{"id":1180,"date":"2011-12-24T18:08:43","date_gmt":"2011-12-25T01:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1180"},"modified":"2012-05-15T20:02:58","modified_gmt":"2012-05-16T03:02:58","slug":"revival-of-county-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/?p=1180","title":{"rendered":"Revival of County Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Click<\/a>Old-timers will recall
\n when Utah County had some
\n great county fairs.
\n But this county – second-
\n ranking in Utah in
\n population and first in
\n agricultural income –
\n hasn’t had a fair since 1939.
\n After that year it turned its
\n fairgrounds facilities over
\n to the fledgling Central Utah
\n Vocational School.
\n forerunner to today’s Utah
\n Technical College.
\n Thus it was good news
\n when the Utah County-
\n Commission approved plans
\n Friday to reactivate the
\n County Fair in the
\n bicentennial year of 1976.
\n The proposal to have a
\n fair was made by a group of
\n interested persons beaded
\n by Ralph Horne, county
\n extension agent.
\n County commissioners
\n indicated the former
\n fairgrotmds cannot be used
\n for a site. Some of the old
\n buildings fell into disrepair
\n after the school vacated the
\n property, and the area
\n reverted to Provo City. The
\n one remaining building is
\n now used as a maintenance
\n facility for the Provo City
\n Parks and Recreation
\n Department and the
\n grounds have become part
\n of the Timpanogos Golf
\n Course.
\n Pending long-range
\n development of a
\n permanent county fair site,
\n existing community
\n facilities will have to be
\n used, it was indicated.
\n One of the first tasks will
\n be appointment of a fair
\n board to get the planning
\n under way. A committee
\n has been appointed to make
\n recommendations for
\n membership on the board
\n and suggest areas where
\n fair activites might be held,
\n and possible dates.
\n The Herald believes the
\n idea of a county fair will be
\n well-received. Utah County
\n has the agricultural –
\n industrial products, the
\n technology, and the civic
\n spirit to produce some great
\n fairs.
\n We suggest careful
\n studies of other county fairs
\n and close coordination as to
\n dates so that our fair doesn’t
\n conflict with fairs of
\n neighboring Wasatch and
\n Juab Coimties, nor withthe
\n state fair.
\n A great deal of
\n enthusiasm was generated
\n tin the county fair idea by
\n those attending Friday’s
\n meeting. That kind of spirit ,
\n is the first requirement to
\n make an undertaking like
\n this really successful.
\n So They Soy
\n “I sometimes think that
\n what the United Nations has
\n managed to do is more
\n remarkable than what it has
\n failed to do, when you
\n consider that it is an
\n organization of 138
\n indeoendent countries with
\n totally different histories,
\n backgrounds and interests,
\n united only by a series of
\n general principles and by a
\n common interest in the
\n future and survival of our
\n planet.” – U.N. Secretary-
\n General Kurt Waldheim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Old-timers will recall when Utah County had some great county fairs. But this county – second- ranking in Utah in population and first in agricultural income – hasn’t had a fair since 1939. After that year it turned its fairgrounds facilities over to the fledgling Central Utah Vocational School. forerunner to today’s Utah Technical College.… Continue reading Revival of County Fair<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gashler.com\/nlc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}