By Ken McLemore
Hope Star
A lawsuit filed here in behalf of the estate of a seven-year old boy killed in an April, 2007, Easter holiday carnival accident has been dismissed concerning all defendants in the multiple-cross-claims action except the maker of the carnival ride, pending the completion of a settlement.
Attorneys for Jelly Saunders Original Razorback Amusements, [...]
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By RITA PEARSON, AP
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MOLINE, Ill. – With one well-worn, battered blue suitcase, James Kopel of Moline spent the past 11 years attending every state fair in the United States.
By car and airplane, he figures he traveled about 80,000 miles — about half by air — and spent up to $40,000 to attend the official state [...]
Finding Dulcinea – By Christopher Coats
Threatening to displace the skyscraper as the ultimate symbol of civic and skyline authority, the Ferris wheel has returned, with efforts across the globe underway to create the highest and most impressive wheels around.
The Wheels in the Sky
Adding an element of seriousness, developers have dropped the original title, eliciting images [...]
By ALEX KENNEDY, Associated Press Writer – Yahoo News
SINGAPORE – Fire broke out in the control room of the world’s tallest observation wheel Tuesday, trapping 173 people hundreds of feet above the ground for hours and forcing rescuers to lower 10 passengers to safety by rope.
Two passengers were hospitalized with minor ailments.
During the six hour [...]
Rob Scott
The Daily Item
MIDDLEBURG — A raging fire Sunday destroyed a building owned by at least four businesses over the last few decades.
Middleburg Fire Chief Dwayne “Butch” Hackenburg said flames were shooting out the side and roof of the building, used for storage by Benner’s Amusements, when he arrived on the scene.
Dozens of firefighters from [...]
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NEW LONDON, Mo. — A 53-year-old traveling carnival manager who has a home in New London wins $1.4 million jackpot in the Missouri Lottery.
Thomas Cox matched all six numbers in the Dec. 10 Lotto drawing. The Missouri Lottery said Thursday that Cox bought the winning ticket at Abel’s Quik Stop in New London.
Cox chose to [...]
By Rod Rose/The Lebanon Reporter
Lebanon — As carnivals go, this summer’s Boone County 4-H fair will be ideal.
Luehrs’ Ideal Rides will appear at the Boone County Fairgrounds July 27-30, 2009.
The Boone County Fair Board last week approved a preliminary schedule for the annual event, said Tony Carrell, Extension Educator for 4-H Youth Development.
Jessup Amusements, which [...]
North Americas Top 50 experience only a 2% decrease from 2007
By MCW Staff
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North America’s Top 50 fairs held their own in 2008, dropping only 2% from 41,468,926 in 2007 to 40,670,657 in 2008 in a year that posed difficult challenges.
Chief among the concerns for 2008 was the [...]
By John Weiss
Post-Bulletin, Rochester MN
Conventional wisdom is wrong — you can judge a book by its cover.
The front of “Purebred & Homegrown: America’s County Fairs” shows four children chatting outside the Rice County 4-H Revue Center in Lyons, Kan., ready to show their sheep at the county fair.
It’s a simple picture, deceptively simple.
Drake Hokanson and [...]
