12 Fire Departments To Reap Half Of County Fair Profits

The Gazette Virginian
Volunteer Fire Departments will reap the benefits from profits made during the 2008 Halifax County Fair supervisors agreed Monday night,
Following a lengthy discussion, board members voted 5-1 to allocate 50 percent of the profits from the annual fair that runs from Sept. 30-Oct. 4 to the 12 county fire departments.
ED-4 Supervisor Doug Bowman opposed the motion. ED-1 Supervisor R. E. “Dickie” Abbott and Chairman William Fitzgerald were absent.
Last month, Supervisor Vice-Chairman James Edmunds asked if profits above expenses from operating the county fair could be designated to support the dozen local fire departments.