Complications associated with COVID-19 spur officials to decide event unfeasible
The Virginia Farm Bureau board of directors recently announced the 2020 State Fair of Virginia has been canceled. However, a modified State Fair 4-H Livestock Show is planned.
“This was a difficult decision, but safety is our number one priority,” said Executive Director Marlene Jolliffe. “We’ve spent months developing plans and scenarios that would allow us to still host the fair this year, but with the ever-changing, unpredictable COVID-19 situation, we just couldn’t make it work.”
The State Fair of Virginia is an annual event that nurtures, preserves and celebrates the best of Virginia’s past, present and future through scholarship initiatives, creative programming and a focus on the commonwealth’s agriculture and natural resources industries. In 2019, nearly 245,000 people attended…
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