Amador County – The Amador County Fair wrapped up an important year with rises in gate attendance, and also the amount of income in the sale of stock, and crowned the 2011 Fair Queen, who was also the Queen of the Ione Home Coming.

Amador Fair CEO Troy Bowers said “it was everything we expected and more than we hoped for,” as the Amador County Fair wound down Sunday evening. Attendance for the first three days was trending higher with an increase in attendance of 37 percent over 2010 on Thursday. Attendance was up 16 percent on Friday and 6 percent on Saturday.

“With parking, carnival and concessions all showing gains, the support of the county for their hometown Fair was readily apparent,” Bowers said. Final numbers will not be available until later in the week.

The annual Junior Livestock auction also showed a significant increase with a gross sale of nearly $322,000 for 214 lots sold. The gross in 2010 was about $276,000 for 250 lots sold.

The other highly acclaimed contest of the 2011 Fair was the Miss Amador County Scholarship Competition. Kylie Ohm was named Miss Amador County. Ohm earlier this year was also selected as the 2011 Ione Home Coming Queen.

Ohm’s court of the Amador County Fair was made up of Julianne Nevin, Chelsey Anderson, and Morgan Hirschel.

Bowers said with the four-day party for 30,000 people behind them, the Amador County Fair staff is still hard at work tearing down, cleaning up, writing checks for entry winners, and returning hundreds of exhibits.

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