ALBANY — Skip Nichols has served as manager of the Southwest Georgia Regional Fair, planned and executed with an uncanny precision each year for the last 73 by the Exchange Club of Albany, for the last 20 or so fairs. He admits that organizing the extravaganza, which kicks off a six-day run Tuesday at 3 p.m., has come with its own unique challenges each year that he’s been involved.

But it’s the fun — the sheer joy that the fair brings to tens of thousands of southwest Georgians each year — that keeps Nichols coming back.

“You know what, it’s the fun that keeps me going with this,” the businessman and “lifetime Exchange Club member” said Monday as he tried to crank a stubborn backhoe

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