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By Dena Martin
The Times 

Fairgrounds Committee To Ask For More Time

 

September 21, 2017

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Beau Sabin (inside) and Rick Nicely dismantled and moved this cabin to the Smith Hollow School House Museum. They would like the opportunity to restore the Waitsburg fairgrounds grandstands.

WAITSBURG – Do we see the fairgrounds as a historical site that we would like to maintain for the future or do we see it as an event and athletic site, but not necessarily historically important? That was the question posed by Fairgrounds Committee Chair Lane Hill at the opening of the committee's Sept. 12 meeting, which focused on whether the fairgrounds grandstands should be preserved or demolished.

After hearing a presentation from Rick Nicely of Pillars of Society Woodworks, LLC, who said he could restore the grandstands for just under $40,000, committee members agreed to request the counc...



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