Big rigs popular Demolition derbies and big, modified tractor pulls are crowd pleasers. Armstrong, Wayne County Fair's director, says the local tractor pull will be shifted to Monday afternoon this year, and four nights will be devoted to major entertainment. No contracts have been let, but negotiations are going on with Sha Na Na, Sawyer Brown, Terri Clark and Toby Keith. In 1997 Wayne fair had 113,000 paid admissions, the third-highest in its history. The fair is 149 years old this season.
Weather is very important to any fair's success.
Two years ago Wayne had a heavy rain that canceled tractor pulls. Fairground buildings still show the high-water mark from a 1969 flood. The Summit County Fair in Tallmadge experienced one extremely hot day last year. The fair list, produced by the Agriculture Department and fair managers, always dates Summit's fair from the harness racing on Sunday night at Northfield Park to the end of the fair at the Tallmadge fairgrounds. Howard L. Call of Munroe Falls, Summit Fair manager, completed his presidency of the Ohio Fair Managers Association at the Columbus Convention Center.