“FAIR”LY IMPORTANT MATTERS continued……...………………..…………………. Fair Visits
Don’t Forget! Entry Deadline—March 1, 2012 Ag & Competitive Exhibit Awards Program
The Agricultural Awards program will consist of competi-
tion among Fairs in 6 categories. The participating Fairs will be divided into five divisions according to attendance. Plaques will be awarded, one for each category in each division. CATEGORIES: Agriculture 1. What was newly established or developed at your Fair to promote agriculture. 2. Non-fair agricultural event or program. 3. Program designed to correct an issue or problem re- lated to a competitive or non-competitive agriculture pro- gram. 4. Agricultural photo. CATEGORIES: Competitive Events 5 . New or unique class of competitive exhibits 6. Competitive exhibit display photo series.
HALL OF FAME AND ASSOCIATE OF YEAR NOMINATIONS Each year the Florida Federation of Fairs honors individuals that have
had an impact on our industry and our Association through the Hall of Fame Award and the Associate of the Year Award. These prestigious awards are presented at the Annual Convention. We ask your help in nominating deserving individuals for these awards.
Nomination forms may be requested from the Federation office at lisahin-
ton@floridafairs.org. The deadline for nominations is March 1, 2012.
Jeanne Keaton, Past President of the Florida Federation of
Fairs visits with the Belle City Amusement group during her trip to the Nebraska State Fair. Left to right—Charles Panacek, Miss Mary (Panacek), Jeanne, and Nick Viscomi.
By Jeanne Keaton I had a great time meeting new friends and visiting old friends
this summer while attending the Orange County Fair in Los An- geles and Nebraska State Fair. LA was a new experience for me. The traffic is unreal and it certainly is a different atmos- phere than we are used too. I arrived on the last weekend so there were no animal displays but they had beautiful gardens of both fruits and vegetable and landscaping foliage. I have never seen so many booths in one Fair in my life. Now Nebraska was more like home for me. Small town and
BIG fairgrounds. The NSF relocated to a new grounds 2 years ago and is absolutely beautiful. I don’t think I have ever seen so many llamas and sheep in one place before. Beautiful build- ings and beautiful displays filled the 200 acre site. It was nice to visit with the Belle City group and we had lots of fun. Looking forward to our “Fall Fair Season” and for those get-
ting ready….. best of weather to you all. Looking forward to Florida visits!!!
Federation Traveling Exhibits Available Register Now For Spring Fairs
The Federation has numerous traveling exhibits that can be utilized by Fairs to help meet Chapter 616 criteria and to help educate the public about agricul- ture. These are great exhibits and are provided at minimal costs to our Federation Fairs.
Reservation forms can be found on the web-site un- der “Traveling Exhibits.” Reservations will not be accepted until forms are received with payment. Forms need to be filled out and returned to Jeanne Keaton as soon as possible.
Information on this program can be found on our web-site at
www.floridafairs.org under Traveling Ex- hibits in the left hand column.
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