Tehama District Fair ponders date change

The Tehama District Fair in Red Bluff has been seeking locals' opinion as to whether to change its dates from late September.

Reports Julie Zeeb at the Daily News:

The Tehama District Fair board discussed initial results of community outreach to decide whether to move the September fair to an earlier month.

Surveys were posted on the Tehama District Fair Facebook page in November, on the Red Bluff is My Town Facebook page, Twitter and homepage of the Daily News website redbluffdailynews.com.

The results were split almost evenly on the Tehama District Fair page, Fair CEO Mark Eidman said. While 569 people viewed the survey, only 27 participated through leaving comments, he said.

Red Bluff is My Town put forth two comments wanting a later fair date and Twitter only yielded one comment for summer.

The Daily News survey had about 92 viewers of which 35 percent said to leave the fair as is while 64 percent said move it to summer.

Remember the Tehama fair used to be held in July but they moved it to September because they thought it wouldn't be as hot. To avoid losing fairgoers because kids are in school, thwy started doing an education day, which the Capital Press has covered.

For what it's worth, I kind of like having the fair in late September. It's sort of the last big event of the summer around these parts. But I'm just one fairgoer, and I didn't vote in their survey.