FAIR BOARD HISTORY
In the 1950s, a meeting of businessmen and interested exhibitors was held to appoint a committee of fifteen members to manage the Nez Perce County Fair. The Fair continued with a 21-person committee acting as the Fair Board. In 1953, there was a new move to get a county fair board founded under the Idaho Code. The stack of petitions representing 4,500 county residents was appealing for a permanent County Fair Board. Herbert Powell (third from the right), Chairman of the Lewiston Chamber of Commerce Petition Committee, is presenting them to the Nez Perce County Commissioners in the photo below. (Left to Right) Bert Schroeder, J.D. Richardson, Wayne Talbott, Powell, and Art Barnes and Kermit Malcom of the Chamber of Commerce, who presented the petitions to the Commissioners at the County Courthouse on December 15, 1953.
FIRST APPOINTED FAIR BOARD MEMBERS
Ed C. Rettig 1954-1972 John Thiessen 1954-1978 | Art Barnes 1954-1959 Herb Powell 1954-1978 | Hugh Parks 1954-1975 Jack Clifford 1954-1958 | Buford Webb 1954-1976 Joe Dahmen 1954-1955 |
OTHER FAIR BOARD MEMBERS AND DATES SERVED
Norman Fitzsimmons 1955-1959 Loren Kambitsch 1955-1978 Joe Thometz 1955-1969 George Wilkinson 1958-1977 Gerald Storer 1959-1982 Darrell Kirby 1977-1981 Peter Wilson 1978-1985 William Jones 1981-1986 Margaret Burman 1978-1993 | Dick Wagner 1979-1984 James Hamm 1983-1984 Larry Vincent 1984-1992 Mark Mustoe 1984-1990 Bud George 1985-1986 Bill McVicars 1985-1990 Mary Dau 1986-1998 George Brockman 1987-1999 Robert Prasil 1987-1991 | Dale Silflow 1991-2007 Mike Lorenz 1991-2011 Dan Faller 1992-2009 Bruce Boyer 1993-2016 Janet Sprute 1994-2020 Gwen Heitstuman 1999-2023 Marion (Buck) Kirk 2000-2008 Kim Cannon 2008-present Jeff Seipert 2009-2013 | Tony Havens 2010-present Bob Carlton 2012-present Art King 2013-2017 Paul Boyd 2017-present Russie Hastings 2018-2021 Leslie Smith 2020-present Joanie Wittman 2022-present Patti Schmitt 2023-present |