No Truck & Tractor Pull at this years Fruit & Nut Festival

Posted in: Local | March 16th, 2008

You may have heard that this years 2008 Fruit & Nut Festival in May will not include a Truck & Tractor Pull. This is correct and for a number of reasons. The Hughson High School football field where the Pull is always held is undergoing some improvements that will make it more difficult to put the event on while these improvements continue to be made. The second reason the pull has been eliminated is due to the cost of hiring a company to come in and actually put the pull on. The cost is rather high and the funds must be paid out whether the pull is a success or not. After everything is paid for, the actual money made is normally less than a thousand dollars. It takes a lot of work to get the field ready before the pull, during the pull, and then the return of the field to the way it was prior to the pull. With everything consider, the 2008 Fruit & Nut Festival committee has decided to run without a Truck & Tractor Pull.