Traverse County Fair Arts and Cultural Heritage Grant
To enhance Traverse County Fair's ability to host arts and cultural heritage programming by constructing a performance space.
These amounts are appropriated to the commissioner of agriculture for grants to county agricultural societies to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage as embodied in its county fairs. The grants shall be in addition to the aid distributed to county agricultural societies under Minnesota Statutes, section 38.02. The commissioner shall award grants as follows: (1) $700,000 each year distributed in equal amounts to each of the state's county fairs to enhance arts access and education and to preserve and promote Minnesota's history and cultural heritage;
Collect comments from audiences and those performing in the new space.
Many positive comments. Structure used during the fair and also for Wheaton's 125th celebration. The Tri-State band and the Golden Chords performed during the Wheaton celebration.
Traverse County Agricultural Society
Ronald McCullar
Janet Koch
Betty Beal
Ted Siltman
Mark Hormann
Ryan Deal
Bradley Beal
John Bridgen
Dale Vatthauer
Teri Abraham
Shirley Van Buren
Paul Heck