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 Holabird AdvocateProviding all the news we see fit to print since 2002!Thursday, August 08, 2002 VOL. I Issue 8E THE HOLABIRD ADVOCATE TOPS 40 READERS !!!!!! NOW MORE READERS THAN TOWN HAS RESIDENTS The Circulation Department of The Holabird Advocate's latest research shows that we have 43 readers that have logged on to the paper. As previously reported Holabird and the surrounding area has a population of 38.It is our fervent hope is that everyone who reads The Holabird Advocate feels like Holabird is their hometown. Our goal was to have 38 readers by years end. You never know about these things. The sky is the limit. As for now we'll just let those numbers climb. Perhaps we'll have 1700 readers by next year. 1700 is the number of people in Hyde County. That will be our next goal. Of Course we owe a debt of thanks to you, the present readers. we must be getting a good deal of word of mouth advertising, the best there is. STEPHANIE HERSETH AHEAD IN STRAW POLL In a straw poll taken during the South Dakota State Fair, which was sponsored by the South Dakota Farmer's Union, Stephanie Herseth recieved 66% of the vote. Her opponent in the race for South Dakota's lone U.S. House seat, Gov. Bill Janklow, recieved only 32% of the polls votes. The Farmer's Union has done this poll at the State fair since 1962 and has been 100% accurate about 80% of the time. Ms. Herseth has been endorsed by The Holabird Advocate and it's Publisher, the courageous, dynamic Jerry Hinkle. All of us at The Holabird Advocate are more hopeful than ever about Ms. Herseth's chances to win this uphill contest. STATE FAIR PULLS AN ENRON by Jerry Hinkle, Special to The Holabird Advocate The South Dakota State Fair in Huron has had problems for many years. It has been poorly managed and and just as poorly attended. And every attempt to improve the Fair has only worsened the situation. The Fair was always on the week before Labor Day. That is until a couple of years ago, when it was moved back a month, to the last week in July. Last year the Fair Managers were baosting record crowds. People who actually went to the Fair wondered where the crowd was. The lack of media attention this year was hard to ignore. The only media coverage of the Fair came from The Plainsman, Huron's only paper. They boasted a 2% increase in the Fair's attendance. So they had another record year, right.WRONG!!!!! It seems that last years numbers were grossly overstated instead of 180,000 people attending, there was only 108,000 people, give or take a bit. This year's attendance figures showed 110,000 people, give or take a bit. I don't know how to fix the Fair, but the early start is killing an already dying Fair. If I could do anything to fix it, I'd put it back to the week before Labor Day. I'd also cut the ticket price in half. The worst part about the Fair is the fact that it costs $4 each to get into the Fair and everything at the fair is expensive from the food, drink and the parking. It hurts to say it but perhaps the State Fair is a dinosaur that needs to be extict and we are keeping it alive for sentimental reasons or something. I could be wrong, and for the first time in my life I sure hope I am.
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