Board Approves New Site for Fair
Encouraged by a warm welcome from nearby Lake View Terrace homeowners, the San Fernando Valley Fair board voted Friday to move a scaled-down version of the annual fair to Hansen Dam.
The location is less than ideal, board members said, because to win consent from nearby homeowners and the Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks, they agreed to ban carnival rides, concerts and sale of alcoholic drinks. Those were the major money-makers at past fairs.
The fair, scheduled for July 14 to 16, will be restricted to such traditional country fair offerings as livestock exhibits, harvest celebrations, banjo contests, lumberjack competitions and craft booths.
A year ago, the fair was ousted from Cal State Northridge after 13 years to make way for campus expansion. A tentative agreement to use a 30-acre cornfield at Pierce College fell through after Woodland Hills homeowners and the Los Angeles Community College District objected, saying the fair did not fit the college’s master plan.
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