Florida Fair News
Florida State Fair announces Assistant Manager, Michael Rogalsky
The Florida State Fair adds an Assistant Manager to their team. Michael Rogalsky has relocated “back home” to Plant City from Gainesville where he most recently served as the Executive Director of the Flori- da FFA Foundation. While there, he was responsible for the rebuilding and operation of the Florida FFA Leadership Training Center in Haines City, a 60 sleeping room retreat and conference facility with over 20,000 square feet of meeting and event space. He was also responsible for building relationships
and securing the financial resources for the 18,000 student member organization. Prior to FFA, Michael served as the Leadership Programs Coordinator, Event Manager and Director of Field Services for the Florida Farm Bureau Federa- tion, serving the over 147,000 member families. Michael is a graduate of the University of Florida and holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Event and Venue Management. He
has a strong background in managing various events and venues having served as an Event Coordinator and Security Chief for the Stephen C. O’Connell Center on UF’s Campus and spending over a year working on the Convention Ser- vices Team with the Tampa Convention Center while in college. Michael also works with the National FFA Organization executing the arena operations for the National FFA Convention, attended by nearly 70,000 in Indianapolis each year. “I am very excited to learn more about the fair industry and continue to build the Florida State Fair to be the best State
Fair in the nation. We have a great team in place and I am glad to be a part of it”, Rogalsky said. He will be working alongside the Florida State Fair Executive Director on all aspects of operations of the Florida State Fair and Fairgrounds. Michael is a product of FFA and showing livestock at the Florida State Fair and Florida Strawberry Festival. He is a grad- uate of Durant High School in Plant City and served as the Florida FFA State Secretary from 2006-2007. Michael can be reached at
Michael.Rogalsky@
floridastatefair.com or 813-627-4224.
THE PENSACOLA INTERSTATE FAIR IS BLESSED!!!
All of the usual preparations and excitement was in oper-
ation for the opening of the 2018 Pensacola Interstate Fair, October 19th through the 28th. There is nothing like the weeks before when, as a fair manager, you are looking ahead for a good report on your weather Apps. All looked favorable except for a low pressure system down in the lower Carribean which only had a 20% chance of develop- ing into anything. All was proceeding as nor- mal with plans for a great Fair. The exhibits were all being set up. The concessionaires were arriving on sched- ule. The Reithoffer Mid- way was arriving with their usual spectacular midway and the enter- tainment was signed up and proceeding accord- ingly. All was well!!! Suddenly excitement turned into “OMG” now
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that the small low pres- sure system has devel- oped into a major hurri- cane and it's predicted to hit the Northwest Florida coast. Nothing now to do but PRAY, PRAY, PRAY. God blessed us and at the last minute the hurri- cane took a slight turn to the east and Pen- sacola was spared the devastating disaster that struck Panama City. Pensacola received only very mild winds and small amounts of rain. With sadness and concern for our neighbors, it was evi-
dent everything was well as the 2018 Fair opened with a special Dollar Day promotion which saw a record crowd flood our gate. With the exceptions of three days of rain, the Fair was a great success. The entertainment line- up ,all free with admission, was Sugar Ray, Craig Camp- bell, High Valley, Moccasin Creek , Elvis Tribute Show, Dusty Sanderson, White Tie Rock Ensemble, Eudora Farms, Swifty Swine Show and the ever popular AG- VENTURE BARN. Reithoffer Midway was ever present with their spectacular completely LED lighted Midway of 62 rides and attractions. We're so thankful for a successful 2018 Fair and we now
move forward to planning the 2019 Fair October 17th through 27th. “GOD IS GOOD”
FAIRCRACKER-SPRING 2019
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