Dursteler named fair manager

Wahkiakum County commissioners appointed Patty Dursteler as manager of the Wahkiakum County Fair.

The Wahkiakum Fair Board recommended she be hired. The fair board held a special meeting Monday night to review applications for the position. Commissioner Mike Backman, the commission's representative on the fair baord, said Dursteler was the only applicant.

Dursteler is a long-time fair volunteer. She is also a member of the fund-raising Wahkiakum Fair Foundation, and she agreed to take a sabbatical from that board while she serves as fair manager.

Commission Chair Blair Brady said Dursteler will have a six month contract with a maximum of 70 hours in two months, in an effort to keep the position from falling under the county's contract with its union employees.