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Free Admission
Free Parking
(in & around the KS State Fairgrounds)
New Option for 2023! Use Your Credit Card to Get “Cash” (AKA MCC Bucks)
View Sale Directory & Map here
Friday, April 14
4:00 PM Booths & Activities open (until 8:30 PM)
4:00 PM RAWtools Demonstrations (in afternoon)
4:00 PM Feeding the Multitude (serving until 8:00 PM)
4:00 PM Live Music in Sunflower North (from 4-8pm approx.)
4:00 PM MDS’ “The Storm Encounter” Mobile Exhibit (until 8pm)
5:00 PM Silent Auction Bidding Opens
6:00 PM Packing MCC Hygiene Kits (goes until 8:00 PM)
Saturday, April 15
7:00 AM Breakfast served in Cottonwood Court (until 10:00 AM)
8:00 AM 5K Run for Relief @ Rice Park
8:00 AM Booths & Activities open
8:00 AM RAWtools Demonstrations (in morning)
8:00 AM MDS’ “The Storm Encounter” Mobile Exhibit (until noon)
8:00 AM Silent Auction (bidding open until 1:00 PM)
8:45 AM General Auction (goes until mid afternoon)
8:45 AM Quilt Auction (goes until mid afternoon)
10:00 AM Children’s Auction
11:00 AM Feeding the Multitude (goes until 1:00 PM)
11:00 AM Pepsi Collectibles Auction
2:00 PM Vehicles & Featured Items Sell at General Auction (time is approximate)
2:30 PM Surplus Auction (time is approximate)
view 2023 schedule of events here
*Items available in multiple locations
Administration Building
- First Aid
Cottonwood Court
- Breakfast (Served 7am – 10am on Saturday)
- Feeding the Multitude – Verenike with gravy, sausage, Bohne Beroggi and Borscht
Domestic Arts
- Burritos
- Cookies
- Cheese – bulk
- Cherry Moos
- Ice Cream*
- New Years Cookies*
- Pie by the slice*
- Sausage (packaged rope sausage to take home & prepare)
- Ukrainian Eggs (Psanky) – art demonstration
- Verenike*
Meadowlark
- Information Booth
- Run for Relief – Friday night registration
- Quilt Auction
- Quilter’s Corner
- Baked Goods
- Hamburgers*
- Ice Cream*
- Pie*
- New Years Cookies*
- Soft Drinks and Water*
- Pork tenders
- Russian Pancakes
- Sale t-shirts
- MCC Caps and Yardsticks
Outside
- Big Slide – Unfortunately something has come up for the owner of the Big Slide and we will not be able to use the Slide for 2023. We apologize to all those that were looking forward to enjoying it this year.
- Chicken BBQ served outside only (in front of Sunflower South)
- Run for Relief at Rice Park
- MDS’ The Storm Encounter Mobile Exhibit
- RAWtools Demonstrations outside Sunflower South
Pride of Kansas
- Children’s Auction
- Pepsi Collectibles Auction
- Mini Golf
- Inflatables
Sunflower North
- Live Music (4-8pm on Friday Night)
- General Auction
- Mennonite Central Committee Booth
- Hamburgers*
- Hot Dogs
- Nachos
- Potato Wedges w/cheese
- Ice Cream*
- Pie/ by the slice*
- New Years Cookies*
- Soft Drinks and Water
Sunflower South
- My Coins Count
- Kansas Crafts
- Plants and Things
- Silent Auction
- Surplus Auction – Saturday afternoon (2:30pm approximate start time)
- Ten Thousand Villages – Fair Trade Coffee, Tea & Chocolates
- Kettle Corn (outside vendor trailer)
New Option for 2023! Use Your Credit Card to Get “Cash” (AKA MCC Bucks)
ANSWER: No, but there are 2 ATMs located fairly close to the Fairgrounds. One is at the Kwik Shop located at the corner of 17th and Plum and the other is at the First National Bank on North Main, located across the street to the west, and a few blocks north, from the Main Street entrance to the Fairgrounds.
The State Fair brings ATM’s in for the week of the fair, but they are not there any other time. The KMRS has looked into what it would take to get an ATM for the two days of the sale but has been unsuccessful, largely because it is only a two-day event.
Thanks for your interest in donating items to the Kansas Mennonite Relief Sale. Items bring the most money if they are advertised in advance. Please send pictures and descriptions to info@kansas.mccsale.org. A member of our auction team will contact you to get more information if needed. Donated items can be brought to the sale on Friday between 8:30 AM and 6:30 PM or prior to 8:45 on Saturday, the day of the auction. If you are unable to deliver items during these time frames, in many cases your church liaison can assist with delivery. If none of these options work, please call 620-747-0186 and we will try to get it picked up…We can collect things prior to the sale as well. If you still need information, please email info@kansas.mccsale.org.
Short Answer: We hope so!
Long Answer: It is difficult to give you a definite answer: The slide is on the fairgrounds but is not owned by the State Fair. It is owned by an individual who rents the location for the big slide from the state fair. Our contract with the fair does not include the right to use the slide. We must be in contact with the owner, we need to make sure we have people to help with the supervision and administration of the event, and the weather must be good enough before the sale to make sure the slide is clean and ready to use, and the weather on the days of the sale also must be okay and safe. Wind and rain do not allow for a safe experience. In 2022 we had everything, but the weather was so windy before the sale that the slide could not be prepared safely. We must defer to the owner’s decision.