{"id":65953,"date":"2020-03-13T16:42:54","date_gmt":"2020-03-13T22:42:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-ag-expo-postponed-because-of-coronavirus\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T05:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T11:26:30","slug":"montezuma-county-ag-expo-postponed-because-of-coronavirus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/montezuma-county-ag-expo-postponed-because-of-coronavirus\/","title":{"rendered":"Montezuma County Ag Expo postponed because of coronavirus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=7314ed10-94dc-4522-8be6-78c2865c3ea9&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"1600\" height=\"905\" alt=\"The Ag Expo crowd fills the Montezuma County Fairgrounds arena as they check out the booths of various vendors.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Ag Expo crowd fills the Montezuma County Fairgrounds arena as they check out the booths of various vendors.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Journal file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Four States Ag Expo has been postponed because of the threat of the coronavirus, organizers announced Friday.<\/p>\n<p>The event has been rescheduled for Sept. 25-27, said coordinator Cindy Claire.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe wanted to be proactive and not put people in harm\u2019s way,\u201d she said. \u201cThere is a lot of concern out there about large events making things worse. As Ag Expo organizers, we listened and understood the fears, and feel this is the safest decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, the three-day event held at the Montezuma County Fairgrounds attracted 8,400 people.<\/p>\n<p>Clinic organizers and nearly 70 vendors are being contacted about the postponement.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe vendors have been understanding and are glad to come back in September,\u201d Claire said.<\/p>\n<p>Some vendors and volunteers were already canceling due to fears of the coronavirus, a highly infectious respiratory sickness that has caused a worldwide pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>As of Friday afternoon, there were no confirmed cases in Southwest Colorado.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier Friday, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis recommended public gatherings with more than 250 people be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, Montezuma County officials recommended that events involving groups of people not be held for 21 days, and that people should avoid attending events.<\/p>\n<p>Delaying one of the county\u2019s larger events will \u201chave some ripple effect on the economy, but we will make it back up in September,\u201d said county administrator Shak Powers.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:jmimiaga@the-journal.com\">jmimiaga@the-journal.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>rescheduled for September<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202,685,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs","tag-coronavirus-covid-19","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65953"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65953\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90127,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65953\/revisions\/90127"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65953"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}