Fair Board Reviews 2018 County Performance

The Cheyenne County Fair Board met Monday night to review this year’s events. The overall opinion is the numbers are up from last year.

“Attendance was up,” said board member Anita Pennel.

She clarified some of the numbers are estimates. The ambiguity is because of how entrance to grandstand events included children under 12 at no charge. Pennel said 1,340 people attended the rodeo, up from 2017. She said final numbers are estimates based on taking the number of tickets sold and multiplying it by three as an average number of children to pass through the gates with adults.

“There’...