(Des Moines, IA) — The 2022 Iowa State Fair starts Thursday. Gary Slater, the fair’s C-E-O and general manager, says the organization is still recovering financially from the cancellation of the 2020 fair due to the pandemic.
Slater made his comments during an appearance this summer on “Iowa Press” on Iowa P-B-S. The State Fair lost 13 million dollars when the event was cancelled in 2020 but qualified for an eleven-million-dollar “shuttered venues” grant from the federal government.
Attendance was down a bit during last year’s Iowa State Fair, but the eleven-day run of the 2021 State Fair turned a 36 million-dollar profit.
