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Snyder Lions Club urges county help after carnival pullout, asks for lower deposit and damage invoice
Summary
The Snyder Lions Club treasurer told the court the private carnival will not return this year, warned the loss will sharply reduce the club's community donations, and asked the county to lower the $5,000 damage deposit and provide a line-item invoice for prior park damage; commissioners said they would seek an invoice and discuss the issue at the next meeting.
Vivian Mero, identifying herself as treasurer of the Snyder Lions Club, urged Scurry County commissioners to help find a replacement carnival after the regular private carnival operator declined to return this year.
Mero said the Lions Club typically received 15% of the carnival's gross receipts (last year reported in packet as $11,001.58) and that the club budgets annual community donations on that revenue.…
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