Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has announced the re-appointment of Gary Hayakawa to the Orange County Fair & Exposition Center Board of Directors. This will be Mr. Hayakawa’s third term — he previously served from 1992 to 2001. He will serve a four-year term and succeeds Patricia Velasquez, who was appointed in 2001.

Mr. Hayakawa, of Irvine, is president of Three Star Nursery, Inc., a Fountain Valley wholesale nursery. He has been president for the past 15 years and his tenure with Three Star Nursery spans almost three decades. A horticulturist by trade, Hayakawa has virtually grown up in the nursery business. He is involved in many related organizations including the Orange County Chapter of California Association of Nurseries and Garden Centers, of which he is a past president.

Also, he currently is president of the Centennial Farm Foundation, president of Friends of UC Extension, vice president of the Orange County Farm Bureau, and past president of the Japanese American Republicans, where he is still active in the organization as part of the board of directors. Additionally, Hayakawa is a member of Veterans of Foreign Wars and Disabled American Veterans.

Hayakawa looks forward to his involvement again with the organization to help the fair industry “assist the younger generation through agriculture education.”

The Fair Board is composed of nine volunteer members whose role is to set and approve policies for the Orange County Fair & Exposition Center.