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Big Valley 4Her Nicole Zoller grooms Sandstorm, a yearling heifer, in preparation for the heifer show in Byemoor on May 19. The process includes blowing off dust, hay and sawdust, a good brushing and buffing.
Byemoor hosts regional 4-H Show and Sale Heifer awards go to Big Valley’s Dolliver Stacey Lavallie INDEPENDENT REPORTER Big Knife’s Kathryn Dolliver swept the major awards at the heifer show at the 4H Beef Show and Sale in Bymoor this past Monday, May 18. Dolliver secured the Grand Champion Female, Reserve Grand Champion Female, and Grand Champion herd awards for her purebred black Simmental heifer.
The annual Show and Sale was hosted this year by the Byemoor 4H club, filling its arena with 4H club ensembles, coloured t-shirts, and cattle of all colour and breed. As Lorna Schilling kept a watchful eye on cows, calves and heifers and 4H kids from all over the Stettler district, she couldn’t help reminiscing about her youth with the organization, and then her second turn with it as a leader with her
own daughters going through the ranks. It’s a story that was shared by almost every leader and assistant leader in the Byemoor arena on Monday, May 18, the first of two days of the big culmination of the 4H Cattle clubs. “The 4H club, for me, is just an opportunity for Alberta’s youth – and the country’s youth – to learn by doing,” Schilling said. “You can develop lots of
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great skills – public speaking, record books, raising and feeding cattle to this stage.” Two of Schillings daughters, Lorisa and Kourtney, are now in their 20s and have taken on leadership roles in the 4H, continuing the family tradition. “For my kids, it’s been the opportunity for jobs and trips, all over the country,” she noted. continued on page 4
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