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Local News - Local News - March 14, 2013
SkyFest cancellation not a bad thing

Editor's Notebook
Kim Crompton

I consider myself a seasoned air show junkie, but I'm not lamenting the recently announced cancellation of the popular SkyFest event and Thunderbirds precision flying exhibition that had been set for mid-May at Fairchild Air Force Base.

Visit Spokane representatives probably would have a different view, given the thousands of people the air show always draws to the Spokane area, but I think the cancellation is a positive thing at least in one respect. It provides visible, local evi...


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