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NEWS REPORT Wed 7/30/08 |
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The Trinity County Fair Board canceled the 2008 Trinity County Fair and associated Mule Show last night at an emergency meeting, due to fire danger and the fire camp at the fairgrounds. |
Below is an article from the Record Searchlight (The Redding Newspaper)
Trinity county cancels fair to accommodate firefighters
The Trinity County Fair in Hayfork has been canceled.
Meeting in emergency session Tuesday night, the nine-member Trinity County Fair board of directors voted unanimously to cancel the fair so firefighters could continue to use the fairgrounds as a base.
Board chairwoman Billie Miller said Tuesday that she could not remember the fair ever being canceled. It may have been canceled during World War II, she said.
“I’ve been coming for over 50 years and I don’t ever remember it being canceled,” Miller said.
The fair was scheduled to run Aug. 22-24.
Because youth have been working for months preparing sheep, cattle, chickens and other animals, the fair will still hold the junior livestock auction at 2 p.m. Aug. 23. A location for the auction hasn’t been decided, Miller said.
She said about 25 people attended the meeting, which was held in the boardroom at the fairgrounds. No one in the audience was against canceling the fair, Miller said.
Most of the discussion focused on the junior livestock auction, she said.
The fairgrounds has been a base of operations throughout July for hundreds of federal and state firefighters, as well as National Guard troops, battling wildfires near Hayfork.
“This is too big an operation, fire-wise, to ask them to get up and move someplace else,” Miller said. “We don’t want to interfere with them.”
The loss of the fair this year will hurt Hayfork and the rest of Trinity County economically, but the fires have probably offset that, Miller said.
Earlier this month, the Trinity Tribal Stomp had to be moved from Junction City to Weaverville because of fires burning in the area. The three-day event was also reduced to one day.
Miller said the board needed to decide this week on whether to cancel the fair because officials were set to begin accepting entries next Wednesday for the various competitions, such as foods and crafts.
“It’s sad, very sad. It’s something people work for all year. People were planning to bring their jellies, jams and cakes,” Miller said.
