Scott Lawrence – KFDM News
The South Texas State Fair has already broken a record and there are still seven days to go.
Chris Colletti with the Young Men’s Business League tells KFDM News yesterday’s attendance set a record for the first Sunday of any South Texas State Fair.
The YMBL is still calculating the numbers but Colletti [...]
Mesquite Local News
Royal West Amusements will be at Mesquite Days with new rides and old friends.
Nicholas Montoya, organizer of Mesquite Days, announced today that Royal West Amusements Carnival will be on site at their four day Festival this year with new rides to please event-goers.
The event will run from April 23 through April 26 at [...]
by Gus Moore – MiamiBeach411.Com
The Miami-Dade County Fair and Exposition starts today and continues through April 12, but don’t be surprised if the annoying theme song keeps playing in your head through summer… it’s one of those jingles that will haunt you.
What ever you do, don’t let the theme song stop you from going. The [...]
An entrepreneur and tinkerer, the inventor worked to make crepes and pancakes, and to separate oil and water.
By TIM HARLOW, Star Tribune
There might not be a more quintessential food at the Minnesota State Fair than mini-doughnuts, and for that we can thank entrepreneur Edward M. Anderson.
A man who had an inquisitive mind and loved to [...]
By Joe Kimball – MinnPost.Com
Kids with 4-H projects in Washington County get one more shot at blue ribbons in the State Fair competition, but after this year, the county’s funding of the program is finished, the county board decided.
The Stillwater Gazette reports that the board voted 4-1 Tuesday to eliminate two full-time program coordinator positions [...]
BY LAURA MORALES – Miami Herald
Get ready to spin until you’re sick, shoot at moving targets with water guns, and cram your face with roasted corn, funnel cakes and candy apples.
For the 58th year, the Miami-Dade County Fair & Exposition is springing up at the corner of Coral Way and Southwest 107th Avenue. Laborers [...]
by: ccruiserboyy – Content Caboodle
Cotton candy – what would childhood be without it? It’s sticky, sweet airiness brings memories of summer days spent under the circus tent, or meandering through the country fair’s exhibits. Let’s not forget nights sent on the carnival’s Ferris wheel, cotton candy in one hand while the other grips the [...]
Ray Malerbi – http://thepinetree.net
[Statement from Boyd Jensen, Spokesman from the California Portable Ride Operators Association (CalPRO) regarding the release of the investigative findings of the Department of Industrial Relations, Amusement Ride Unit respecting the Calaveras County Fair incident May 16th, 2008.] Regarding the DOSH report the most salient facts are that (1) “There was no [...]
Scott Lawrence – KFDM News
Volunteers are getting ready to put together the pieces of the South Texas State Fair.
The fair begins Thursday, March 26 and runs through April 5 at Ford Park.
The YMBL board voted to move the fair to March after Hurricane Ike prevented the event from taking place in its usual time period [...]
By Adrian Lennox – http://www.interpark.co.uk
Heavily involved in an as-yet-unnamed theme park that is being developed in China, Fabbri Group has announced it is moving into the realm of consultancy and masterplanning.
The coy Italian amusement rides manufacturer said it will deliver eight rides in total to a “complete new park” to be opened later this year [...]
