Source: Dale Kasler, SACRAMENTO BEE, 4/24/20



The corn dogs, blue ribbons and roller-coaster rides will have to wait a year.The 2020 California State Fair was canceled Friday, the latest big event on Sacramento’s entertainment calendar to fall victim to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Cal Expo board of directors voted 7-0 in a video meeting to scrub the fair’s 17-day run, with board members saying they couldn’t be sure that conditions would be safe when the event was set to begin July 17.

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