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Fair Association offers $2,500 to community groups — in return for parking attendants
by Joe Farruggia
The Warren County Fair Association is offering $2,500 to local non-profit community groups — but there’s a catch.
“We need volunteers to help direct parking each night of the fair,” said Joye Wood, president of the Fair Association. “If a non-profit group can organize 10 volunteers to help out from Sunday through the following Saturday, we will donate $2,500 to that group at the end of the week.”
In the past, members of the North Warren Volunteer Fire Department No. 10 have performed that duty for the fair.
But this year Co. 10 has informed fair officials that it will be unable to help.
“They are stretched thin, and I can understand how hard it can be for a volunteer fire department to handle this responsibility,” Wood said. “They are on call at all times, and if an emergency happens they would be called out.”
Wood said all non-profit groups are invited to organize volunteers — civic clubs, church groups, Boy Scouts or Girl Scouts, for example — but volunteers must be 18 years of age or older.
She said she would like to have volunteers signed up by July 1, to allow time to train them before the 2005 Warren County Fair begins on Sunday, July 31.
“We will have a manager on hand to help them if any problems arise,” Wood assured, “and the Sheriff’s Office will have deputies on duty throughout the fairgrounds.”
Gates open at 4 p.m. each night, and volunteers need to be at the fairgrounds at least 30 minutes before that. They should be available each night, beginning Sunday, July 31 through Saturday, Aug. 6.
To find out more about parking volunteers, call Wood at the Fairgrounds office, 635-5827.
Wood said the entrance booth to the fair will be moved further down the driveway, closer to the far end of the exhibit hut, so that traffic coming into the fair won’t be backed up at the light at the U.S. 340/522 intersection with Fairground Road as much as it has been in the past.
Also this year, fair beauty pageants will be streamlined to include fewer contests, and a new contest for cooking enthusiasts will be held.
The Hershey’s Co. is sponsoring a nationwide cooking contest for recipes that use Hershey’s chocolate as one of the ingredients. Local winners will have an opportunity to compete at the Virginia State Fair.
The demolition derby, which was held for the first time last year, proved so popular that two derbies will be held this year, Wood said. One will be sponsored by G&M Auto Sales and the other will be sponsored by Via Satellite.
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