POMONA HOST LIONS CLUB CELEBRATES 90 YEARS OF THE LA COUNTY FAIR

With the opening of the 90^th Los Angeles County Fair, the Pomona Host Lions Club is celebrating the part its early members had in the origins of the fair.  The Lions Club, chartered in 1921, was the first community service organization in the Pomona Valley, and its members felt that Pomona needed to have its own local agricultural fair.  The club drafted plans for the fair, and a Lion, who was a reporter for the Progress newspaper wrote articles about the benefits of having a fair.

Lions promoted the fair by handing out windshield stickers and wearing broad sombreros with streaming red ribbons to social and business events.

The club then took the proposal for the fair to the city council, which approved it.  Lou Elmer Sheets, who was then president of the Lions club, became the first president of the Los Angeles County Fair Association.

For more information about the Pomona Host Lions, e-mail pomonahostlions@gmail.com