The 2017 Iowa State Fair set a new attendance record. Gary Slater is the fair’s C-E-O.
The 2017 Iowa State Fair attracted nearly 13-thousand more visitors than it did in 2015. 2015 is the year the previous attendance record of a little more than one-point-one MILLION was set. Slater says this year’s 11-day-long fair was held during “nearly perfect days for an August in Iowa.”
More than 40-thousand ribbons were handed out during the fair’s livestock shows, its unique contests and in more than 900 different classes in the food competition.
The State Fair Midway along with the stage in the Grandstand are targeted for renovations now that the 2017 fair is over. Slater has been the State Fair’s top executive for 17 years.
