TURLOCK - Your chance to showcase your masterpieces at the 100th anniversary of the county’s largest community event is here. Fair officials invite everyone in the community to participate by showing off their talents and hobbies at the 2011 Stanislaus County Fair July 15 - 24.

This year’s fair celebrates 100 years of Stanislaus County Fair fun and is the focus for the 2011 exhibit categories, special contests and other events. Everyone can find a spot to showcase their talent(s) with many categories to choose from. Exhibitors can decorate, sew, bake, weave, preserve, knit, can, garden or plant, among other things, to enter the competition. Entering the county’s largest talent exhibition is easy and can be done from any computer.

For online entries, please visit www.stancofair.com. Entries can also be done by mail, simply download entry forms from the Fair’s website.

TURLOCK - “Motownphilly’s back again” when Boyz II Men brings their R&B sound to the 2011 Stanislaus County Fair.

Best-selling R&B group of all time, Boyz II Men, will perform on Saturday, July 16, at the Stanislaus County Fair. The group will appear on the Budweiser Variety Free Stage at 8:30 p.m. The concert is hosted by KHOP 95.1 and is free with the price of fair admission.

“This truly is a great way to round out our opening weekend. We are very excited to have this 90s group, that many grew up listening to, come to our Fair,” said Adrenna Alkhas, spokesperson for the Stanislaus County Fair. “We are thrilled to offer such amazing talent to our guests for no more than the price of admission.”

Four-time Grammy-winning group, Boyz II Men, has found long standing success in the strength of their combined natural talents. First signed to Motown Records while still in high school, the group clearly had natural talent.

TURLOCK - The California State University (CSU) Stanislaus Department of Theatre production of Dennis Kelly’s "Debris" has been selected to perform at the 2011 Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival (KCACTF). The prestigious honor is a first for the CSU Stanislaus College of the Arts-of 1,800 participating college and university theatre productions from across the country, only four were invited to perform at the April festival in Washington D.C.

"We are all extremely gratified and humbled at this opportunity to perform at the Kennedy Center," said Jere O’Donnell, CSU Stanislaus Debris production director. "The students have worked hard and the entire Department of Theatre has come together in order to make this production come together."

"I wish to extend congratulations to the students and faculty for this recognition of excellence in theatre arts," said CSU Stanislaus President Hamid Shirvani.