Valley Fair in jeopardy

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State agriculture officials are threatening to end the nomadic Valley Fair and disburse its $2.8 million savings to other venues unless its organizers find a more "stable" home, officials said Monday.Dana Bartholomew in the DAily Newsa,.

After the fair's poor turnout this spring at Birmingham High School, the Department of Food & Agriculture has ordered its operators to find a more permanent site.

Failure to find a suitable home could result in the dissolution of the 51st Agricultural District, a nonprofit state agency that launched the San Fernando Valley Fair in 1946.

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