<div dir="ltr">One shift, one ticket left:  Friday, August 24 from 5-9 with another volunteer.  <div><br></div><div>Here is information about buses and parking ( a new feature for volunteers- more about that later)  </div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Park & Ride buses start at <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">8:00 a.m.</span></span> ever day.  Park & Ride locations out of church lots start at <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">1pm</span></span> on Sundays.  </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Metro Transit State Fair Express Service (where customers pay $5 for roundtrip rides) start at <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">9am</span></span> weekdays and <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">8am</span></span> weekdays and Labor Day.  </span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">SouthWest Transit and MVTA bus service operates services at <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">8am</span></span> daily.</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">With that said, we came up with two Vendor/Concessionaire Lots yesterday, Thursday, August 2:</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">North Vendor/Concessionaire Lot:</span></b><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Living Word Church</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=640+Prior+Ave+N,+55104&entry=gmail&source=g">640 Prior Ave N, 55104</a></span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Weekdays & Saturday <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">5am to 1am</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Sundays <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">1pm to 1am</span></span></span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><b style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">South Vendor/Concessionaire Lot</span></b><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Ford Plant</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">966 S. Mississippi Blvd, 55116 (Two blocks south of Ford Pkwy. on Mississippi Blvd.)</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:10pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Hours of Operations <span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0"><span class="gmail-aQJ">5am to 1am.</span></span>  All 12 days of the fair.</span><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"> </span><br style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.800000190734863px">Dawn Flinn, the DNR fair coordinator:  </span><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">We will be putting something together that has all the parking info in one spot once the fair creates a map/s of the new vendor lots. You can then share that with your staff.</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(31,73,125);font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;font-size:11pt">So please check these list serves for information regarding MOU at the fair.  </span></div><div><font color="#1f497d" face="Calibri, sans-serif"><span style="font-size:14.666666984558105px">( of interest but not exciting- the whooping cranes are exciting!)  </span></font></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="font-size:12.800000190734863px"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif;color:rgb(31,73,125)"><u></u> </span></p></div>