Message from


Lisa Hinton, Executive Director 12802 Balm Boyette Road Riverview, Florida 33579


Phone: 813-763-0161 Fax: 888-233-1501


lisahinton@floridafairs.org www.floridafairs.org


President Dan West


Florida Federation of Fairs & Livestock Shows, Inc. Manatee County Fair


Mailing Address and Location: 1402 14th Ave W Palmetto, FL 34221


Phone: 941-722-1639 Fax: 941-722-5054 Email: dwest@manateecountyfair.com


the Executive Director It’s been a great Summer for the Federation – we had a fantastic Summer Workshop in Palmetto hosted by the Manatee County Fair. The staff and Board definitely rolled


out the red carpet to make it a memorable event! If you haven’t been to Summer Workshop you should think about it for next year. It is a chance to really get to meet and talk to people from other Fairs in a very relaxed, infor- mal atmosphere.


We also had another great Fair trip – Fair Trip 2012! We visited 3 New Eng- land Fairs in 4 days and brought back a multitude of new ideas. You REALLY should think about joining us next year – wherever we go, I can assure you, you will get lots of new ideas and have a blast!


Florida Federation of Fairs & Livestock Shows, Inc. Board of Directors


OFFICERS President


Dan West, Manatee County Fair First Vice President


Gayle Hart, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair Second Vice President


Rick Vymlatil, South Florida Fair Secretary-Treasurer


Tom Umiker, Greater Hillsborough County Fair Immediate Past President


C.E. “Happy” Norris, Lake County Fair DIRECTORS


Felecia Frenkel Chivington Pensacola Interstate Fair


Wanda Jones, Columbia County Fair


Albert Montes, Miami-Dade County Fair & Expo Bill Olson, Greater Jacksonville Agricultural Fair Charles Pesano, Florida State Fair Dawn Rowe, Osceola County Fair Pete Sutton, Clay County Fair Jim Ward, Pasco County Fair


ASSOCIATE DIRECTORS


Vicki Oler-Senecal, Oler Productions Mark Sparks, Triangle Talent


HONORARY DIRECTORS Danny Raulerson


Florida Dept. of Agriculture, Farmers Market Division


Frankie Hall Florida Farm Bureau


The opinions expressed in this newsletter are by those authors writing the articles and are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the opinions or policies of the Florida Federation of Fairs and Livestock Shows, Inc. The Florida Federation of Fairs and Livestock Shows, Inc. is not responsible for the accuracy of any of the infor- mation supplied by the authors, nor does it take on any responsibil- ity or liability for its content.


2 Meeting Notice


The Florida Federation of Fairs Board of Directors will meet on Friday, Dec 7th at 9:00 am at the Comfort Inn & Suites, Eustis, FL.


This year’s Annual Directory has been published and distributed. A special thanks to Doris Graska – she spent a tremendous amount of time editing the Directory to make sure it was right. Thanks also to Rita DeMier for doing the layout for the cover with this year’s Photo Contest winners. The Directory wouldn’t have happened without help from both of you!


Thanks to a suggestion made at Summer Workshop, we are now sharing the results of all the questions you send in with all our Fairs. Got something on your mind? Wonder how other Fairs are handling it? Send in your question and we will send it out to all our Florida Fairs for their response!


Be sure to mark your calendars for the 2013 Convention – May 16 – 18th in Naples! We will be at the Waldorf Astoria this year - it is a beautiful facility and a great location for the convention. The Golf Tournament will be AWE- SOME as well - you won’t want to miss it – May 15th!


If there is anything I can do for you – please don’t hesitate to give me a call and thanks again for all your support!


Don’t forget –YOU are the Federation and our organization is here to serve you!


Sincerely, Lisa Hinton, Executive Director, CFE 2013 Convention – Mark Your Calendar


The 2013 Florida Federation of Fairs Convention will be held at The Waldorf Astoria in Naples, Florida. Be sure to mark your calendars for May 16 – 18, 2013 and don’t forget the Golf Tournament on Wednesday, May 15th.


IAFE Zone II Meeting


The IAFE Zone II Meeting will again be held in conjunction with the Florida Federation of Fairs Annual Convention. We look forward to welcoming our Zone II guests back and look forward to the opportunity to broaden our net- working scope with other Fairs from our Zone.


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