Changes to Entrances at 2014 Clark County Fair, Part 2
Thursday, July 31st, 2014 -- 1:42 PM
-With the Clark County Fair happening next week, those of you that will be attending will notice a slight change as you come to the fair.The main entrance to the fairgrounds off of Highway 10 will be closed to all vehicle traffic, everyone will need to use the south gate to enter, which is off of Rock Road, and the east gate will only be an exit.
Jim Smagacz, of the Clark County Forestry and Parks Department, talked about the simple explanation as to why they've made the change.
Jim said, "For years we've know its been a traffic hazard. There's a lot of congestion right on Highway 10 and sometimes traffic is backed up a ways down Highway 10. The last two springs we've had some major black top damage to the entrance way. Right now, there wasn't money budgeted to fix it, so that's why we changed it to the south. It had been talked about the last couple years ever since the Boon subdivision was put in, but this actually gave us a very good reason and a necessary reason to do it now."
The main entrance off of Highway 10 is closed to traffic, but there will be someone there taking tickets for people that want to walk in at that entrance.
"All vehicles have to come in the south entrance," said Jim. "The fair board will have a person taking tickets so you can walk in the Highway 10 entrance and also the Fairgrounds Avenue entrance, but it will be walking traffic only."
The Clark County Fair is August 6th through the 10th.
Feel free to contact us with questions and/or comments.