August 25, 2024 • 12 mins
From the IHeart Podcast Parlor at the Allen County Fair, Russ Decker is joined by Fair Director Troy Elwer to recap the 2024 Allen County Fair and look ahead to upcoming events at the fairgrounds!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
All right, and welcome back to ACF four one one
right here our podcast parlor, the Old Milking Parlor at
the Allen County Fair, and thanks to i Haart for
hosting our podcast all week long. Our podcast are powered
by Nutrient. We also want to thank April Spencer and
Spencer Tugger Shop for bringing us our plate of cookies
that all of our guests in the podcast studio have
(00:23):
left with handfuls of cookies, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And Alex Wolf, our engineer, Alex, thanks for making a
sound good.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So this is our final podcast from the twenty twenty
four Allen County Fair, the one and seventy fourth Allen
County Fair, and we have the man in charge and
his boss sitting right at the end of the table. Reese,
She's in charge, but Troy Halward thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Todave Russ Wow, jeez, make him sound louder than me. Yeah,
I understand, I understand. I'm come sort of. Just call
me Cricket Decker. I get it all right. So good week,
bad week, medium week.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'd tell you what, Russ. Overall, I felt like the
fair went extremely well. Attendance was fantastic. In today's attendance
is no slouch as well. I honestly I credit a
lot of that to the weather that we've had. It's
been absolutely gorgeous, and the community support we've received over
the last eight nine days has has been fantastic and
(01:23):
I couldn't be more grateful for that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I really appreciate that because, as you know, I chaired
the weather committee.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Can we put in for like seventy ish? We got it?
So that was good.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I placed my order with Mother Nature like three or
four months ago and she must have listened.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She got it. Man. Oh, there's senior boss just kave
you kudos. That's good.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I tell you what, it has been really neat Russ
since you're bringing them up. Experiencing my first fair with
our little family, Alian Reese, it has been really, really enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Reese's two favorite parts of the fair are the animals
and the golf cart.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Does she get to drive yet?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
She doesn't get to drive yet?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But what about six months?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Seven seven months?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Seven months? Okay, Because she's doing a good job with
your walkie talkie.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Down there using it as a chew toy, I'll tell
you what it's.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, it's and you know it's it's. It's like a
micro version of like, this is what the fair is about.
It's about families coming out learning a little bit maybe
about agriculture they didn't know. Because I always like it
when I walk through a barn and you hear somebody
for the first time saying, no, what is that And
it's like it's a lama or it's a whatever in
you're in that barn. But for some of these kids,
(02:36):
this first time they've ever seen it. You know, they
don't know where their milk came from, and they don't
know where their keeping came from.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't want to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
About that, but but you know, it's just it's kind
of interesting that that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's what the farmers, that's what the fair is about.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Is education, right, That's really what it is. It's a
it's an educational experience across the one hundred and thirty
five acres of property. And really that's what our mission
is RUSS. It's it's promoting youth and promoting agriculture. And
really these nine days are dedicated to showcasing the super
talented youth and youngsters that we have, right here in
Lime Allen County. Across the board, our four H and
(03:12):
FFA organizations in this community or are are some of
the top tier in the state of Ohio. And I
can tell you what. I talked to business professionals all
the time and they always, they always tell me, whenever
they're trying to hire anyone, if they have a four
H or FFA background on their resume, that resume gets
itself to the top of the list pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yep, it does. So tell me. Highlight of the fair
for Troy Ellwork.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Highlight of the fair Man, oh Man, There's been quite
a few really good ones.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm going to answer this as a as a consensus.
As a whole this year, we've been able to accomplish
quite a few improvement projects thanks to a lot of
wonderful partners, and really I think the overall enhanced experience,
the improvements we've made to the property to make our
(04:07):
facilities more accessible across the board, the improvement that we've
made in our infrastructure across the board, making the environment
comfortable and safe and fun for families, friends and kids
to enjoy, has really been neat to kind of watch
as people have experienced those new improvements and you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Know, obviously we can't list them all, but I'm just
thinking off the top of my head the improvements in
the restroom for the for the people who need assistance.
That was a great That was a great project with
the Board of Developmentally Disabled.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That that is definitely one of my favorite partnerships to
date in my position here at the Fairgrounds. The alland
County Board of Developmental Disabilities is barred on a class
Act and fantastic to work with. They helped us get
a grant through the State of Ohio to where we
were able to install universal changing tables in our midway
restroom facilities, handicapped push button door openers as well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And then of course we had and we talked about
this earlier in the series, but we talked about the
collaboration between Farm Bureau and Mercy on the new show
RNA down there for.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sheep and Goats.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Absolutely contributions from in a big thanks to Mercy and
Allen County Farm Bureau for their contributions. And then the
State of Ohio gave us some half the funding for
that project, and our Allen County Commissioners contributed try it
quite a bit to that project as well. And really
the demand for a building like that is a good
problem in our eyes because our four h numbers are growing,
(05:36):
especially in the sheep and goat departments, and we want
to continue to see that trend kind of work its
way into the rest of our rest of our facilities
and departments.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And I know there are future hog exhibitors that are
just you know, really anxious to get in out, get
out here and exhibit. And the new maintenance building with
help from the Eagles, another new.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Partner out here, absolutely couldn't be more grateful for that
new partnership with the Limeaery Eagles. They they basically paid
for half of that building in the state of Ohio
paid for the other half. So an absolutely fantastic partnership
is definitely going to help kind of separate our full
time maintenance staff and our electricians so that they have
their own space to take care of what they need
(06:16):
to on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So re slip me a note and said, I should
ask you, what do you call two hogs that are
playing tug of war?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh boy, two hogs that are playing tug of war pork.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, it is what do you call a hog with
no legs?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ground pork?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ground hog? All right, so we got you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Oh man, that was good. Yeah, Hey can you Alex,
can you cue a cricket noise?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So we come out of this because I know, I know,
typically you only work about nine ten days of a year.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But but you wrap.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Up the Allen County Fair, you'll start cleaning stuf up tonight,
all night and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But Max's is coming up right around the corner. It is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's crazy, so it never ceases to amaze me each
and every year. This is my third fair. Now, how
fast this place comes to life, but even quicker how
it comes apart and rolls out of here. And then
we transition into our biggest non fair event of the year,
Maxis Trader Days and water dog Races. He literally capitalizes
on every square inch of our one hundred and thirty
(07:28):
five acres with over fourteen to fifteen hundred vendors, and
he always packs the house. We couldn't be more grateful
for Maxis support, and he really brings a lot of
diversity into here when it comes a different product for
his trade show.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And then it won't be too long, and we're going
to have Bright Nights Mercy's, Bright Night Mercy Health and
talk about that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, So first of all, thank you to Nutrient for
being a new partner to that event this year. I
think we'll provide a plug and tease the folks for
a new display that'll be on our route this year.
But Bright Night's basically runs from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve,
and we're open. We do Friday, Saturday, Sunday leading all
(08:11):
the way up until the week of Christmas, and then
that whole week leading up to Christmas Eve. We're open.
But it's a twenty to twenty five minute drive through
Christmas light display experience like what you would see at
Zoos or other parks. And it's only a couple years old,
but it's made some tremendous growth here in the last
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And so I've got to plug a thing that we're
doing a joint venture between Nutrient in the fair grounds,
yes for Bright Nights. So if you have a group
out there that thinks you can sing a Christmas carol,
you don't have to be good at it, you just
have to have a spirit. Right, But if you contact
Troy at the Fair office. We're going to be Our
goal is at least on the weekends, at least on
(08:48):
Fridays and Saturdays. We're gonna encourage groups to come out
and carol on the Nutrient Plaza stage. And we will
pay their groups one hundred dollars an hour to carol.
So if they're here for the whole night, that's three hours.
So it's better than a car wash. And I know
I had somebody stop me out of the Clear Blue.
I don't even know how they knew about it, but
they were with a volleyball team and said, now, we're
(09:11):
not a choir, but can our volleyball team come in saying,
and I said, go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Talk to Troy, but I'm pretty sure the answers yes.
And so we really do want to encourage.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
If anybody you know wants to come out have some
fun little fundraiser for their four age club or their
their sports team or whatever it is, or their choir.
It could be a choir, that'd be great. But Christmas Carols,
it's all about having fun and spirit right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Here exactly right, and we have really the perfect space
for those groups to perform. That's it's already smack dab
on our route. The Nutrient Plaza stage that is just
west or just behind the grand stands is where they're
going to be performing. And we've got power and everything
right there, and you have the ability to light that
stage up or dim it down if you want to.
So kind of a cool experience. So I hope folks
(09:55):
take or groups take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I do too, and that's why you know we want
to plug in. We'll start figure around ways to get
that word out. But it'd be fun if we haven't
booked every weekend, and because I think it just adds
to the experience. The lights are really cool, but just
having some live Christmas carolers like we used to do
in the old days, where you just get I could remember.
So I know I'm older than dirt, you can tell
me that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But I remember when we just get all the kids
in the neighborhood and we'd like go carol for two
or three blocks and just knock on doors and start
singing carols. And I doubt that we sounded very good,
but everybody seemed to enjoy it and was part of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So hopefully we'll bring some of that fun to bright Nights.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
This year, so I'm looking forward to it. And yeah,
just in case people are listening right now and they
are potentially involved in a group and want to contact
me directly, the number two call to contact me is
four one nine two two eight seven one four one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And if that doesn't work, let me know. I'll get
you his persontal cell phone. No, I would not do that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I would.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That's our Hey, So one last thing before we let
you go, because I know you're a little bit busy.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Got one more day to work.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yep, one more day until next year's fair.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's right, So let's talk about next year's fair. It's
the one and seventy fifth. I'm assuming they'll be like
cake and punch and stuff for What do you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Got planned for next year? Yeah? Maybe some more dervs.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
No, we are very excited about this historic landmark for
our fair, the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of
the Allen County Fair. The dates are August fifteenth through
the twenty third, twenty twenty five, and we have already
begun planning multiple special activities, events, mementos just to just
(11:38):
to really put a little special cap on this fair
and really thank the folks that have supported us over
the years and also give them an enhanced experience of
what we already already do offer the other eight nine
days of the fair.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So I'm pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Excited just looking forward to because I know, I know
you've got some surprises up your sleeves and I think
people are to get enjoy next year's fair.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And congratulations on a great fair this year.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Hey Russ, thank you so much and for all of
your support. I tell you what, We've got nothing but
fantastic feedback on these podcasts and I'm looking forward to
seeing these really take off in the future.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Thanks. We'll do it again next year. And that's going
to be a rap for this year for ACF. Four
to one one from the Allen County Fair.
All right, and welcome back to ACF four one one
right here our podcast parlor, the Old Milking Parlor at
the Allen County Fair, and thanks to i Haart for
hosting our podcast all week long. Our podcast are powered
by Nutrient. We also want to thank April Spencer and
Spencer Tugger Shop for bringing us our plate of cookies
that all of our guests in the podcast studio have
(00:23):
left with handfuls of cookies, so that's pretty cool.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And Alex Wolf, our engineer, Alex, thanks for making a
sound good.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
So this is our final podcast from the twenty twenty
four Allen County Fair, the one and seventy fourth Allen
County Fair, and we have the man in charge and
his boss sitting right at the end of the table. Reese,
She's in charge, but Troy Halward thanks for joining us.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Hey, thanks for having me on.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Todave Russ Wow, jeez, make him sound louder than me. Yeah,
I understand, I understand. I'm come sort of. Just call
me Cricket Decker. I get it all right. So good week,
bad week, medium week.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
I'd tell you what, Russ. Overall, I felt like the
fair went extremely well. Attendance was fantastic. In today's attendance
is no slouch as well. I honestly I credit a
lot of that to the weather that we've had. It's
been absolutely gorgeous, and the community support we've received over
the last eight nine days has has been fantastic and
(01:23):
I couldn't be more grateful for that.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Well.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
I really appreciate that because, as you know, I chaired
the weather committee.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
Can we put in for like seventy ish? We got it?
So that was good.
Speaker 3 (01:33):
I placed my order with Mother Nature like three or
four months ago and she must have listened.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
She got it. Man. Oh, there's senior boss just kave
you kudos. That's good.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
I tell you what, it has been really neat Russ
since you're bringing them up. Experiencing my first fair with
our little family, Alian Reese, it has been really, really enjoyable.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
Reese's two favorite parts of the fair are the animals
and the golf cart.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Does she get to drive yet?
Speaker 3 (02:00):
She doesn't get to drive yet?
Speaker 2 (02:02):
But what about six months?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
Seven seven months?
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Seven months? Okay, Because she's doing a good job with
your walkie talkie.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Down there using it as a chew toy, I'll tell
you what it's.
Speaker 1 (02:15):
No, it's and you know it's it's. It's like a
micro version of like, this is what the fair is about.
It's about families coming out learning a little bit maybe
about agriculture they didn't know. Because I always like it
when I walk through a barn and you hear somebody
for the first time saying, no, what is that And
it's like it's a lama or it's a whatever in
you're in that barn. But for some of these kids,
(02:36):
this first time they've ever seen it. You know, they
don't know where their milk came from, and they don't
know where their keeping came from.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
I don't want to talk.
Speaker 1 (02:43):
About that, but but you know, it's just it's kind
of interesting that that.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
That's what the farmers, that's what the fair is about.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Is education, right, That's really what it is. It's a
it's an educational experience across the one hundred and thirty
five acres of property. And really that's what our mission
is RUSS. It's it's promoting youth and promoting agriculture. And
really these nine days are dedicated to showcasing the super
talented youth and youngsters that we have, right here in
Lime Allen County. Across the board, our four H and
(03:12):
FFA organizations in this community or are are some of
the top tier in the state of Ohio. And I
can tell you what. I talked to business professionals all
the time and they always, they always tell me, whenever
they're trying to hire anyone, if they have a four
H or FFA background on their resume, that resume gets
itself to the top of the list pretty quickly.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
Yep, it does. So tell me. Highlight of the fair
for Troy Ellwork.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Highlight of the fair Man, oh Man, There's been quite
a few really good ones.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
I'm going to answer this as a as a consensus.
As a whole this year, we've been able to accomplish
quite a few improvement projects thanks to a lot of
wonderful partners, and really I think the overall enhanced experience,
the improvements we've made to the property to make our
(04:07):
facilities more accessible across the board, the improvement that we've
made in our infrastructure across the board, making the environment
comfortable and safe and fun for families, friends and kids
to enjoy, has really been neat to kind of watch
as people have experienced those new improvements and you.
Speaker 1 (04:25):
Know, obviously we can't list them all, but I'm just
thinking off the top of my head the improvements in
the restroom for the for the people who need assistance.
That was a great That was a great project with
the Board of Developmentally Disabled.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
That that is definitely one of my favorite partnerships to
date in my position here at the Fairgrounds. The alland
County Board of Developmental Disabilities is barred on a class
Act and fantastic to work with. They helped us get
a grant through the State of Ohio to where we
were able to install universal changing tables in our midway
restroom facilities, handicapped push button door openers as well.
Speaker 2 (05:03):
Very cool.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
And then of course we had and we talked about
this earlier in the series, but we talked about the
collaboration between Farm Bureau and Mercy on the new show
RNA down there for.
Speaker 2 (05:13):
Sheep and Goats.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
Absolutely contributions from in a big thanks to Mercy and
Allen County Farm Bureau for their contributions. And then the
State of Ohio gave us some half the funding for
that project, and our Allen County Commissioners contributed try it
quite a bit to that project as well. And really
the demand for a building like that is a good
problem in our eyes because our four h numbers are growing,
(05:36):
especially in the sheep and goat departments, and we want
to continue to see that trend kind of work its
way into the rest of our rest of our facilities
and departments.
Speaker 1 (05:45):
And I know there are future hog exhibitors that are
just you know, really anxious to get in out, get
out here and exhibit. And the new maintenance building with
help from the Eagles, another new.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Partner out here, absolutely couldn't be more grateful for that
new partnership with the Limeaery Eagles. They they basically paid
for half of that building in the state of Ohio
paid for the other half. So an absolutely fantastic partnership
is definitely going to help kind of separate our full
time maintenance staff and our electricians so that they have
their own space to take care of what they need
(06:16):
to on a day to day basis.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
So re slip me a note and said, I should
ask you, what do you call two hogs that are
playing tug of war?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Oh boy, two hogs that are playing tug of war pork.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
Yes, it is what do you call a hog with
no legs?
Speaker 3 (06:36):
Ground pork?
Speaker 2 (06:37):
Ground hog? All right, so we got you.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Oh man, that was good. Yeah, Hey can you Alex,
can you cue a cricket noise?
Speaker 2 (06:47):
Thank you so much, Thank you so much.
Speaker 1 (06:49):
So we come out of this because I know, I know,
typically you only work about nine ten days of a year.
Speaker 2 (06:54):
But but you wrap.
Speaker 1 (06:57):
Up the Allen County Fair, you'll start cleaning stuf up tonight,
all night and tomorrow.
Speaker 2 (07:03):
But Max's is coming up right around the corner. It is.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
It's crazy, so it never ceases to amaze me each
and every year. This is my third fair. Now, how
fast this place comes to life, but even quicker how
it comes apart and rolls out of here. And then
we transition into our biggest non fair event of the year,
Maxis Trader Days and water dog Races. He literally capitalizes
on every square inch of our one hundred and thirty
(07:28):
five acres with over fourteen to fifteen hundred vendors, and
he always packs the house. We couldn't be more grateful
for Maxis support, and he really brings a lot of
diversity into here when it comes a different product for
his trade show.
Speaker 1 (07:43):
And then it won't be too long, and we're going
to have Bright Nights Mercy's, Bright Night Mercy Health and
talk about that for a minute.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, So first of all, thank you to Nutrient for
being a new partner to that event this year. I
think we'll provide a plug and tease the folks for
a new display that'll be on our route this year.
But Bright Night's basically runs from Thanksgiving to Christmas Eve,
and we're open. We do Friday, Saturday, Sunday leading all
(08:11):
the way up until the week of Christmas, and then
that whole week leading up to Christmas Eve. We're open.
But it's a twenty to twenty five minute drive through
Christmas light display experience like what you would see at
Zoos or other parks. And it's only a couple years old,
but it's made some tremendous growth here in the last
couple of years.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
And so I've got to plug a thing that we're
doing a joint venture between Nutrient in the fair grounds,
yes for Bright Nights. So if you have a group
out there that thinks you can sing a Christmas carol,
you don't have to be good at it, you just
have to have a spirit. Right, But if you contact
Troy at the Fair office. We're going to be Our
goal is at least on the weekends, at least on
(08:48):
Fridays and Saturdays. We're gonna encourage groups to come out
and carol on the Nutrient Plaza stage. And we will
pay their groups one hundred dollars an hour to carol.
So if they're here for the whole night, that's three hours.
So it's better than a car wash. And I know
I had somebody stop me out of the Clear Blue.
I don't even know how they knew about it, but
they were with a volleyball team and said, now, we're
(09:11):
not a choir, but can our volleyball team come in saying,
and I said, go.
Speaker 2 (09:14):
Talk to Troy, but I'm pretty sure the answers yes.
And so we really do want to encourage.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
If anybody you know wants to come out have some
fun little fundraiser for their four age club or their
their sports team or whatever it is, or their choir.
It could be a choir, that'd be great. But Christmas Carols,
it's all about having fun and spirit right.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Here exactly right, and we have really the perfect space
for those groups to perform. That's it's already smack dab
on our route. The Nutrient Plaza stage that is just
west or just behind the grand stands is where they're
going to be performing. And we've got power and everything
right there, and you have the ability to light that
stage up or dim it down if you want to.
So kind of a cool experience. So I hope folks
(09:55):
take or groups take advantage of that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
I do too, and that's why you know we want
to plug in. We'll start figure around ways to get
that word out. But it'd be fun if we haven't
booked every weekend, and because I think it just adds
to the experience. The lights are really cool, but just
having some live Christmas carolers like we used to do
in the old days, where you just get I could remember.
So I know I'm older than dirt, you can tell
me that.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All the time.
Speaker 1 (10:18):
But I remember when we just get all the kids
in the neighborhood and we'd like go carol for two
or three blocks and just knock on doors and start
singing carols. And I doubt that we sounded very good,
but everybody seemed to enjoy it and was part of Christmas.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
So hopefully we'll bring some of that fun to bright Nights.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
This year, so I'm looking forward to it. And yeah,
just in case people are listening right now and they
are potentially involved in a group and want to contact
me directly, the number two call to contact me is
four one nine two two eight seven one four one.
Speaker 1 (10:51):
And if that doesn't work, let me know. I'll get
you his persontal cell phone. No, I would not do that.
Speaker 2 (10:55):
I would.
Speaker 1 (10:56):
That's our Hey, So one last thing before we let
you go, because I know you're a little bit busy.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Got one more day to work.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
Yep, one more day until next year's fair.
Speaker 1 (11:03):
That's right, So let's talk about next year's fair. It's
the one and seventy fifth. I'm assuming they'll be like
cake and punch and stuff for What do you.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
Got planned for next year? Yeah? Maybe some more dervs.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
No, we are very excited about this historic landmark for
our fair, the one hundred and seventy fifth anniversary of
the Allen County Fair. The dates are August fifteenth through
the twenty third, twenty twenty five, and we have already
begun planning multiple special activities, events, mementos just to just
(11:38):
to really put a little special cap on this fair
and really thank the folks that have supported us over
the years and also give them an enhanced experience of
what we already already do offer the other eight nine
days of the fair.
Speaker 2 (11:53):
So I'm pretty.
Speaker 1 (11:53):
Excited just looking forward to because I know, I know
you've got some surprises up your sleeves and I think
people are to get enjoy next year's fair.
Speaker 2 (12:01):
And congratulations on a great fair this year.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Hey Russ, thank you so much and for all of
your support. I tell you what, We've got nothing but
fantastic feedback on these podcasts and I'm looking forward to
seeing these really take off in the future.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
Thanks. We'll do it again next year. And that's going
to be a rap for this year for ACF. Four
to one one from the Allen County Fair.
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