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| - Yes, the fair is held in the most rundown location possible. For what is being charged in admission, rides and food, some of that money should be going into fixing such a dump. But my beef is with the culinary competition, so my two stars are referring to the people who are in charge of that.
I've been entering the competition for nearly ten years and winning ribbons. You send in a fee per entry, spend weeks or even months perfecting recipes, spend money on ingredients and carriers to deliver the entries, take an hour driving them over- and then the people in charge put someone else's name on your prize winning cake. I found my cake in the case with a blue ribbon on it and someone else's name on it. So I asked to have the problem fixed, while another competitor waited to speak to someone because there was a blue ribbon sitting between her entry and another, so it was impossible to tell who had won.
The fact that I had a picture of the full cake on my phone and the culinary volunteer agreed it was the cake on display didn't solve it. Talking to the Culinary Coordinator Danielle Philips, who said she was aware of mess-ups with the entries and blamed her staff, then said she going right over to the display to fix it, and promised I would receive my blue ribbon, didn't change it. Speaking to the fair coordinator a week later didn't change it. I attended the fair multiple times and the wrong name remained in place. I never received the ribbon, and I won't bother entering the competition this year if Danielle Philips is in charge again.
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