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Roy Anderson describes himself and his wife, Barbara, as an RV couple.

After 30 years of marriage labeled them empty nesters — with kids fanned out in Omaha, Connecticut and Illinois — the Andersons determined to travel more.

“We’ve since wintered in Texas, been all over the Midwest and up north and usually take a two-week trip once a year throughout the country,” Roy said.

Roy and Barbara, of Grand Island, serve as campground hosts at the RV campground at the Nebraska State Fair.

Though the Andersons have lived in Grand Island since 1971, they’re looking forward to their second year spent camping at the State Fair.

Their experience on the road, coupled with a good lay of the land, makes them naturals for the additional title of Nebraska State Fair’s campground host couple — a joint position for which they were nominated and gladly accepted prior to the first run of the fair in their own backyard.

But this year’s fair is likely to keep Roy and Barbara hopping. Jaime Parr, facility director for the Nebraska State Fair, said the recent addition of 80 new pads with access to utilities (sewer, power and water) brings the total number of RV parking spots to 130, a substantial increase from only 50 last year.

And that’s just the beginning. Next year will see 60 to 80 more, bringing the total number of lots close to 200. Parr said that amount puts Grand Island’s facilities in line with what was available in Lincoln.

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Plans are moving forward for an RV park at Seawolf Park in Galveston Texas, a project estimated to cost nearly $2 million.

The Park Board of Trustees has approved $120,000 from Federal Emergency Management Agency public works funds to pay for an architectural company’s engineering and administration fees to get the project started.

In a budget update to the park board, Randall-Porterfield Architects estimated the RV campground will cost $1.89 million and include 44 RV spaces.

Within the next six months, the park board, which manages and promotes some of the city’s tourism industry, will be ready to accept bids on construction, Lou Muller, executive director of the park board, said.

The RV park will be developed on about 4 acres left of the entrance to the park and west of the parking lot at Seawolf Park, a popular fishing spot and home to naval exhibits such as the USS Cavalla.

“While Dellanera RV Park is very popular because of its location right on the beach, the Park Board of Trustees and staff feel that an RV park at Seawolf will be equally, if not more, popular because of the additional recreational opportunities it will offer,” Muller said.

The board expects to break ground on the campground in the spring and complete work in February 2012.
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ST. JOHNS – Faced with dwindling revenues and a lackluster economy, the city is looking at scaling back, or even closing, the RV park at the the fairgrounds.

The city’s money-losing RV campground is also being criticized by operators of private RV parks in the city who are saying the city should not be competing with them.

Last year, (fiscal year 2008-09) the city’s RV park did make money ($7,566) driven primarily by construction workers staying there, but this year it’s $14,439 in the red. Last year’s profit was the first time the park’s revenues have ever exceeded expenses. This year park use has declined by 55 percent, according to Ross Carpenter, the city’s director of parks and recreation.

In the 2008-09 the park generated $57,245 wit expenses of $49,379. To date this year, the fiscal year ends June 30, the park generated $21,486 in revenues with $35,915 in expenses.

The city RV park’s rates are $300 per month, $16 per night or $90 per week, which includes electricity, water and sewer.

The RV park was created to provide a campground for special events, horse racing and other livestock shows. In recent years the park has a dozen or so special events each year, including two high school rodeos, three barrel races, two gun shows, a pony club event and horse racing.
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