Comments on: Fair Idea Ignored By Commishes

By: Wondering

Wondering — Thu, 05 Oct 2017 02:06:59 +0000

Let’s get some Ada County Commissioners who are not sympathetic to the pathetic Garden City and their wish list to put food and store chains on the fairgrounds, and elect forward thinkers for the property, baseball and horse racing include.

For a quick reality check, when do people get the message that they should be retired? When they are found deceased in their chair?

No positive forward action has occurred on the fairgrounds property for about a decade.

If you have new skills, leadership, and experience, please get yourself elected.

By: 4th-gen Idahoan

4th-gen Idahoan — Tue, 03 Oct 2017 23:14:24 +0000

The old Sterling (?) property on North Cole near Mountain View is supposed to be turned into a historical park. How many of these do we need? I’m okay with some development along Chinden and Glenwood (and I drive through that intersection daily), but would like to see the horse track and paddock area turned into a recreation area (baseball, football, soccer, basketball, tennis) for both schools and the general public.

By: Fair insider

Fair insider — Mon, 19 Mar 2007 14:42:26 +0000

Well…Phil Kushlan used to be on the Expo Idaho board – insisting all the time it was not a conflict of interest. Although the board does not make decisions, they do recommend decisions to Ada commishes and there were certainly valid questions about his interests.

Master planning has been going on repeatedly for Expo Idaho – with very few voices talking about the “pubic interest” in the public’s property.

It’s mainly always been about how to make a lot of money for….and I’m not exactly sure who – not the county that’s for sure.

Plans don’t get very far very fast, no matter the content – not because anyone is holding progress back, but because Expo Idaho doesn’t use taxpayer dollars – so any money to pay for new projects has to be generated and saved first. That’s a tough game when your money-making game is in the entertainment business.

I sure hope that spectacular Boise River view stays in the public’s hands and becomes more public-friendly than the chain link fence folks now see. The horses have the best view!

By: dog

dog — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 18:21:59 +0000

Folks, If you ever get a chance, check out the Redmond OR. county fairgrounds. They did a fantastic job and little ole Redmond maks ours look like an abandoned ghetto project.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 15:22:18 +0000

Check out the Living History Farms at http://www.lhf.org/ in Urbandale/Des Moines, Iowa. Why not a Living History Farm (or whatever) in Boise/Garden City, Idaho? EDITOR NOTE--Our sentiments exactly.

By: Grumpy Old Guy

Grumpy Old Guy — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:11:56 +0000

OK, after further reflection it dawns on me that the City’s poop farm operation could be combined with the historic agricultural exhibits. Instead of fire-works for the Independence Day celebration, we could watch the Commissioners spread it around thickly – just to see how it is done.

By: Jo

Jo — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:48:01 +0000

Rotsa ruck turning the fairgrounds into an educational operation. These days such ops are usually ugly theme parks, overdone and commercialized. We don’t need another one:
Boise city itself is becoming a theme park, controlled by and dedicated to the super rich developer millionnaires who belong to the Arid Club (a perfect moniker for that club, by the way).

By: Grumpy Old Guy

Grumpy Old Guy — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 03:44:20 +0000

OK, I think you’ve missed an obvious analogy in this one, Guardian. The slave “cabins” in the ole south are better historic places to compare here. Mayhap we could have some Native American Reservation Units as the “Northern equivalent” to show how things really were, and are. Oh, I know, farm wagon races we could wager on, and Old West Shoot outs – if we could suggest the participants and have them use live ammo, I’m sure the NRA would endorse this one with great glee.

By: Max

Max — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:12:21 +0000

Why don’t we get the Simplots, the Yanke’s and the Tertilings together and create a real “old idaho” hertitage park. I would help create it!

They can buy the land from the citizens and make a hertitage park out of it. Then we can go out into the very middle of the country and set aside a very large area (200+ acres) (like a central park in NYC) that would have the fair, expo – yes something that competes with the convention center – yes I know the mayor will upchuck on this) and 15 soccer fields and softball fields.

EDITOR NOTE–You forgot libraries, a parking garage and a TRAIN!

By: Serinekat

Serinekat — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 04:14:54 +0000

I agree with The Guardian… the land down there belongs to the residents and it needs to aimed at the community at large. So far it’s done a mediocore job. The fair is great, the horse racing is fine, my dad loves to drag me to those damn RV shows but I’d love to see that river frontage used and something more permanent and educational down there… the library isn’t too far now and it would definately do well all year with all the schools in the area.

I just think the current grounds, marketing and planning are stuck in the 70s… they aren’t looking forward. And yes… let’s not sell this land off… no more fuel to the building and development fire.