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Kyle Parpart rides on The Tornado during the final day of the Muskogee County Fair on Saturday afternoon.
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Published October 04, 2008 11:21 pm -

Last day of fair provides fun, memories


By Wendy Burton
Phoenix Correspondent

Hundreds of families turned out Saturday for the final day of the Muskogee Regional Fair.

Amidst the blaring disco music, punctuated by shattered screams, young and old alike were laughing together.

Fairgoers enjoyed warm, breezy weather and easily avoided the few lingering puddles from Friday night’s rain.

Muskogee resident Adrian Alexander brought two nieces and a nephew to enjoy the rides. He leaned on a fence and watched the kids slide down a 50-foot slide on large burlap sacks. One niece, 6-year-old Jayla Scott, hopped off, grinned, and asked to go again.

“I’m just having fun watching them having fun,” he said.

Alexander attends every year and said he prefers to come at night.

“It’s so much more fun when it’s all lit up,” he said.

He then joined the children on the Avalanche, a spinning, lifting, ride that seemed to attract the longest lines.

Among the Avalanche fans were Zac Dillon and his brother Bradley.

Zac loves the rides, and Bradley loves the food. “I like the foot-long corndogs,” he said “Or were they inch-long?” Bradley asked his mother.

Click here for a photo gallery of the 2008 Muskogee Regional Fair.

Two children played catch with a giant inflatable basketball they won at the shoot-out game while others ducked under the bouncing ball as they ran by. Whole families ran by hand-in-hand, laughing and pointing at all the exhibits, rides and games. One little guy staggered off the Tornado, a little green in the cheeks and with his hand over his mouth, quickly recovered, and begged to go on the spinning chair ride again.

Steven Henderson of Muskogee operated the Funhouse. He works for the fair every year and said this was a particularly good one.



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