K is for ?

Yesterday the Capital Ex folks announced their new fair name...K-Days!  The people have spoken, the vote was a landslide.  Now tonight they are asking what the K in the name should stand for. Huh???  I thought it was for Klondike!?  It seems the fair folks really really don't want to go back to that old theme. 

I don't really care, but what I do know is that if all you are going to be is a skeezy midway with some bad food then you won't be a world class event.  You will just be an amped up version of the rides that do the circuit at the mall parking lots. 

Calgary isn't too embarrassed to have a cowboy and rodeo theme.  Actually it seems that it is a huge success...people wearing their white stetsons and playing cowboy.  It seems to attract tourists and seems to have good recognition.  I can't say I am all that impressed with events like the chuck wagon races but that is a topic for another post.

The point is K-Days needs to develop a theme and stick with it.  Have your midway and fair grounds, but fill it with things for various people.  It used to have gold panning and king of the Klondike, old time dress up and saloon type frivolity.  If that isn't hip enough then come up with something new but stop living in the land of ambiguity!

Anyway here is another blog post that kind of sums it up.