The Lloyd Ex Fair celebrated a successful year, capping off its 120th anniversary.
While it’s still too early for concrete numbers of the event, they look promising.
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“We know we sold over 1,000 more wristbands in the pre-sale,” said Jackie Tomayer, general manager at the Lloydminster Agricultural Exhibition Association, noting she saw plenty of happy faces taking in the various fair offerings.
“I initially would say it was one of our best (fairs) we’ve ever had,” she said.
“We had very few issues that we dealt with. We just had a whole pile of happy people on the grounds and during all the offerings.”
She said the fair has continued to build on the history of the Lloyd Ex Fair.
“What it means to the Lloyd Ex is continuing to build on that tradition, continuing to build on the rural routes,” said Tomayer.
“There’s very few organizations that can say they’ve been around for 120 years and done things so successfully for that many years.”
This year saw some new and returning items at the fair.
“We brought even more agricultural offerings this year,” she said, noting a few items come to mind as personal highlights.
“I would say a couple that come to mind is our hobby horse competition,” she said.
“The stands were pretty full for that competition. It was just a new aspect of fair that anyone could participate in, which I loved.”
The poultry show also saw major success this year.
“Our poultry show doubled in numbers this year from last year,” said Tomayer. “That showed me there’s a real desire for that.”
The four-day event was capped by the return of a popular fair event.
“We brought a grandstand show back, and come firework time, it was packed,” she said. “The last kick on the drum happened and a firework went up in the sky.”
As plans begin for next year, Tomayer says one popular attraction will be
returning.
“I can confidently say monster trucks will be back next year,” she said.
“We’ll probably try another concert and see who we can find.”
Organizers are also looking to expand their agricultural offerings. She says they’re looking forward to the 121st fair next year, thanking those that participated this year.
“I just want to thank everyone for coming,” said Tomayer. “If you were a guest, if you were a volunteer, if you were a sponsor, our staff, everyone puts so much work into these four days.
“We are really proud of the fair we produced and really look forward to 121.”
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It was very disappointing no chuckwagons no demolition derby no cabaret and hardly any food vendors and such a disappointment with the layout you can try and say its bigger but its pretty easy to say that when the square footage of the layout is in a very weird shape definitely gonna tell others to go to kdays or Vermillion or Saskatoon it felt like highway robbery i feel bad for the parents that brought there kids and FYI they only pre sold that many tickets because we knew it was gonna be expensive and we can’t afford something like that