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Fair Recap 2008

  • Dates - September 5-14, 2008 
  • Theme - We've Got a Good Thing Growing 
  • Attendance - 242,159 (Up 3.04%)
  • Revenue (including ticket sales, booth rentals, food vendor and carnival commissions, livestock entries, sponsorships, etc.) - $TBD
  • Vendors - 210 (Commercial), 40 (Food) 

Number of Exhibits

DepartmentOpenYouth
4H / FFA Demonstrations56 
Antique Machinery108 
Baking433418
Beef Cattle459136
Bees / Honey / Eggs71 57 
Cats / Dogs / Pocket PetsNANA
Cereals / Forage Crops7915
Crafts / Hobbies679 1,884 
Creature Feature27 79 
Dairy Cattle688
Fine Arts131 86 
Floral456116
Floral (Dahlias)65117
Food Preservation362 168 
Goats / Pygmy Goats814350
Grange / 4-H Educ. Booths24 20 
Horses / Longears672744
Horticulture868388
Llamas29860
Photography558 466 
Poultry / Pigeons303207
Rabbits321 411 
Sewing1,104 219 
Sheep326263
Swine0173
Wine / Beer73 
Wool6112
TOTAL EXHIBITS:8,9466,354
Compared to 2007Up 4.79%Down 6.78%

Premium Point Values

  • Adult - 22.5 cents each
  • Youth - 22.5 cents each

New Food Vendors

Berryhills Concessions (gyros), Island Noodles, Pennsylvania Dutch Funnel Cakes, Taste of India, and Taste of Italy.

New Commercial Vendors

Advanced Window Fashions (home improvement), Aho Construction (homes), Allwin Products (clothing), Anderson Ink (personalized gifts), Aspen Air LLC (environmental cleaning equipment),  At Home America (home decor), Chane Enterprises (cosmetics), Designs by Lisa (artist), Digital Media Solutions (satellite, dish TV), Draper Tractor Parts (automotive), Express Yourself (candles), Florian Ratchet Cut (tools), FLP Softub Inc. (hot tubs), Fortress Security (security sytems), Gi Gi Enterprises (rescue tape), Golf Savings Bank (financial), Granite Transformations (home improvement), Guttertopper NW (rain gutters), Hawn Smith (green screen technology), JP Enterprises (remote control racetrack), K Diamond K Guest Ranch (vacations), Knight Wall Systems (home improvement), LE Imports (detox foot pads), Metal Graphics LLC (nostalgic metal signs), Miche Handbags (purses), Rent Rite Inc. (Plotmaster planting machine), Root Builders Inc. (bio tech nutrients), Rose Garden (birch roses), Samco Inc. (water crafts), Silver Mountain Resort (recreation), Spokane Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention (services), Spokane Chimney and Fireplace (fireplaces), Steel Structures America (buildings), Travel On Motor Company (dirt bikes, motorcycles), USA Shows Fairs.com (The Web back support device), Videomatic (movie rentals), Wyndham Corporation (vacation packages), and Zambalha Gifts (imports).

Fair Ambassadors

The Interstate Fair selected four young adults to serve as the 2008 Fair Ambassadors. Selected were Madolyn Bayle (Spokane Community College), Jeannette Thompson (West Valley High School), Angela Wolfe (Deer Park Home Link), and Emma Wolfe (Deer Park Home Link). The Ambassador's Award, given to any one, any exhibit, or any booth was awarded to the El Katif Food Booth in 2008.

Special Award Winners

Each year the Fair gives five outstanding achievement awards to exhibitors at the Spokane County Interstate Fair for their efforts. This year's Red, White and Blue Award winners were

  • Country Homes Power Equipment (Outside Commercial)
  • Advanced Window Fashions (Auxiliary Building Commercial)
  • Eastern Washington University (Bay 1 Commercial)
  • Pennsylvania Dutch Funnel Cakes (Portable Food Booth)
  • Spokane Valley Kiwanis (Permanent Structure Food)

The Fair also gave a special award to the food or commercial booth that tied into this year's Fair Theme (We've Got a Good Thing Growing) most closely. This year's award was given to Alpine College (Commercial). Congratulations.

Washington State Fair Commission Black & White Award

Each year the Fair is visited by a State Fair Commissioner who has the awesome responsibility to select one or two outstanding exhibit(s) at the Fair. This year's winners were the Grange Booth Department (Bonnie and Tom Reed) and the Inland Empire Beekeepers Association booth.