Fair Breaks Records For Attendance
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
A few more people are coming to the Arkansas
State Fair so far this year.
Fair general manager Jim Pledger says today that attendance is
up slightly through opening weekend, judging by the latest numbers
available.
The fair offers everything from fried Oreo cookies to cattle
judging competitions to stomach-turning rides and a rodeo. The fair
opened in Little Rock on Friday and runs through this Sunday.
Attendance Friday was 41,068; Saturday was
51,019 and Sunday brought in 47,614. Pledger says
the three-day total of 139,701 was up about 2,600
people from last year`s opening weekend.
Even the weather this year is holding up all right. Pledger says
the fairgrounds have NOT had significant rain since the fair
opened.
