Times are changing

I wasn’t sure what to expect when a friend, coincidentally who I got to know through 4-H, asked me to come listen in on the annual lease agreement meeting between the Boone County Fair Board and Boone County Supervisors last week. What drew us to this casual sit-down? The discussion of allowing the Fair Board to serve alcohol during the annual fair, a controversial debate that’s been going on for quite some time. 

Our new freedom of being the magic age of 21 really didn’t factor into why we attended, we wanted to hear the game plan, opinions, and because we plan on sticking around, we want to see the fair grow into what we all know it can be. 

Members of the Fair Board said it themselves, times are changing and its time to adapt. I’ll be the first to tell you that you don’t need alcohol to have a good time, but I will also tell you it draws a crowd. 

I agree with points of view from both sides of this issue, but in the end I completely agree with the Fair Board’s efforts to grow the Boone County Fair. The County Supervisors passed a motion to allow alcohol sales and consumption in three designated areas including the pit area of the grandstand, one portion of the main area of the grandstand and an area next to the Leonard Good Stage. 

“Change” used to be a word I discouraged at a time in my life where I felt like nothing was staying the same. But as I’ve gotten older and find myself making “adult decisions”, as I like to call them, I’ve learned that change is the only way new things can happen. I am looking forward to what this new opportunity has in store for the fair and I hope that you are, too! 

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