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Get ready! The county fair is a go!
Fair board making plans for the 2021 ‘gathering under the oaks’
By Kevin Mertens - Staff Writer | Feb 28, 2021
Mark your calendars for July 28-31, for the return of the Faribault County Fair after a one year hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic. It will be Faribault County’s 160th county fair.
“All the counties in the State are currently going forward with their plans for having fairs this year,” Faribault County Fair secretary Robin Stenzel says. “We have to prepare and plan like it is going to happen.”
Howard Steele, a Milton resident, spoke to the council and said he was “vehemently opposed to the term ‘united community’ being used to describe the city of Milton.” Steele said the word, by definition, was loaded with political connotations and not appropriate to describe the diverse political viewpoints in the city of Milton.
“I think definitions are important. … In this case, especially since we’re talking about a political body, the city of Milton and the council, I think the more appropriate definition (of the word ‘united’) is being joined together politically,” Steele said. “So I oppose the use of the word ‘united’ when it is used to describe the city of Milton.”