Booze sales at Walla Walla Fair & Frontier Days changes hands
By Andy Porter, Walla Walla Union-Bulletin, Wash. | |
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Serving will be handled by Oregon Beverage Services of Salem, after The Walla Walla Wagon Wheelers, which for many years handled beer and malt beverage sales, opted to no longer take part.
Oregon Beverage Services was one of four organizations that responded to a request for proposals the Fair & Frontier Days board sent out in May. Under the contract, the company will return 30 percent of its gross sales to the county fairgrounds as well as meet requirements in to licensing, personnel training, monitoring and insurance.
The change from not having the Wagon Wheelers sell beer and malt beverages is difficult but necessary, said
The community service club founded in 1936 has had "a long ongoing partnership" with the Fair & Frontier Days board and the past year has involved a lot of discussions, he said.
Waldron said he and the late former Sheriff
The Wagon Wheelers were offered the contract twice, once because they had the right of first refusal and the second time when the request for proposals was put out. Ultimately the group declined due to not having enough personnel and the need to meet requirements for selling hard liquor.
Liquor sales have been at the fair for the past five years at the concert bar and for the past three years at the outdoor dance event, Waldron and others said. While the Wagon Wheelers handled sales of beer and malt beverages, hard liquor service had been handled by the
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Commission Chairman
"You hate to see the association with the Wagon Wheelers cease, but time moves on," Johnson said.
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