A4O-Lancaster Fanning, Saturday, August 12, 2000
Volunteers, Donations Turn Reading
Fairground Front Dream To Reality
At a cost of more than $3 million, the new Reading Fairground which existed only on
paper for the past few years came to fruition, mostly from private donors and the help
of hundreds of volunteers. Photo by Andy Andrews
ANDY ANDREWS
Lancaster Farming Staff
LEESPORT (Berks Co.) In
the brand-new show ring, under
the brand-new pole bam, a
poster, encased in a picture
frame, tells the story of how a
dream was constructed.
The poster has a headline that
reads “A Gift to Reading and
Berks County From the Berks
County Building and Construc
tion Trades Council.”
The same note of thanks on a
banner extends over the side of
the exhibit area thanks for a
job well done, a job that was fin
ished just in time
At a cost of more
than $3 million, the
new Reading Fair
ground which ex
isted only on paper for
the past few years
came to fruition,
mostly from private
donors and the help of
hundreds of volun
teers.
Two pole barns
measuring 125 feet by
60 feet apiece are
joined by a show ring
measuring 60 by 60
feet.
Altogether, the site
of the new Reading
Fair, on County Wel
fare Road and Hill
Top Road on the way
to Berks Heim, encom
passes about 80 acres,
according to Wayne
Readinger, agricul
tural director of the
Agricultural and Hor
ticultural Association
of Berks County.
Some of the acreage
of the Berks County 4-
H Center was used to
house fair activities.
According to the
posters, Jim Reilly and
the Operating Engi
neers Local 542 do
nated more than
$750,000 in free labor
and equipment to fair
ground construction.
Two weeks ago, ac
cording to the fair or
ganizers, before the
start of the fair, an
“assembly line” of
final preparations
were ongoing to finish
the fairground on
time.
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About 60 acres of land were At the start of the fair this
donated from the Berks County week, work was still under way,
Commissioners and the Bern according to John Falter, Berks
Township board of supervisors 4.H agent
and planning. On the poster, Th | Reading Fair is a 146 .
work from at least 17 companies old Berks County tradition,
was done - mostly free of Volunteers stayed up late -
charge. some even began work at 10:30
Some of those involved m , ater at nig g t t 0 fmish in time
construction included the Car- f hi .flair,
penters Local Union 492, the Thoi / h some estimates vary,
Plasterers and Cement Masons . . are i ess than
Local 592, Plumbers Union _ "® in j !L ut on
690, Electrical Wortens
Local 743 more than 300 L,
members from the county build-
ing and construction trades.
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