also visit locations across Washington, Oregon and British Columbia as the Lakefair Float rides in parades hosted by other community festivals. Each princess receives a $3,000 scholarship to be applied to any type of higher education, and the selected queen receives an additional $2,000.

Funding for Capital Lakefair is provided by contributions from individuals and businesses in our community, financial and/or in-kind donations by our sponsors and operations from the annual five-day festival in July.

Lakefair opens Wednesday, offering a five-day buffet of carnival rides, music, people watching, fireworks, a parade and, of course, the food that lures otherwise-sensible eaters to indulge and sometimes overindulge as the week goes on.