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• n  an open area for holding fairs or exhibitions or circuses

• We landed at the fairground down in Costa Mesa.
• Maintaining the theme park complete with zoo, movie theater and fairground swallowed up about $5 million annually.
• The cash-for-clunkers program has meant more cars going straight to the junkyard, rather than making a stop at the county fairground.

News & Articles

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• Five reasons to attend the Brockton Fair
  The city’s signature summer event, the annual Brockton Fair, will run this year from Thursday through July 7. There are surprises and additions this year, according to Tom Clifford, the property manager of the fairgrounds. But some old favorites, including five nights of fireworks (June 29 and July 3, 4, 5 and 6) are back. The Demolition Derby will also return this year.
  June 23, 2013 - The Brockton Enterprise
• United Way army of 800 volunteers re-vamp Muskegon County Fairgrounds
  An army of about 800 volunteers replaced toilets, poured concrete, put up fences and spread buckets of paint on structures at the Muskegon County fairground on Friday.
  June 21, 2013 - The Muskegon Chronicle
• Pulaski County Fair will take place on fairgrounds despite flooding
  Pulaski County Fairground officials say --despite flooding-- they'll be ready for the 4H and Community Fair.
  June 19, 2013 - WNDU 16 South Bend

Quotes

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• Michael Laws in TV3 News
  The city's mayor Michael Laws called Mr Richdale a "fairground entertainer with a chainsaw" and said the carvings were always meant to be temporary.
• Ernie Merrick in Sydney Morning Herald
  My family are fairground people,Merrick said. "My grandfather had a circus, so we are travelling people. They are gypsy background, we are more fairground : my mother was a circus acrobat. My father's side were more sidestalls, so we are...
• Astrid Kirchherr in Xfm Online
  Because they looked so rough and their music was raw, I thought of a suitable background for them,Kirchherr recalled, "I took them to the fairground in Hamburg because of all the steel there, which suited their image. They never smiled....