WHAT'S A FAIR BOOSTER?
The Washington County Fairground Boosters (aka Fair Boosters) are a 501-(c)-3 Corporation that is celebrating it's 61st year as a non-profit volunteer organization, whose primary purpose is to promote and support the Washington County Annual Fair!
WHEN AND WHERE DO THE FAIR BOOSTERS MEET?
THE FAIR BOOSTERS MEET ON THE FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EACH MONTH WITH OUR NEXT MEETING AT 7:00 - 9:00 PM, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 6th, 2012, HELD IN THE CLOVERLEAF BUILDING AT THE WASHINGTON COUNTY FAIR COMPLEX (LOCATED AT 873 NE 34TH AVE., HILLSBORO, OR - LOCATED JUST SOUTH OF THE HILLSBORO AIRPORT) ... SEE YOU THERE !
Please come join the Fair Boosters at their next meeting and help be a part of this years Fair Booster events. If you have other Booster related photos which you wish to share, please forward them via e-mail to: fairboosters@fairboosters.com OR bring them to our next regular Fair Booster meeting held at the Washington County Fair Complex in the Cloverleaf Building every first Wednesday of each month 7:00PM - 9:00PM. [Note: Parking is available at the Fair Complex's west parking lot.]
Also, visit our NEW "Fair History" page (see above tab) for information regarding a book that the Fair Boosters are working on with a projected publication date of mid-d2012! Send in your old Fair & Rodeo photos and stories about the past Fairs to our Fair Booster Historian Inez Griffels as indicated on that page.
NOTICES:
1) Our current 2012 Fair Boosters Officers are as follows:
- Lyle Spiesschaert - President
- Matt Pihl - Vice President
- Sheila Day - Secretary
- Dave Russell - Treasurer
[ *Note: If you wish to contact any of our 2012 Fair Boosters officers please click on the "Contact Us" tab above for a direct link to their respective e-mail addresses.]
2) The next meeting of the Washington County Fairground Advisory Committee (FAC) will be held on Tuesday, June 26th, 2012, at 11:30-1:30 PM in the Cloverleaf Building at the Washington County Fair Complex, Hillsboro, OR (see link for meeting info here) .
The FAC is a relatively new County entity (originally appointed/seated in Sept. 2010) which is the by-product of the Board of Commissioners (BOC) and the last Fair Board, which mutually agreed to a Memo of Understanding (MOU), which now allows the FAC to circumvent the State mandated legal authority of the Fair Board and make recommendations directly to the BOC regarding the Fair Complex's capital improvements, building maintenance and the Fair Complex's "Master Plan" built-out. This recent transfer of legal authority of the oversight of the development and management of the Fair Complex from the Fair Board to other County Departments and the FAC, which were previously the "exclusive management" responsibility of the Fair Board, as per ORS 565.210, is of great concern to many of those who value this treasured public property for use by current and future generations of Washington County citizens. The FAC committee will now attempt to recommend to the BOC how WE "build-out" OUR Washington County Fair Complex towards the Fair Complex's "Master Plan", which was approved by the BOC and their Fairgrounds Task Force which the BOC had assembled to address that same purpose back in 2007-2008.
Please note that there is an opportunity at each FAC meeting to address your public comment regarding the Fair Complex "Master Plan", during the public comment period at the end of each FAC meeting!
3) The Washington County Board of Commissioners (BOC) recently re-appointed all four (4 ea.) members of the Fairgrounds Advisory Committee (FAC) whose terms were expiring on 12/31/2011 at the 11/22/11 BOC meeting. There was only one new applicant submitted for the four (4) open FAC positions. The terms of these four (4) re-appointed FAC members will run for two (2) years, expiring again 12/31/14.
The Fair Advisory Committee's current members are as follows:
- Andy Duyck (Ex-officio position) - Current BOC Chairman (2 year term - Expires 12/31/12)
- Larry Pederson (FAC Chairman) - Property/Land Developer (2 year term - Expires 12/31/12)
- Jerry Willey - Mayor of City of Hillsboro (2 year term - Expires 12/31/12)
- Don McCoun (Ex-officio position) - Current Fair Board President (No term - position rotates)
- *Nicole Berg (FAC Co-Chairman) - The Sunset Group Realtors (2 year term - Expires 12/31/13)
- *Jonathan Schlueter - Executive Director Westside Economic Alliance (2 year term - Expires 12/31/13)
- *David Villalpando - Univision (2 year term - Expires 12/31/13)
- *Cindy Phillips - Municipal attorney (2 year term - Expires 12/31/13)
- Open Position - (This FAC position is open until filled)
[ * Note: FAC members whose original terms expired on 12/31/11 were re-appointed to new 2 year terms. ]
4) Fair Boosters membership dues are due again on July 1, 2012. If you have not already paid your yearly Fair Boosters dues, please forward your check payment, payable to the "Washington County Fairground Boosters", and mail to P.O. Box 2679, Hillsboro, OR 97123. You can also bring your dues payment to the next Boosters monthly meeting. Remember you now have the option of joining the Fair Boosters with the following membership options; 1) Life Time Membership = $150 2) Family Membership = $15 / family (two adults and two children under 18 years of age) and 3) Single Membership = $10/person .
5) The "Washington County Fair History Book" is still in the works with the hope that it will be published later THIS YEAR 2012 ! The Boosters have been present at various Farmers Markets throughout Washington County last Summer, spreading the word about the history book and the Annual Fair. Inez Griffels and Judy Palumbo have been dutifully working on crafting the Fair History Book and we will start marketing the Fair History Book again in mid-2012, presenting the book on local Portland media sources as well. Don't forget to forward and share your old Fair photos and stories with Inez Griffels, our Fair Boosters Historian (see our Contact page above).
♦ PLEASE SEE OUR FAIR BOOSTERS CALENDAR "HI-LITES" BELOW FOR UPCOMING EVENTS !!! ♦