FLORIDA FAIR NEWS


Volusia County Fair


Deggeller Attrac- tions have packed their show and are headed to winter quarters. The con- cessionaires are all headed out to


the four corners on their way home and we are truly excited that we had another Volu- sia County Fair & Youth Show. Executive Director, David Viers, said “We do our advanced sales through the Wal- green’s Corner Box office and Greg Bean handles that for us. We were up 89% on advance ticket sales this year and that in- cludes both gate and wrist band ride brace- lets. We open on a Thursday and going into the following Wednesday we the Fair was up a whopping 28% then weather came in rain, cold, wind and virtually erased our Wednesday-Saturday leaving our last Sun- day to good weather. We would wind up down 10% against 2012 and hosted 178, 000 guests on the Fairgrounds. Our live- stock sales were down by 3% with total sales of $161, 191 compared with 2012. The livestock exhibits were off by 3% but our competitive exhibits were up 6% with 2,989


exhibitors Our “Celebrating 500


Years of Florida History” theme was carried through with our creative arts and school displays. David also was proud to say that


there


were some very distinguished visitors to the Fair this year and they are so much appre- ciated: Florida Agriculture Commissioner – Adam


Putnam District 27 State Representative David


Santiago NICA Executive Director Alta Mosley Clay County Fair Manager Pete Sutton


and a group from his Fair Lake County Fair Managers Happy & Leah Norris Central Florida Fair - Stacy Redditt New Osceola County


Fair Manager


Miranda Muir Senior Day which takes place on Tues-


day each year of the Fair; seniors 55+ get in to the Fair for $6.00 until 7:00 P.M. We open the gates at 11:00 A.M. but rides do not open until 5:00 P.M. We always book some headline entertainment for them. This year we had the Original Drifters and the Platters, each one doing 45 minutes at each show.


Since the show was now an


hour and a half we had a 3 P.M. and 7 P.M. show. Our Arena seats 3,000 and our 3 P.M. show had standing room only with over 3,000 people. The 7 P.M. show had 2,500 attendees.


Our other two concerts were Casey


James and Diamond Rio, both did very well.


Along with the Sea Lion Splash, Kandu


Magic, Dennis Lee, Josh Knotts Extreme Illusions, Rust & Flames Blacksmith dem- onstrations, GASCAR, Great American Petting Zoo, Sally Ann & Agventure land as well as Rock-it-the-Robot we offered a healthy dose of family


fun daily. The


Weekend Antique Tractor Parade is always fun and the drivers have the biggest smiles on their faces as they pass by the crowd. David said that the Fair had its first ever


Clarion/Volusia County Fair Fly in for pri- vate pilots at the local airport with shuttle service to the hotel and then the Fair along with gate tickets and room rates etc. at the Clarion Hotel and Convention Center in Deland. The Fair also had a fly over while Dennis


Lee sang the National Anthem to celebrate Veteran’s Day. If you get text on your phone and want to


keep up with what events are going on and Fair announcements then you can keep up on your phone by texting volusiafair to 72727. You will receive text messages about 3-4 times each month. You can eas- ily opt out later. David adds “We are looking forward to the 2014 Volusia County Fair, the 70th Edi- tion of the South’s Greatest County Fair November 6-16. We can almost see the concessionaires and Deggeller Attractions trucks headed back in our direction” We sincerely hope each of you have a


fantastic Fair Season & look forward to seeing you at the Florida Fed/Zone II meet- ing in Naples in May.


Commissioner of Agriculture


Adam Putnam visits Volusia County Farm Bureau Executive Director Bill Hester


David Viers congratulates Volusia County Fair Queen


Billy Jones, the next Board President and current Fair Board Director for the Volusia County Fair, is driving an antique tractor in the An- tique Tractor Parade that takes place each Saturday and Sunday of the Fair at 3 pm.


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