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Fair Sets All Time Record
07/31/07 WGC
If you attended this year’s Meade County Fair and had the
thought “theirs seems like more people here,” your
intuition was correct. The 2007 Meade County Fair
shattered several records during the course of the week
including the overall attendance of gate.
According to Fair Manager David Pace, the week’s total
gate attendance was 41,879 which is a 388 increase from
last year’s 41,491. The attendance records were broken
Sunday through Wednesday consecutively. The daily gate
attendance numbers were:
Sunday 1,992*
Monday 4,346*
Tuesday 5,910*
Wednesday 5,860*
Thursday 7,357
Friday 4,158
Saturday 12,256*
*Record crowd
The attendance on Thursday was the
second largest crowd to come to the fair, the record for
that day is 7,576 set in 2005. Pace said the fair
continues to be a popular event not just for Meade County
but across the region as well. For a view of the
attendance of the past 11 years, visit of Meade County
Fair Section by clicking here.
It is just 363 days until the 2008 Meade County Fair!
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