(La Porte County, IN) - There’s going to be a new overhang at the entrance to the La Porte County fairgrounds to replace the one seemingly there for forever that’s falling into disrepair.

 

County Councilman Randy Novak, who’s also member of the Fairgrounds Management and Event Corporation, said the overhang welcoming people to the fairgrounds is no longer structurally sound.

 

“We’re going to replace it,” he said.

 

The La Porte County Commissioners last week approved the request to replace it from Novak, who revealed grants will be used to fund the cost.

 

“The wood is starting to rot away. The steel is getting rusty,” said Commissioner Steve Holifield.

 

Holifield said he wasn’t sure how long the span at the entrance to the fairgrounds has been there but he remembers seeing it on trips to the fair as a child in the late 1970’s.

 

"It moves a little bit when the wind blows.  It's time to replace it with something," he said.

 

Novak said an architect from Westville is working on the design of the new overhang.