At high school they allowed the teams to bring coolers that were in another area of the venue but items had to stay there. My son got stopped for taking a bottle of water in to the stands. Be ready because Kids State will be the same with no outside food and checking bags. Now that my son is in college we have not seen this in arenas. So the chamber needs to check again with other venues and what they do for these types of events. We were just at national duals and bags were not checked and teams had coolers in the stands. They also allowed an outside vender in to sell smoothies and added granala bars and fruit to the menu. Unless they only receive a handful of complaints they will not change. Start a petition and have the Salina club start looking for another sight that might get someone to wake up. There is a whole military base do they not have the space?