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Beautiful new dining hall needs a new
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March 12, 2012 |
 The
Boundary County Fairgrounds Dining Hall has
served this county well for years, but it looks
a lot better now, thanks in large part to Roy
Krohmer and the Friends of the Fair ... and it
deserves a new name more fitting a facility of
such import.
"Can you believe how great this looks?" asked
Marianne Duarte, one of the women who organized
last weekend's "Pack Rat Sale," the first
official event in the newly remodeled facility.
"Instead of looking at the tables, they looked
at the room!"
And well they should ... new insulation behind
the walls, new windows looking out. New recessed
lighting making it much brighter than it's ever
been, new floors, new walls, new decor.
It's still a dining hall, with a great kitchen,
but it is now so much more, thanks to the work
of the Friends of the Fair and the Fair Board,
who, with funds raised at last year's baked
goods auction, with private and unheralded
donations from people like Shawn Keough and Dan
Dinning, from the Noble family and from the
Idaho Forest Group, who raffled off a hot
chainsaw at the lawn mower races last year.
Together, they raised more than $9,000 for this
year's fair improvement project, and while
guests are going to enjoy it this year more than
most, the legacy is going to last for years.
Hence, Sandy Schempf is looking for a name for
the facility more fitting than "dining hall," as
it's much more than that now.
Nothing too outrageous; it's not a concert arena
or a mosh pit, a music hall, odeon or
ampitheatre ... nor even a theatre, for that
matter ... or even a theater.
"I just think it needs a more fitting name than
'dining hall,'" Sandy said.
Those with ideas for new names should send them
to
bcfair@boundarycountyid.org, or mail them to
Boundary County Fair, P.O. Box 3098, Bonners
Ferry, ID 83805.
The winning entry, judged by the members of the
fair board, will be announced on opening day of
this year's fair; Roy will make a new sign to go
over the door, and
www.newsbf.com
publisher Mike Weland will present $25 in cash
to the winner at the door of the chicken barn at
5 p.m. Friday, August 17.
The deadline for name entries is August 1, and
may the best, most appropriate and imaginative
name win! |
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