THE ALARMING NEWS that we could lose our Boonville-based County Fair has us all thinking about strategies to make up the lost state subsidy, an amount of some $200,000 a year. Our first thought was to put Dave Evans of the Navarro Store together with Philo’s serially triumphant entrepreneur, John Scharffenberger, to produce one or two big name concerts at the Boonville Fairgrounds that combine music and Mendocino County wines. Dave Evans has the rock and roll contacts and Scharffenberger has the gift of turning everything he touches to unalloyed gold, and… Not that large-scale events are easy to pull off, but there are people who can do it. Maybe the couple who produce the annual, and wildly successful, reggae event at the Fairgrounds could be persuaded (for the right money) to produce a second annual event. Just thinking out loud here, but this County fairly teems with smart, creative people who might be tapped to pull the Fair out of the fire.
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