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| Record Turnout For The Fair | ||
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| By Vernon Robison Moapa Valley Progress Submitted April 16, 2008 The Clark County Fair and Rodeo came to town last week and brought record crowds with it. Total attendance at this year’s fair was 83.614 people. “It was our biggest turnout ever,” said Fair Manager, Todd Robison. The highest previous attendance record was around 80,000 people, Robison said. Last year’s attendance was 73.174. Robison speculated that a slow economy was a contributing factor to the high turnout. “It seems like in years when the |
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economy struggles, we do well,” he said. “I think that, with fuel prices being so high, a lot of people stayed close to home and made this their big spring outing with the family." Saturday and Sunday, traditionally the biggest attendance days of the fair did not disappoint this year. Saturday saw about 28,000 people at the fair, with about 24,000 coming on Sunday. The fairgrounds seemed packed with people on Saturday especially. This is because many people came in the early morning and stayed throughout the whole day, Robison said. “Usually we see a point around midday when the morning crowd goes home and an afternoon crowd comes in,” Robison said. “But this year, a lot of the morning crowd stuck around.” This, undoubtedly, made the vendors happy. “I think that they did very, very well this year,” Robison agreed. | ||
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The big surprise was the high attendance numbers on Thursday and Friday. Thursday is usually a slower day, but this year it saw a good sized crowd, Robison said. “And Friday was a phenomenal day!” Robison said. “Much bigger than usual.” Traffic volume on the State Highway into town was high on Saturday and Sunday, as would be expected. But the traffic flow moved quickly through the intersections at Whipple and Hardy. “Until we have a bigger road into the valley, there will be traffic,” Robison said. “But we have been looking at ways to expedite the flow of traffic and keep the southbound traffic moving. We kept things moving through the intersections better this year than ever.” | |
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