Schools, state fair could work in sync

To the editor:

To better break the school year between its two semesters, how about the governor tell our state fair to start and end earlier or he moves Christmas into the following year.

The latter should please businesses more because sacred Black Friday certainly cannot be moved and a later Christmas would mean more shopping days and dollars spent over the extended period between the two. Also, this would crowd down Lenten fasting and abstinence in preparation for Easter and thus fewer days of people avoiding buying and eating pork and beef.

In addition, the governor could order that all of Iowa's high school graduation ceremonies would be held off until they were jointly celebrated in conjunction with our state fair. Not only would this boost fair attendance, but a newly instituted increase in gas tax would put additional money into the pockets of the road construction industry that would be rung up at the pump by all of the families and friends driving to the state fair graduation. Just think what it could do for cotton candy sales were it to be produced and sold in varying school colors.

Sam Osborne

West Branch