Crookwell Show will open its gates for the annual agricultural show after organisers made the challenging decision to resume next year.
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In 2020, the Show was one of the last to be held in NSW before the pandemic stopped the world. New president of the Crookwell Agricultural, Pastoral and Horticultural Society Ken McCallum said organisers had remained "optimistic" for its return.
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Mr McCallum said the Society wasn't planning on running a Show until the NSW Government decided to ease restrictions on the number of attendees.
In November, Deputy Premier John Barilaro said work was underway to ensure Covid-19 safe measures were in place for regional shows to take place to allow up to 5000 people at any given time to attend.
"It's meant that we could plan a show, when we weren't planning on it. We were always going to leave our decision to the last minute, in the hope that an announcement like this would come," Mr McCallum said.
The Crookwell Show will celebrate 143 years of agricultural shows in 2021, and its return would lift the spirits of businesses who rely on trade at the event, and for the attendees.
"We think it's important for the Show to go ahead, for the community," he said.
"There are businesses that rely on country shows, and the Show has always been an important get together for farmers, and that is more important than ever before."
Mr McCallum said that planning had already begun, albeit with the introduction of Covid-19 safe measures, such as the introduction of QR codes to record the contact details of attendees and extra cleaning of high contact surfaces.
He said that the Show's schedule would go on "mostly unchanged", with the only likely cancellation to be the sports shear event.
The NSW government was working with the Royal Agricultural Society of NSW to explore options for the 2021 Sydney Royal Easter Show.