Every year the Grand Forks and District Fall Fair has to be set up and then taken down because there is no permanent spot for it to be held.
Les Braden, president of the Fall Fair Society, is hoping to find a permanent spot, and has asked the city to look into it.
Braden says that people are tired of helping to put up the fair knowing that it will be later torn down and forced to put it up again the next year.
“I don’t want that,” Braden says.
What he would like to see is a venue that includes a community hall and a horse track, and have it in a permanent place.
“I want it to be a big community effort,” Braden says. “All those types of things that could go on and that could bring in some revenue to the town if they could give us one place that we could start working on.”
Braden says that there are others who like the idea.
“The horse club themselves would like to get in closer to town,” he says, so that during events people driving by could see that there’s something going on.
Braden says that in cases such as the Calgary Stampede or the PNE in Vancouver, the venues are all located in the city themselves, which helps to bring people in.
“They are the ones that are successful, have been successful,” he says and hopes to use them as inspiration for the Fall Fair in Grand Forks. Braden is also hoping to have miniature chuck wagons, which are pulled by miniature horses and race, for the fall fair.
“People just fall in love with them,” he says. “They’re only 30 inches high, a tabletop which is usually 32 inches is taller than them.”
This year’s fall fair is set for Sept. 10 and 11.