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Getting real everyday wrote on Mar 17, 2009 6:08 PM:

" KS can you relate your sources as to the majority of Fair members? I feel you have not a clue. Membership was told at the annual meeting without any objections, some small special interest members may not agree, they are few in numbers but big in mouths. Horse food or education, smart thing, education. "




ValleySon wrote on Mar 17, 2009 8:45 AM:

" Ok, here's a simple solution. Some say that this sale is necessary, others say it is against the wishes of the majority of Fair members. Well, the majority of Fair members, I suspect, have no idea what is actually going on and what is at stake. So, why not give the Fair members the best arguments from both sides, then take a VOTE. Not that I want to hold them up as a shining example, but MEA does this with big questions. They lie and mislead first, but they still vote. Why not truthful debate and a member vote? "




NiT Studint wrote on Mar 16, 2009 7:51 PM:

" The State fair can get by without nit. They already have a paving company in there pocket. I wanted some real experience. Go some were else nit. "




KS Fitz. wrote on Mar 16, 2009 2:53 PM:

" This sale goes against the wishes of most fair Members and is not in best interest of our unique Agriculturally based community.
Though NIT is a respected company with a worthwhile and productive mission, the land should be retained for agricultural use. NIT can build elsewhere and The fair can still have a reciprocal , mutually beneficial arrangement with NIT doing the fairground rehabilitation. "




Yeaper wrote on Mar 16, 2009 10:53 AM:

" Palmer resident, the buffer was to provide a division between Homes and fair, NIT does provide exactly what the buffer was intended to do, there is no lie here, only your misinformation or lack of total information. NEXT "




Palmer Resident. wrote on Mar 15, 2009 10:50 PM:

" The Fair bought the property to build a larger buffer around itself. To keep the community at bay so to speak. It appears they lied to us. If NIT is allowed to buy the forty acres half of it will be dug up, moved around, beep beep go the backup alarms. What a lovely neighbor they would be. Bad idea ASF board of directors. "




Palmeranian wrote on Mar 15, 2009 1:56 PM:

" Land grows hay for horses for fun, we don't eat horses do we? What did you say to the Hamiltons, the Depriest & farm families that sold to development? The fair, a business, traded for this land that was near sold to NIT 5 years ago. The deal closed one hour earlier with Ak Demo, if the Fair had not traded with Ak Demo they could have dug it up Hamilton farm and placed fill in it, or NIT would already have their nice campus, the fair did not sell farmland, farmers sold out. Blame them. "




john deere wrote on Mar 15, 2009 12:08 PM:

" The imporantance agriculture has on a community will always be dismissed by people who live in apartments and think milk comes from a carton and meat is bloodless.
How said for these ignorant, gray souls.
Hope I live long enough to see them want their last meal. "




Boo wrote on Mar 15, 2009 11:49 AM:

" Springer, what will happen to the fair, NOTHING. The fair financially supports farming so many ways, this cost the fair, farming brings no income to the fair, only drains the resources. As for the school, the truck driving school already there, this is a campus with Dorms and trades training, maybe you need to know the facts not hearsay, lots of lies all around the area that are simply creating unneeded problems and turmoil, are you spreading such lies? Anyway it is private property you know! "




Springer resident wrote on Mar 15, 2009 10:33 AM:

" What will happen to the fair if the farms surrounding the fair go out of business?
The land will get occupied by people who dont want to plan their day around the fair traffic. Will the fair pay for the road upgrades that will become necessary as the traffic level increases in the area? Isnt it in the fairs best interest to support the farmers that surround the fair grounds rather than to drive them away.
Can the Springer loop handle 1000 student truck drivers? If the neighbors complain to DOT what happens to NIT? lets keep the farms! "




Taxpayer sick and tired wrote on Mar 15, 2009 9:45 AM:

" Duffy says. money in the stimulus for a Agricultural Processing and Product Development Center: Build a plant to package and distribute Valley-grown vegetables throughout the Railbelt. These farmers will take any handout offered and your tax dollars are like not at work for the community, only for farmers, only for special interest, that makes me livid . "




Boo wrote on Mar 15, 2009 9:34 AM:

" Hay is grown all over to feed HORSE, not people, thus most farmland feeds pleasure animals, not people. Many of us sick and tired of all the help the poor farmers attitude, they get tax breaks, car tags, IRS deductions, many are simply freeloaders, some are hard working and really produce others just have a small garden they call a farm. NIT brings security to the youth and why should they go anywhere they don't want to be, this is a free country the last time I checked. "




Farm lady wrote on Mar 15, 2009 9:30 AM:

" This letter is stupid and the author does not understand that the fairs proximity to the campus is essential for the partnership, you still miss the point that this is private property, the unknown author apparently just looking to stir the mob scene of farmer a very small special interest group that are tax subsidized. "