The 2016 Ellis County Fair — with the theme “Heroes in the Heartland” — is scheduled for July 16 to 23.

To ENTER for a chance to win free Ellis County Fair tickets, email a name and daytime telephone number to [email protected]. Enter “FAIR” in the subject line.

Hays Post and Eagle Web Services are teaming to offer FREE tickets to the fair, which will feature KPRA Rodeo activities, a truck and tractor pull, and a demolition derby, among many other activities. Headliner Little Texas will take the stage on Friday, July 22.

Little Texas wrote a song about fallen Hays hero Bryan Nichols, who died in a 2011 helicopter accident in Afghanistan. Click HERE to hear the song, inspired by Nichols’ funeral procession. Nichols was a 1998 graduate of Thomas More Prep-Marian.

For more on the fair, click HERE.