Editor,

As I am looking back on the fair, I want to make sure to send out a thank you to all of the wonderful and supportive people who helped make it happen.

There is the Whidbey Island Fair board and association. They devoted many hours to helping get it all ready, keep it going and getting it wrapped up and packed away.

Then there are all of the amazing volunteers, superintendents, gate help, ticket sellers, set up help, cleanup crew, the Fairgrounds Port employees and our favorite handyman Scot. As well as the whole team clean! Then you have our very supportive community sponsors, and we couldn’t put on this Fair without their support.

I would like to add that all of the following businesses that donated money, time, or in kind donations to help out this year. Whidbey Island Bank, Hansons, Frontier Building Supply, Thelen Construction, Payless Foods, Clinton Food Mart, Sebo’s Do It Center, Bayview Appliance and Mattress, Edward Jones and Associates, Sound Business Services, Diamond Rentals, Sunbelt Rentals, DCA Tax Planning LLC, Barn Dog NW, Back in the Woods Construction, Elite Concrete, Puget sound Concrete Pumping, Toby’s Tavern, Skagit Farmers Supply, J. Johnson Insurance, South Whidbey Parks and Recreation and Thirsty Crab.

My sincerest thanks to all of you, I can’t wait for next year!

Nancy Thelen

Whidbey Island Fair manager