Endless Summer Nights at the fair

Fair attendance to top 25,000 for 4-day run

Record sales and increased attendance plus favorable weather added up to “Endless Summer Nights” at the Palouse Empire Fair.

Although the weather was cool on Wednesday, Sept. 3, by Thursday, skies had cleared and temperatures warmed.

“We’ll bust 25,000 (attendance) by all financial indications,” Palouse Empire Fair Manager Bob Reynolds said Tuesday morning.

Reynolds said Saturday’s attendance was the “largest crowd we’ve had in the last seven years.”

Reynolds also noted that every vendor had record sales during the fair.

“It was the ‘Perfect Storm’,”...