CURIOUS MIND COLUMNIST {{description}} Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. Q: Williams-Brackett Is the old fair office still used? A: “Only for storage,” said John Pitz, Twin Falls County Fair manager. The original fair office started out as the residence of the fair manager.

Longtime manager Tom Parks’ lived in the home until the 1950s when the fair built him a new residence where the current office stands. Parks lived in the new home, “until they moved that modular in right along Fair Avenue,” Pitz said. We tore that down and remodeled the house in 1996 when they bought the house on the east side of the fairgrounds.

” An additional five acres came with the house on the east end of the grounds. Parks was the Twin Falls County Fair manager/secretary from 1935 to 1964, when he died. He ran the fair from 1932-35 without financial funds from the county.

Williams-Brackett Q: Why does Tommy’s Express put a black glove on hitches, and why do you place a bag on my rear windshield wiper? A: “Tommy’s Express Car Wash puts a black, latex glove on a hitch if it is greasy. We don’t want the grease to transfer to equipment and then get grease on the cars behind them in the wash,” said Veronica Duran, Tommy’s Express Management Team at the Burley Overland Avenue site. They’ve been operating since April 2022.

According to Tommy’s Express Car Wash Guest Services, “Some vehicle models are extra attracted to our w.