MOSES LAKE – Grant County Fairgrounds said 2021 would be busy, at least after the first 3 months.
Fairgrounds director Jim McKiernan, the 2021 calendar is filling up.
“We have equestrian events from late March to September, and next year is no different,” McKiernan said Wednesday. “Almost every week of completion, Ardell (Pavillon) or Harwood (Pavillon), or both, are busy,” he says.
Based on the same number of participants, any of the pavilions can host equestrian events while meeting the social estating needs imposed through state officials to combat the coronavirus epidemic, he said.
The exhibition park is also expected to host occasions and there are plans to continue Cars Under the Stars, the behind-the-wheel drive series that began this year. Officials at the fairgrounds planned to sponsor a Day of the Dead birthday party. The Dead) on November 1, but the pandemic caused its cancellation and was postponed until 2021.
“We still don’t know exactly what it will look like,” he said.
Fairground officials also request events hosted through outdoor vendors. Opportunities come with vintage car shows and RV shows.
“Our purpose is to increase land use. There are 127 acres here,” McKiernan said.
Additional facilities will be installed at the southern end of the Exhibition Park as a component of an assignment that has also brought new lighting fixtures to the Moses Lake Roundup grounds. end of January.
“That’s what we expect, ” said McKiernan.
The design was designed through Musco Lighting in Oskaloosa, Iowa, and was built particularly for the terrain. Lighting fixtures will eliminate the darkness of the domain behind the rodeo arena, where most vendors settled at the Grant County Fair. The so-called southern box to use at other times of the year, McKiernan said. The option of using the box for the education of young sports teams was discussed.
The total allocation fee is $473,637, of which $281,000 is paid through an allocation of the state’s supplemental investment budget.
State Rep. Tom Dent of R-Moses Lake helped protect money, Grant County Director of Central Services Tom Gaines said in a past interview.
The effect of the pandemic is expected to continue on occasions that complement some of the interior spaces, such as birthday parties and quinceañeras. Many of the “celebration occasions” already scheduled for 2021 have been postponed as of this year, McKiernan said.