WBIR-TV – Knoxville
Troutfest 2010 attracted lots of tourists to Townsend and netted tens of thousands of dollars this weekend for the Great Smoky Mountains National Park.
“We doubled the number of vendors compared to last year’s Troutfest,” said Byron Begley, chairman of Troutfest 2010. “We don’t have all the numbers in right now, but a rough guess is that at Friday’s banquet we raised more than $35,000 and we also sold about $15,000 worth of tickets to the expo. We increased our expenses this year, too. We’ll know by the end of the week, but probably around $30,000 will go to the park’s fisheries department.”
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