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The county fair manager will be terminated on Dec. 10, the third Crown Center employee to lose his job on the heels of an ethics investigation, according to an e-mail he sent to colleagues.
But Hubert Bullard, the fair manager for the past 11 years, is asking the county-owned entertainment venue to keep him for one more year so the fair doesn’t fall apart.
Bullard, Crown Chief Executive Paul Beard and Marketing Director Windy Lawson were suspended Oct. 10 after the county received at least five signed affidavits complaining about their behavior. Beard resigned effective Dec. 31, and Lawson’s resignation became official Friday.
Bullard, according to an e-mail he sent to the Fair Advisory Committee, was reinstated Nov. 10 and was told his contract with the Crown would be terminated 30 days from then.
At least one of the affidavits that led to the ethics investigation accused Bullard and Beard of drinking from a bottle of Jack Daniels in a rental van while returning from Cabarrus County on a business trip with co-workers.
Some members of the 50-member advisory committee said Bullard shouldn’t lose his job. Dorothy Kitchen has worked with the fair for decades. She said it’s not fair to fire Bullard and that the fair will suffer without him.
“Cumberland County Fair, if he does not run it, will go down the tube,” Kitchen said.
