Thursday, October 20, 2011

Coastal Carolina Fair continues through Saturday

October 18, 2011

By Eddie Fitzgerald Freedom ENC

Besides hunting, the thing Mickey Tillman likes most is the county fair.
Tillman, president of the Craven County Jaycees, stood by a ticket booth Sunday afternoon admiring the growing crowds walking among the rides and games of the Coastal Carolina Agriculture Fair.
“There is something about the fall when there is the smell of food over the midway,” Tillman said.
Crowds have doubled this year compared to last year at the fairgrounds, located on U.S. 70 between Havelock and New Bern. On Saturday about 5,000 people came through the gates, not including children under five who got in free, Tillman said.
“It is not a record year (of attendance),” he said. “But it was one of the best Saturdays we have had.”
Tillman said he attributed the high attendance on “the excellent weather” that brought mild temperatures and sunny skies. On opening night the midways were muddy when rain moved in earlier in the day but the mud patches were filled in, and people came, he said.
A Duplin County couple Tillman talked to at the fair said by far it was one of the best fairs they have attended — professional and clean, he said.read more at:
http://www.havenews.com/news/fair-8958-county-tillman.html

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