4-H Fair Dates Set In Advance
July 28, 2016 at 4:25 p.m.
Five-year planning for the Kosciusko County 4-H and Community Fair has resulted in later fair dates, according to the fair board.
However, board members said at Monday' meeting, setting five years' fair dates in advance has its benefits.
"We wanted to get away from the holidays," said incoming fair board president Steve Trump. "The people at the food stands didn't want to work over the Fourth (of July)."
In the past several years, the county fair has taken place early in July, sometimes over the July 4 holiday.
But the new schedule sets the fair toward the end of the month.
In 2003, the fair is scheduled for July 21-26. For 2004, it will be July 19-24; 2005, July 18-23; 2006, July 17-22; and 2007, July 16-21.
"4-H needs to plan in advance for livestock," Trump said, and the carnival companies that furnish the midway rides are in great demand.
"This gives us a chance to look at a long-term contract," he said.
Because of the change in dates, some fair events will be moved from their traditional dates.
For example, the truck pull, which previously has been scheduled for the last Friday and Saturday nights of the fair, will now move to the Friday and Saturday preceding the fair.
The board decided Monday that, though the midway won't be up and running while the truck pull is going on, food vendors will be asked to set up early so they will be available to crowds attending the truck pull.
Trump also said admission to the fairgrounds will be free on the nights of the truck pull, and the only cost for those evenings will be for admittance to the grandstand.
The board's annual meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Home and Family Arts Building.
Board president Paul Kuhn said his term as president is up and Trump will be the new president. Trump will fill out the final year of the term of Tim Plummer, who resigned, and Dan Hampton will become vice president in place of Tim Sammons, who also resigned.
Board members are Roy Bradbury, Elliott Enders, Dan Hampton, Dawn Harris, Brent Hoffman, Mike Loher, Frank Rhoades, Jerry Secrist, Joe Secrist, Steve Trump and Raymond Truex. [[In-content Ad]]
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Five-year planning for the Kosciusko County 4-H and Community Fair has resulted in later fair dates, according to the fair board.
However, board members said at Monday' meeting, setting five years' fair dates in advance has its benefits.
"We wanted to get away from the holidays," said incoming fair board president Steve Trump. "The people at the food stands didn't want to work over the Fourth (of July)."
In the past several years, the county fair has taken place early in July, sometimes over the July 4 holiday.
But the new schedule sets the fair toward the end of the month.
In 2003, the fair is scheduled for July 21-26. For 2004, it will be July 19-24; 2005, July 18-23; 2006, July 17-22; and 2007, July 16-21.
"4-H needs to plan in advance for livestock," Trump said, and the carnival companies that furnish the midway rides are in great demand.
"This gives us a chance to look at a long-term contract," he said.
Because of the change in dates, some fair events will be moved from their traditional dates.
For example, the truck pull, which previously has been scheduled for the last Friday and Saturday nights of the fair, will now move to the Friday and Saturday preceding the fair.
The board decided Monday that, though the midway won't be up and running while the truck pull is going on, food vendors will be asked to set up early so they will be available to crowds attending the truck pull.
Trump also said admission to the fairgrounds will be free on the nights of the truck pull, and the only cost for those evenings will be for admittance to the grandstand.
The board's annual meeting will be at 7 p.m. Monday at the Home and Family Arts Building.
Board president Paul Kuhn said his term as president is up and Trump will be the new president. Trump will fill out the final year of the term of Tim Plummer, who resigned, and Dan Hampton will become vice president in place of Tim Sammons, who also resigned.
Board members are Roy Bradbury, Elliott Enders, Dan Hampton, Dawn Harris, Brent Hoffman, Mike Loher, Frank Rhoades, Jerry Secrist, Joe Secrist, Steve Trump and Raymond Truex. [[In-content Ad]]