Farm-City Days coming one week early in 2016

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February 8, 2016 - 12:00 AM

Iola’s Farm-City Days will come a bit earlier in the fall schedule.
Farm-City Days Committee members voted recently to push the annual fall festival up a week, to the weekend of Oct. 8.
The move was necessary, committee chairman Aaron Franklin said, in order to align schedules with Ottaway Amusements.
The Wichita-based carnival company has been a part of Farm-City Days past, but the committee has had to look elsewhere because of schedule conflicts in recent years.
“They’re a popular, family-oriented company,” Franklin said. “We’d been wanting to push the schedule earlier, anyway.”
Another carnival-related change is in store for 2016. The carnival will not open until Oct. 7, a Friday. In years past the carnival opened as early as Wednesday on Farm-City Days week.
“We just didn’t get the turnout for the carnival early in the week we wanted,” Franklin said.
Committee members already are in the midst of putting together plans for the 2016 celebration, which runs Oct. 6-9.
Several events introduced in 2015, including a medallion hunt and Sunday farm tour, will be back this year, Franklin said.

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