Source:MarketWire
What’s your favorite ride?
Is it the Zipper that throws you around in a topsy-turvy twirl? Or the Yoyo which spins you several feet off the ground? Or is it the traditional carousel that takes you on a dizzying gallop on a make-believe horse?
Whatever ride thrills you, the BC Safety Authority (BCSA) would like to remind [...]
Webster – Kirkwood Times
July 4th is just around the corner and the Community Days carnival is coming. With all that fun comes the “carnies,” the folks who operate all the rides, game booths and contests.
No one gets more excited about carnivals than Virginia Lee Hunter. A photographer and fine arts [...]
Frances Willick, The Windsor Star
A squabble between carnival workers and striking CUPE members brought about half a dozen police cars to the waterfront Thursday morning.
Maggie Durocher, executive director of the Windsor Parade Corporation, which runs Summerfest and leases land for the festival, said the altercation occurred when carnival employees started picking up litter on the [...]
By Bo Poertner – The Lompoc Record
Ken LaForce sits on the steps of the Eagle 16, a Ferris wheel ride that reaches 60 feet into a blue sky, backdropped by Lompoc’s southern hills.
He wears a white construction hat, greasy jeans and yellow T-shirt that tell the story of his labor.
His face is dark, burnt and [...]
By Greg England – The Expositor
The midway opened at 6 p.m. Wednesday night, behind the old Mallory building, with plenty of rides, food and fun as the carnival, owned by Geren Rides Inc. of Valdosta, GA, prepares for a weekend full of family entertainment.
“It’s strictly family fun,” said Frank Sutton with the Geren company. “Everything [...]
By Debra Moore – Redding.Com
When you think of fair food, what comes to mind?
“Corn dogs,” said Heather Waldrop without hesitation. The Redding resident prefers hers with ketchup, not the traditional mustard.
Tehama District Fair employee Jacque Brown said corn dogs are the most popular food at the fair.
“People love corn dogs,” she said. “They also like [...]
Source: PETA
This morning, PETA fired off a letter to Jerry Fitzgerald, chair of the Nebraska State Fair, urging him to ensure that all animal exhibitors who are invited to the fair will be in full compliance with the federal Animal Welfare Act (AWA). In the letter, PETA points out that its offices are inundated every [...]
By D. Linsey Wisdom – MaconNews.Com
There’s an unmistakable feeling of excitement when the carnival comes to town. It might be that lose-your-stomach thrill of the tilt-a-whirl or the press-your-luck game of dart throwing. Maybe it’s the excitement as the sounds and lights of the joy rides beckon through the night.
Maybe it’s just the smell of [...]
By Chandra Broadwater, St. Petersburg Times staff writer
Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please.
The International Independent Showmen’s Association proudly presents one of the few carnival museums in the country. Location? Across the street from the group’s headquarters in Riverview.
It has been years in the making. With more money to complete the project in the organization’s coffers [...]
Ledger-Dispatch.Com
California kids now have one more incentive to tackle their summer reading lists.
Building on the success of the past four years, the California State Fair and its new carnival operator, Butler Amusements, will continue with the popular literacy program that rewards youth for reading books.
How it works
The Read to Ride program is simple: read three [...]
