DISTRICT 11 AT THE TANANA VALLEY STATE FAIR

Each year at the Tanana Valley State Fair the Fairbanks Republican Women's Club pays for a booth to allow citizens of Interior Alaska to have access to the elected Republican representatives of state and federal government to ask questions, give opinions, and have a one on one dialogue. Each election district is allocated a day to man the booth and be on the hot seat. August 12th was District 11's day and we had a great time meeting people, answering their questions, and taking their criticisms. We look forward to this every year.


Jane Pearson and Sue Stancliff visit with Representative Coghill at the fair booth.
Jane is a legislative aide for Representative Jay Ramras and Sue is a legislative aide for Representative Mike Kelly.






The visit with Rep. Coghill was after Sue and Jane braved a ride on the Ejector. In the picture to above, they are getting strapped in for the ride.







Headed to the top for the drop!





Who's screaming now!!! They're not scared, they are just mad because they just spent $25.00 a piece for a 30 second thrill.

No that is not a water pistol; it is a battery operated fan to keep Jeannie Ostnes and Del Moss cool while volunteering in the Fairbanks Republican Women's Fair Booth. Friday, August 12th was District 11's day to man the booth. A special thanks to Jeannie, Del, Representative Coghill, Karen Lidster, and Representative Jay Ramras (District 10) for manning the booth.

We registered a few new voters and encouraged people to enter the "Count the Kisses Contest". In the past, Fairbanks Republican Women had a jar of jelly beans to guess. Whoever guessed closest to the number of jelly beans in the jar won the jar of jelly beans. This year, they filled a large flower vase with candy kisses!!! One gentleman stopped by to guess and said, "What do I get if I win?" We told him, "the candy", and he said, "sweet". As of yet, we don't know who the winner is, but will post the winner when we find out.

Update on Winner: I have been informed we can't report the name of the winner, because IRS would probably audit this individual for not reporting a flower vase full of Candy Kisses!

A light moment between Jerry and Janice Cleworth and Representative Jim Holm and Marcia Holm. Could it be a pay off or does "the buck stops here?" Knowing both of these guys, the buck stops here.

Thank you, Fairbanks Republican Women, for sponsoring the fair booth and allowing Interior Alaskans the opportunity to meet their legislators and candidates face to face to ask questions and give their opinions.

A special thanks to Eileen Van Wyhe and Connie Miller for organizing the booth each year and giving Alaskans a forum to meet their elected officials one on one.

David Leone dropped by to bring Representative Coghill up to date on the Fairbanks North Star Borough's efforts to make sure transit buses are not running empty, but instead, are moving people to where they need to go.

We also had many tourists stop by asking questions about ANWR and state politics. The price of gas is bringing people to our side on this issue. We encourage you to contact relatives and friends in the lower forty-eight and have them contact their Congressional delegation to encourage them to support the opening of ANWR.

By the way, the battery operated fans were being distributed by GVEA which was right across from The Fairbanks Republican Women's booth. They fans were gone in a little over thirty minutes. People were trying to keep cool!!!!!!!!!!!!